If I asked how many of you are the regular recipients of junk e-mail (SPAM), I'm guessing I would receive a 100% unanimous response in the affirmative. Unfortunately, SPAM is a problem that is unlikely to go away. Even if legislative action is taken, don't expect it to have any real impact upon the problem. …
Back in December I said that I had left the Microsoft Internet Explorer ranks for the greener browser pastures over at Firefox. I'll admit that I've really enjoyed Firefox as a tool too, but I couldn't resist being an early tester and, you guessed it, an early (part time) adopter of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 …
I’ve had a lot of questions since posting Don’t Loose Your Data about how one goes about backing-up ones personal data. Fortunately the answer is quite simple. The first step is to ensure you have something to backup your data to, such as a second hard disk, CD / DVD, or tape. If you don’t, …
How many times have you reached someone’s voice-mail and thought their message would never end. For those of you that don’t know me, I’m not the most patient person in the world; for those of you that do know me, I guess I’m not telling you anything new. I used to work for a large …
I’ve been computing since my dad bought me a Commodore 64 way back in the early 1980’s. When I started my professional I.T. career later that decade, we were running computers sporting Intel’s 8088 processor, our desktop OS platform was DOS 3x, and our networks were running on ARCnet. Operating Systems continued to evolve and …
Are you burning important data to CD or DVD? According to a recent article in Popular Mechanics, experts at IBM Germany claim that once your data has been burned to a disc, the disc may fail after two to five years. Even though CD manufactures claim longer lifespans, studies have shown that the process of …
If you’re like a lot of us, you have more IDs and passwords than you know what to do with. We all have some type of system for managing these, whether it be jotting the information down on paper, or, perhaps, a spreadsheet. Another method employed by many is to use the same ID and …
Even though you may not use the functionality, chances are that you have a web-enabled cell phone. In the near future, you may dial that same phone in a very different way. ICANN (the folks who are responsible for internet names and addresses) has approved a new web address to serve, in effect, as an …
We have all been warned, time and time again, to be careful of the e-mail we receive, and to not automatically assume a message is authoritative or legitimate just because it looks to be so. I've had a number of incidents over the years where I could have easily been the victim of a phising …
I finally decided to bite the bullet and consolidate all of my domain names under one single roof. I own about 15 domains in total, and they were scattered amongst three or four different registrars, all offering different levels of management capabilities. I really like Yahoo's services, where the majority on my domains were parked, …
