If you have an email account you will receive spam. That’s a fact unless you are very, very careful using it. If you sign up on websites, even respectable ones like big shopping sites, there is a chance that you will eventually receive spam. If you reply to emails or send out emails chance is [...]
The Best Technology for Travelers
You are probably expecting me to go into a review of a new laptop or tablet here, but that’s not at all what I’m going to do. Indeed, sometimes we forget that the best technology for travelers is that which allows them to travel at all. When you strip away the internet, smart phones, and [...]
IObit Malware Fighter, New Anti-Malware Software
IObit has just released the first public beta version of IObit Malware Fighter, a new anti-malware software to detect, block and remove malicious software from Windows PCs. The beta version is currently exclusively available on the official IObit forum and on select third party download sites. Users who are interested in the application should realize [...]
Talent Copy V, Optimized Copying Operations In Windows
The majority of Windows users is using Windows Explorer to copy files and folders on the system. That’s usually fine especially for a small amount of files. The lack of information and optimization on the other hand may lead to frustration, especially when transfer rates and completion times seem to jump a lot. Talent Copy [...]
PayPal Your Account Has Been Temporarily Limited Phishing Emails
Phishing is still one of the common threats on today’s Internet. Criminals try to get account information and other personal information from users by faking emails and websites of trusted services, websites and authorities. Phishing is very common in the financial sector and PayPal is by far the service with the largest amount of phishing [...]
Setup Ubuntu to browse Windows network by hostname
By default, a Ubuntu desktop with Samba installed will be a member of the Windows workgroup named WORKGROUP. Because that machine is a member of WORKGROUP, you would think you could browse and connect to other machines on the same network by hostname. That is not the case. Instead you would still have to locate [...]
Video Cache View, Save Online Videos
Computer users have several methods at their disposal to save online videos. Browser add-ons like the Firefox add-on Download Helper interact directly with the website the video is hosted on to provide users with download links on support sites. That’s a direct approach usually which means that it is necessary to start viewing a video [...]
Click&Clean, Browser Add-On To Delete Temporary Data, Improve Privacy
One of the biggest privacy related problem on the Internet these days are information that are stored by the browser on the local computer. Most web browsers come with built-in tools to delete most of the data if the user knows how to configure the settings properly. To make matters worse, some data like Local [...]
Wow Slider, Create Photo Slideshows
Wow Slider is a free for non-commercial use application for Windows and Macintosh computer systems that can be used to create photo slideshows. The program is fairly easy to use and creates slideshows that can be played in any modern web browser. That, coupled with a few extra features makes Wow Slider an interesting program [...]