There are a lot of great Anti-Virus programs out there that help to keep your computer safe from viruses, but what happens when it just isn't enough and your computer is now infected with tons of Trojans and you can't use it. Well that's when you would use a Rescue CD, and the free AVG…
This great adware removal tool named (Ad-Aware) just added Outlook email scanning and live download verification, and a rootkit removal system to its standard scans for infected files. If you are like me and leave your Outlook open all day during your work day or while at home, Ad-Aware 8.2 will monitor your emails as…
JDownloader is a JAVA based tool that works on Windows, Mac, and even Linux. This tool completely automates the downloading process from popular downloading sites such as (RapidShare and MegaUpload) and makes them more tolerable. You can feed links, or you can add links for multi-part downloads and insert them into JDownloader and it will…
Microsoft's super popular mail client Outlook will now have some new integration with social networking sites. For all you Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and LinkedIn junkies, you can now read those precious updates right from Outlook. "The Outlook Connector brings together communications, history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience," Microsoft…
So as I was doing my normal online browsing this past weekend, I noticed something new, and after some investigation, discovered that Google is now indexing public tweets from the super popular micro blogging site Twitter (www.twitter.com) There have been some rises in user concerns that they're private information was being indexed, but after a…
With over 350 million users' worldwise, Facebook is becoming, if not already, the most popular social networking site on the web. From sharing comments, photos, videos, links to your favorite sites, and even creating invitations for events your going to or even hosting, there no wonder why it has become so widely used and popular.…
Contributing efforts for increasing web browsing speeds for all Internet users, Google has introduces Google Public DNS. Think of DNS as the "switchboard" of the Internet. It basically is translating your requests (Example: www.google.com) into the numeric address that gets you to your destination.
The service is totally free; just simply enter the DNS…
A good friend of mine asked me about streaming his web cam live over the Internet, but was having some problems doing so. He was using it from home, on a small home network consisting of three additional users, and a Linksys wireless router. Simple. First we assigned the webcam a static IP address (192.168.1.150) …
In this day of energy saving, many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy..I just saw a commercial on television, sponsored by some kind of environmentalist group. They claimed that a cell…
Over the Halloween weekend, and even continuing into early this week, G MAIL users' have been unable to access their web mail. This incident is no where near as bad as the September 1st outage, but users' have every right to complain. Google's support forums were blasted over the weekend with hundreds of upset users.Apparently…
Grisoft, the manufacturer of the anti virus software known as AVG has upgraded once again. As of October 17th, 2009, version 9.0 is released. AVG being widely known for their network security for enterprise and personal protection, but probably best known as a great FREE antivirus program. Yes that's right, they have a free edition…
Tuesday, October 13th, Adobe rolled out an astounding 29 patches to security vulnerabilities which apply to their Reader and other Adobe applications. These apply to all platforms, including Windows, Unix, and yes even Mac. Adobe released a security advisory last week warning of attacks exploiting critical flaws that could cause the apps to crash and…