I’m frequently asked how to do this, and the simple answer is that if an e-mail isn’t from someone you know or someone you do business with, don’t open it. Further, if the e-mail doesn’t seem in character for that person or business, don’t open it. If you’d be suspicious of the content if your…
I recently reorganized the way we connect our home and my office, which is across the yard. “Across the yard” became about 100 feet further than it had been, and it looked inconvenient to connect this via a cable. So I didn’t. I have tried a couple of power line ethernet adapters for clients and…
After I started using Disqus for comments on another web site, I was still getting huge amounts of spam. None of it showed on the web site, which is good, but it was getting to be a sizable portion of the database. After seeing several responses to different problems that produced similar keywords, I found…
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While I absolutely have to have the full creative suite for my publishing work, this offer for just Photoshop and Lightroom (plus minor goodies) should be of interest to photographs and artists who just use Photoshop. (HT: Digital Photography Review) I’m planning to write up some notes on working with the Creative Suite, especially Photoshop…
Top 3 Myths about Hackers on Facebook from thatsnonsense.com provides some good information, though in my experience trying to explain to people the difference between being hacked and having installed rogue software is usually futile. All they know is their computer is doing something they didn’t plan, and they want it to stop. It’s difficult…
I don’t know that there are many people who want this arrangement, but since I’m using it, I thought I’d write a few notes. I use Creative Cloud for book layouts and graphics design for my company, Energion Publications. I have done layout with Scribus, and I intend to post on some of the differences…
When I first started using Google+ it was largely because I really need to be on various social media platforms to reach whoever I can and also so I know what they’re like when others ask. At first I thought Google+ was just a somewhat less useful Facebook imitator. That is starting to change. The…
I cannot think of anything that will spare computer users more annoyance and hardship than being careful of what they install on their computers. I’ve cleaned up several machines recently, and in every case there were multiple toolbars, numerous search providers, and a number of utilities. In each case the users could not tell me…
TechRepublic has been running some of the humor of customer support, most of which has to do with clueless users and how funny some of their responses are. I am acquainted with this kind of humor and occasionally pass some of it on myself. I also know some stories of really dumb tech support guys,…
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