… consider yourself warned. I have encountered several machines recently on which people were either running without anti-virus protection or had allowed the anti-virus subscription to lapse, sometimes for long periods of time. I know it’s tempting to avoid that little expense, but the protection is critical. You also need to let those scans run,…
Then you might want to read this article on MSNBC. I was setting up my Buzz account today and found quite a number of things that I thought would concern some people. As a somewhat public figure, I expose more of my information to the public than many people would be comfortable with. Spammers can…
I’ve been looking around the web for a discussion of various ways of keeping and portraying web site statistics and also for page ranking information. I’ve also had an opportunity to observe a few differences on my own sites and sites I manage. This involves around thirty domains for several different companies including both of…
Actually, the full error message I have been getting was “Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync” and “Unable to store Inbox.” I found this older post, which I include because of the valuable suggestion that one backup one’s mail folders before trying the fix, and also because I believe some people may need…
I think this article on MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles is good reading for the non-technically oriented. I have already encountered some of the programs mentioned on various computers. This should just be another warning to: Keep your anti-virus products up to date Keep your backups current Be very careful what you download from the internet…
Energion.com is my oldest web site. I show a series of rectangular ads for books from my other company Energion Publications. They are all 200 x 100 pixels, and none are slanted in any way. But look at the image below (click on it to expand). It sure doesn’t look that way! The book advertised…
I use GIMP for almost all my graphics work. It’s actually often too complicated for me, as I’m not very artistic. Nonetheless when one of the artistic people wants me to do something, I go to GIMP. I’m not going to pay for Photoshop when most of what it does is quite beyond my skills….
This time it’s from Serdar Yegulalp at Datamation. There does seem to be an “everything must be free” attitude in the open source community. I don’t know enough to say whether this results in precisely what the article suggests, but I have had difficulty with getting drivers, and I can certainly testify that the graphics…
… from Web Worker Daily. Many of these will look obvious to you, but since I started in the Computer BBS world back in the mid 1980s I have noticed that things people take for granted in their daily social interactions are ignored in electronic media. People want value from a business or they aren’t…
I haven’t done anything on this before, but it has been done to death on the internet. Michael Aulia (of Craving Tech) pontificates on the subject on Nuffnang Australia, and does so rather well, without excess heat and with lots of good facts. I don’t have the minimum 30 days experience Michael suggests with Blogger,…
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