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If you’re like me, when you use Windows 8.1 you probably use your Desktop apps a lot more than any of the Modern apps that are native to the Windows 8.1 “Start” screen.
If so, there’s an easy way to make your Desktop apps be displayed before the Modern apps on the “All Apps” screen (which makes them a lot easier to find in a jiffy). Here’s how: [Read more…]
It appears that Intel has finally decided they no longer want their brand associated in any way with John McAfee, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur who founded the company behind the original McAfee Antivirus software suite.
Intel bought McAfee Security in 2010, and ever since it has had to deal with one public relations nightmare after another due to the off-the-wall lifestyle that McAfee took up after leaving the company. I won’t go into the details of what Mr. McAfee has done in recent years, but you can read all about him on this page if you’re interested. [Read more…]
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Like most people, I don’t like answering phone calls from numbers which have no caller ID info attached, and the anonymous calls I dislike the most are the ones from toll free numbers.
Personal experience has shown that the majority of calls from anonymous 800 numbers and their ilk are from people that it would probably be wise to avoid (i.e. scammers and shysters).
And trust me, there are a lot of scammers and miscreants out there. [Read more…]
Several people have asked me how to delete an email account from the Gmail app on a Nexus 10 tablet, so I thought it might be a good idea to put the answer in a tip. I hope some of you find it useful.
This is actually a relatively easy task to complete, but as with many things Android, it isn’t so easy if you don’t know how to go about it.
Follow these steps to remove an email account from the Nexus 10 Gmail app: [Read more…]
Malware seems to be attacking our computers from every direction these days, but we still tend to take the security of the world’s most trafficked websites as a given. As it turns out, that could be a huge mistake.
According to online security firm Fox IT, hundreds of thousands of visitors to the massive network of Yahoo websites on or around January 3 were served ads that redirected their browsers to websites containing malware. Once on a computer, the malware exploits security holes in the JAVA framework that’s installed on the PC. [Read more…]