Do we really have to have passwords? Why so many and does it have to be so complicated? Listen, I know it’s a pain and it’s a shame that we need passwords, but such is the cyber world we live in. There are hackers on the Web that have nefarious reasons to get into our [...]

Yes Virginia. there is a new Operating System from Windows that works? Quite well thank you! I do recommend Windows 7 Home Premium or better. It is, as one tech writer wrote “What Vista should have been”; shades of Windows ME, a road bump on the way to Win XP. A client asked this week [...]

I read a lot of techie articles, newsfeeds and blogs to research this column. I explore the latest technologies so that I can keep my readers informed. When I began this column I promised to give you just enough information to serve your needs without a lot of jargon, acronyms and other complications. Let me [...]

About a year ago, I told you about some exciting new features in Picasa 3. Well, they’ve done it again! They’ve added a new feature in version 3.5 called “name tags” that uses face recognition software to distinguish different people in your pictures. First you must identify the person and give them a name. I [...]

In the past several months I’ve written some columns dealing with removal of various malwares from your PCs, but I also I get questions about how to physically clean the hardware parts of a PC system, especially the monitor. So this week’s column addresses the physical cleaning of your PC. Let’s start with the screen of [...]