Look to the Clouds
Tweet I’ve answered questions about working in the cloud in several previous columns, but this week’s question is specifically about storing files and sharing them in the cloud. One of the best free services for online file sharing and syncing for years has been Dropbox. It’s amazing how many technological inventions start out [...]
Read More →Internet Doomsday, July 9
Tweet Internet Doomsday! DCWG! What’s all the fuss? This week’s question comes from a retired high school principal who wants to know if DCWG is legit. Yes it is and a very helpful site to help you determine if you are part of the DNS Changer Trojan infection that is in the news and [...]
Read More →Grandma was slow but…
Tweet Grandma was slow, but…You remember the saying. But why is your computer so slow? This remains one of my top 5 questions from clients and readers of this column. Let’s break this question down to three parts: the computer itself can be slow, due to hardware or software issues; your network can be [...]
Read More →Friends don’t spam friends
Tweet “But, I just opened an email from a friend of mine and…” The first indication that anything was wrong was when you got a call from a friend of yours complaining about an email he’d just received from you. “Your email account must have been hacked because I really don’t believe you meant [...]
Read More →Let’s make a movie
Tweet It’s that time of year again. Graduations, vacations and lots of weddings mean you’ll want to capture and display those memories for posterity. This week’s question comes from a reader who wanted to make a slide show or video of her son’s memories to be played at his graduation party. She wanted software [...]
Read More →Web Mail
Tweet Last week I hope I convinced most of you Win XP holdouts to at least consider transitioning to Windows 7sometime this year. Maybe I should tiptoe around this next issue, but I feel I must talk to you about one more change, real soon. I did try to nudge you on this [...]
Read More →Fourth Anniversary
Tweet This week marks the fourth anniversary of my first column in the Albany Journal and I thank you readers for your support. As I look back, let me renew my promise in that first column. I resolved to help ordinary readers understand enough geek talk to use technology to make life easier and [...]
Read More →Poor Jud is daid
Tweet “Poor Jud is daid… Poor Jud Fry is daid… All gather round his coffin now and cry.… He had a heart of gold.… And he wasn’t very old.… Oh why did sich a feller have to die?” My apologies to the writers of “Oklahoma”! I was reminded of this poignant and comical eulogy [...]
Read More →Speed up, slow down!
Tweet “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” is an old palliative that General Practitioners used to prescribe for minor health maladies. Perhaps an equally useful one for computer techs might be “Shut it down and call me if a restart doesn’t help”. It is amazing how many minor operational problems [...]
Read More →Big Mac Attack!
Tweet It was bound to happen sooner or later and that time has apparently come. Headlines from CNET News last week read “Botnet Goes on Mac Attack”! Veteran (and maybe smug) Mac users often say that they don’t need ant-virus software on their Computers because Macs don’t get malware. PC users know they are [...]
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