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Choosing a smart password, from the Gmail Blog

I’ve written many times about passwords and their importance in keeping you safe online. Search the site for passwords to read them and also take a look at this article from the Gmail Blog at Google. Official Gmail Blog: Choosing a smart password.

Learn to stay safe with your email

Like any medium, we all need to keep a discerning eye on the information we read on the Internet and in email. You don’t believe everything you read in the newspaper or see on TV do you? The Internet is no different and tends to breed more fiction because its tools are so readily available. First and foremost, keep an anti-virus software running on your computer at all times and make sure it is updated at least weekly....

I need your help, please

I missed last year’s annual newsletter subscriber drive, so I need your help once again to make this year’s drive a success. As you can see from the Email Newsletter subscribership number in the orange box in the right column of my site, we are holding steady at just over 2700 subscribers. My goal is to double this number by the end of the year. All I ask is that you refer just one more friend, relative,...

Rick Answers his Email Videocast – 060

This installment 60 of Rick answers his email (cue the balloons and dancing girls). Questions this week are from Robert, Paul, Jose, Henry, Blane, Clare, Romero, Mark, Robert, and Paramount. They asked about Word 2007 typesetting, backing up photos to CD/DVD, monitor problems, Microsoft Security Essentials advice, cleaning a Nikon camera after surviving Burning Man, downloading Java, recovering from a spyware...

What Rick said, read and thought about this week 2...

5 point lead with 9 minutes to go…yeah, that’s the #Steelers # RT @hankrearden73: Unbelievable.<—to quote my daughter “geeze o’pete!!” # RT @kafmradiodotorg: KAFM’s ‘Faces of FUNraising’-Sunday’s Straight Ahead Jazz.. http://twitpic.com/jfymg # RT @kettlewell: Here’s my first Animoto video from my #iphone … It’s of my family ...

Email of the Week – 019

QUESTION Name:  Robert From:   Grand Junction OS:      Windows XP ———————- I listen to streaming audio on my computer but it is confined to one room. Is there anyway I can get the audio to my whole house system wirelessly ie transmitter hooked to computer output & reciver hooked to amplifier input with enough voltage to drive amplifier. ANSWER There a number of ways to listen...

Backup Outlook Express Email – Video Tip

This week’s tip also applies to Windows Vista users who use Windows Mail…which is basically Outlook Express with a new name. I still recommend that emailers save their important pictures and documents sent to them via email to a folder on their computer for easier backup (see my video tip on how to do this by clicking here), but many people also save a great deal of email and don’t want to lose it. Outlook...

Pixlr.com Online Image Editing – Video Tip

I talk a lot about Web 2.0 or cloud computing or using your web browser to perform functions via web applications versus installing and using desktop applications. Web 2.0 applications give you the flexibility of having tools at your disposal no matter where you are or whose computer you are using. This week, I want to give you a preview of my favorite online image editor called Pixlr at Pixlr.com. It loads fast and is...

Microsoft’s Security Essentials

Microsoft released an updated and completely re-tooled version of their computer security product. It is now called Microsoft Security Essentials. I have not had a chance to try it out yet (wasn’t accepted into the beta testing this summer), but through my reading it is getting much better scores than their awful Live OneCare products they sold for a couple of years. Overall, it supposedly runs much faster than OneCare...

Print Your Own Manual

To save on printing, shipping and packaging costs, many software and hardware companies no longer provide printed manuals. One of the top complaints I hear from computer users is; “I wish there was a manual.” Instead of printed manuals, many manufacturers use online manuals or Adobe Acrobat files on the item CD to house their manuals. Often times these manuals contain great information, but can be hard to thumb...