Online Phishing Scam – Lesson learned by our FBI Director

October 10, 2009

At home, I have a small corner of our basement dedicated as my “man cave“. In this particular man-cave, I have my notebook computer with dual screens, a small LCD TV, a mini-music studio (I’m into guitar and trumpet), and my XM-Radio boom box.  It’s my favorite place in the house (of course, my son [...]

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Windows 7 – My Personal Sneak Peak

October 8, 2009

Yesterday I finally had a chance to personally take a look at the final release of Windows 7…. you know, that new fangled operating system that Microsoft is making such a big deal about.  The tech company that does a lot of our networking here at the Florence Home, InfiNet, had a special Windows 7 [...]

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Buying a Digital Camera

September 24, 2009

Just for fun, I just visited Best Buy’s Web site, and took a look at the digital cameras they have on sale. And for more fun, I sorted the list from lowest price to highest price. The least expensive camera they list is a Fugi FinePix 8.2MP Digital Camera, with a 3x optical zoom

and a [...]

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Watching Online Videos – There’s a lot to see!

September 18, 2009

This past week a very cute and touching video went “viral“. You might have seen it Tuesday night on ESPN Sports Center as one of the “Top 10 Plays of the Day”, or the next morning on regular TV as all the channels starting picking it up. If you didn’t see it, here’s aYahoo story [...]

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FREE Microsoft Secuirty Essentials Almost Ready…

September 17, 2009

UPDATE – Sept. 21, 2009 – This past weekend, Microsoft Security Essentials beta testers were informed that the product would be available free to the public “very soon”. Most of the beta testing articles I’ve read have been positive about the product, saying that it’s non-intrusive and seems to work well. I guess we’ll find [...]

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Private Browsing – New feature in the latest browsers

September 7, 2009

If you take a close look at the drop-down menus in the latest versions of Internet Explorer (version 8.0) and Firefox (version 3.5) you’ll notice some new “privacy-related” entries…. namely, something called “Private Browsing“. What it refers to is the fact that both browsers now have a special “mode” you can enter, where it forgets [...]

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Facebook using your pictures? Truth or Myth?

July 24, 2009

Although I have a Facebook account, I’m afraid that I’m not a very active user at the moment. For the most part, I just use it as an example in the “Facebook, MySpace, and More” class we teach at the Senior Health Foundation. But like most other Web-related phenominia, I do try to keep up [...]

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Photoshop Elements Our Favorite, but there are alternatives

July 24, 2009

At Senior Health Foundation we don’t often focus on particular software programs. Instead, we give you the details on various software solutions and then let you decide which program works best for you. The one exception to this philosophy is in image editing (enhancing and fixing your digital pictures). In this case, we make it [...]

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Getting a list of files without a 3rd party utility program

July 23, 2009

One of the great things about my job is the frequency with which I get to do troubleshooting. No, not troubleshooting my own stuff (when I have to do that, it’s a pain), but getting to help students troubleshoot THEIR problems. You might wonder why this would be a “great thing”. Well, troubleshooting technology is [...]

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Google Chrome – (Maybe) My Favorite Browser

June 25, 2009

Of all the different things you can do with a computer, perhaps one of the easiest to master is “browsing” the Web. Browsing simply means moving from one Web page to another, as you would move from one page of a book to another. To browse, we use a computer program called a “browser”, which [...]

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