Apple has been ordered to stop selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in the capitol – get this – because the phone’s design is too similar to the Shenzhen 100C smartphone. Horses and carts, that. There are six counterfeit iPhones produced in China. Apple is playing in a casino where the only decks are the stacked decks. Not enough they’re stealing brazenly, they’ve even ripped off the iOS, and Apple stores. But things aren’t coincidental in China, which is Apple’s largest market ...
So…what is a Polymorphic Virus? Quoting the technopedia: “A polymorphic virus is a complicated computer virus that affects data types and functions. It is a self-encrypted virus designed to avoid detection by a scanner. Upon infection, the polymorphic virus duplicates itself by creating usable, albeit slightly modified, copies of itself.” – technopedia So, perfect. Your AV works by recognizing defined viral signatures…so the coders who created the virus know this an...
At this point, very little surprises me, but this really does. PC makers (yes, even the big ones – Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo) install crap/bloatware on your brand new device, to profit from both ends. They install programs of little value to you, but plenty to them as they are paid to install them by the programs’ makers in the hope you’ll subscribe, after a “trial period”. Well, when you try the programs for the first time, and subsequently, their “automatic updaters...
If you have KeyPass2 – or any version of it, you’d best disable automatic updates if you want the security of your accounts on the sites where you use the password manager to remain protected. Apparently, while it checks for updates, they aren’t automatically downloaded and installed. It notifies you whether updates are available and you have to click on an additional link to get to the download page. Unfortunately, this update page is http, not https as it sh...
If The Register is correct, the newest “Upgrade tool” will not offer a choice of not upgrading to W10. “As the screenshot above shows, a new version of Microsoft's upgrade tool no longer offers the option of cancelling installation entirely. Instead, users are presented only with the choice of setting a date and time - being able to defer the Windows 10 installation by no more than a few days - or "start the upgrade now". The 'schedule your upgrade'...
Remember them. It’s about those great activities we’re all doing with the ones we love, today…and it’s about so much more. Let’s be grateful…my dad would always put a paper plate with a hot dog and a beer at an empty place at the table on this day. When I was old enough to be curious, I asked why. He told me…and I never forgot. Thank them this day, for all the other days.
Ben Willmore did LightroomCC: The Complete Guide about a month ago, and next he’ll be teaching PhotoshopCC. Ben’s a great instructor, and this will be a three week course as well. It will be (if I can use LightroomCC as a guide), an hour to two hour lesson every day, which will repeat during the day and then the week’s lessons will repeat over the weekend. I think. ANyway, the lessons will be free and if you purchase anytime access, you’ll get files and...
Nice and useful new app to find out quickly if any of your online accounts have been hacked. “When you first start up the app, it informs you of how your email address is used once you enter it, stating that it is only passed to the Have I been pwned? service and not sent anywhere else. Once your account is added, it will show you a list of any breaches that your email address is known to have been involved in. A handy feature of 'Hacked?' is that you can enable back...
I use W10 on one machine and W7 on another. Because MS has decided to break its own guidelines regarding ethical behavior, by using deceit to cause people to upgrade when they in fact, did not so with, I’m giving folks some articles, a sort of “how to” avoid or undo those actions of MS. Of course that won’t change the fact that new machines will come with W10 on them, and that MS’s other OSs will expire and stop getting support/patching at some point and become more vulnerable to att...
Now, and in the past, when you straightened the horizon of a photo, or cropped it, annoying white triangles were generated which had to be cloned to fill, or significant areas of your photo would be lost when Photoshop put the new borders inside the pre-crop image to avoid those white areas. Now, the same technology which is used in the patch tool, content aware move/extend tools and spot healing brush will be part of the crop tool as well. Here’s how you will be able to u...
Windows 10 will require 2GB RAM (minimum) to run on x32 machines starting this summer. The RAM requirements for x64 machines is 2GB and won’t change. What this means is that OEMs will have to put at least 2 GB on every x32 machine they sell if they intend to put W10 on it. Older machines which are owner upgraded with lower amounts of RAM (i.e 1 GB) will still run, but slowly. This change will happen with the next major update (”Anniversary Update”). Original Sourc...
The latest scammers show knowledge of customers’ phone numbers, PC serial numbers and their support history. This was first reported in arstechnica back in January 2016, but it turns out, in Dell’s Forums in July 2015 there was a customer post about a similar incident of tech support calling with all the computer’s info and support history. When this customer pressed to know what was going on he got shut sown with "Dell is aware of this and other complaints a...
Martin Brinkmann, the owner of gHacks is a very skilled and responsible reviewer. He reviewed Fences 3.0 on 5/20. Therese were his conclusions: “There are two types of computer users out there when it comes to the desktop of the PC: those who keep it in pristine condition and don't put any files or shortcuts on it, and those who use it as the main location for downloads, shortcuts, files and folders. You have probably seen desktops in the past that overflow w...
One of my favorites…Morley Safer. Forty six seasons on 60 Minutes. He was due to retire and that was announced just last week. He was born in Toronto…earned a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2009. He also collected 12 Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards, two Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, two George Polk Memorial Awards and the Paul White Award from the the Radio/Television News Directors Association. It was one helluva career…he even caused change of the Army’s R...
After making Satya Nadella sob from shame, MS has now taken starkers criticism to heart and has changed its ways telling you when your planned update to W10 will happen, and this has been going on for the past couple or three months. Not to worry, you can reschedule or cancel the upgrade. Thanks, Mark! Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-now-providing-a-time-and-date-that-your-pc-will-auto-upgrade-to-windows-10