For photographers, bloggers and graphics folks good news. This is a great way to compress images up to 90% and reclaim some space on your disk. When you compress images you change the quality. Sad fact of life. You even use types of storage which keep quality yet use large file types to prevent loss. This costs you space and therefore, as you produce more, you have to buy more storage and maintain it. It’s available for Windows OS only, and has a user friendly interface. ...

  Despite that, I ended up with 11 and a reboot. If you’d like to see what’s in the offing, it’s here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/security/bulletin/ms13-aug  

    Now I’ve seen crazy stuff before, but this takes the the cake. We have a “Chutzy” winner, folks. For those who don’t remember, the “Chutzy” is the award given for the most incredible achievement in the field of chutzpah (definition by example here ) for any given calendar year. The purpose of this “browser”? “PirateBrowser is a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), FireFox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon) and some custom configs ...

  I don’t know about you, but when I have to upload personal info, I get really nervous. You can get hacked during the time it takes to load the data, you can get jacked, the site can get hacked, Do they hash and salt? Is that code secure, etc. ad paranoia…? Well, you get it. Abine’s MaskMe isn’t new (they’re the ones who also make DNTme, btw). What IS cool is that the extension bundles a whole bunch of security tools into that extension. There’s a ‘free’ and a ‘paid’ versi...

  I couldn’t believe it when I first read it. Then, the disbelief faded. HR people today have a tough job. No question. They have a mission to find the best peg to fill the currently empty hole, and fit the peg with the team and the work. So, eHarmony saw an opportunity and jumped. Their premise? Finding a life partner and finding the right candidate should be very similar. Both should rely on personality testing, and past experience. I’m not at all sure of that test...

  Turns out our allies across the pond aren’t terribly thrilled with the idea of people driving while wearing Google Glass. Can’t say I blame them. Distracted driving kills and maims. There’s no evidence to support the claim that this wouldn’t distract less. “According to U.K.-based Stuff, the Department of Transport (DfT) has moved to outlaw the use of Google Glass while operating a motor vehicle, even before the spectacles become available to the ge...

    flagyl sent in a nice tip for some free tools, and good ones. Here’s the link: http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/other_tools/ . Certainly, Chameleon is one to get. It will make Malwarebytes going even if a virus/Trojan blocks it. There are five tools. Take a look. Thanks, flagyl.

  You know my spiel. It’s great, it’s free. You’re guaranteed to learn tons. Just register (I get nothing if you do or don’t). If you miss the first show there’s a rerun in the evening. Here’s August’s schedule. The color coding is mine. Red, I’m there for sure. Green, the full scheduling isn’t out, but it’s dedicated to the Creative Cloud Design course.  

  While cars aren’t exactly a new target (actually happened in Texas in 2010), two hackers (Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek) say they will publish detailed blueprints of techniques for attacking critical systems in the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape in a 100-page white paper, following several months of research they conducted with a grant from the U.S. government. Relax. These guys are “White hats”. What can they do? “They said they devised ways to force a Toy...

  As part of the series on hard drives, I found this article which might be of assistance in helping you diagnose things when you hear them. I hope you don’t, of course. This is a good article about the sounds sick computers make: LINK . The sounds are those of a sick hard drive, fans, and speakers. Hope it helps. Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039654/the-sounds-of-a-sick-pc-listen-to-the-noises-that-could-mean-bad-news.html

  Recently, we had a thread about “What to do”. Well, if it isn’t dead, some experts say do a chkdsk first, others say back it up first, then do a chkdsk /f /r. Making a backup first can’t hurt. If the disk is dead due to system file corruption, doing a chkdsk /f /r can’t hurt. If it starts functioning again after that and the report says corrupt files were fixed, I’d say it’s worth doing the backup again to replace the prior copy. Here, Tina Sieber at MakeUseOf.com ( ...

  Nirsoft is a truly great source for utilities. They’re all free. They all work the way they’re intended. BlueScreenView displays all the data from a crash in table form: the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename, product name, file description, and file version). There is also a link t...

  Fantastic instructor Dave Cross…free knowledge. Reruns after the end of the day’s course if you couldn’t make it. Enroll (free) at creativeLive.com .

    No. Don’t stop to think. Grab this. You’ll not see it again soon! Acronis is the gold standard for disk imaging. You CAN NOT afford to be without this, folks.   Grab it here:  https://store.acronis.com/325/purl-july-promo-ti2013-deep_en-US   Thanks should go to I.D. for finding this gem. Thanks, Spencer.

  Well, as the song goes, “Another one bites the dust”. There’s no notice about the SourceForge installer (SFI) when you go to download software there. The SFI is only for Windows, not Linux or Mac. I agree that devs need funding, and that’s a valid and good thing but bundling without notification isn’t the way. Pretty much all of us have left Download.com . Confusing installation choices isn’t either. The SFI uses the “Accept” or “Decline” choice leading the downloader to th...