Just to let you users of 8.1 Preview: There are some updates available for both x86 and x64 systems. To check them out: http://www.neowin.net/news/another-round-of-updates-for-windows-81-preview
Interesting. It’s free and has 3 engines: 360 checksum based cloud engine. Machine learning cloud QVM engine. BitDefender local engine. It supports all Windows versions, XP through W8.1 and comes in 32 and 64 bit versions. It is Cloud based and is a 180 MB download. Being Cloud based, it is light on resources. There is a PC and mobile version as well. It’s real time, has url protection (anti phishing protection) and has a privacy protection which war...
Give it a try… Gizoogle your website, or anything! You can even use the Tranzizzler. Go here to Gizoogle: http://www.gizoogle.net/ And for Stardock:
For the victims of friends and family’s dreaded phone call, “Help me, my computer’s broken!”. Emsisoft is a well known and reputable security software developer. You can trust this. It should be on a “Rescue USB Drive”. It’s also free for private use. It has: 1. Emsisoft Emergency Scanner which has been improved. 2. Emsisoft Hijackfree which allows you to manage all the active processes (services, drivers, autoruns, open ports, etc....
Well, that brings it to 22 ‘Critical’ patches this year. There is one “Important” patch for Windows Defender. It’s important to get these patches, as they involve (for IE) zero day remote code execution holes. For Windows Defender, the fix is for an “elevation of privilege” issue. Here’s the summary: You can review the actual bulletin here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-jul This is one you really have to do.
Great photography, art, business courses for free as webinars. All you have to do is register, and that’s free too! http://www.creativelive.com/
He was 88. He believed his work was all about “augmenting human intellect”. To him this meant making computers more user friendly, smaller and given to intuitive use. All to help solve mankind’s problems. Towards that end he developed in the ‘60s and ‘70s a funny little device: The mouse. It started as a wooden shell covering an ‘x’ and ‘y’ wheel, which together determined the screen position indicator (cursor). ...
Hankers sent me an interesting url this morning. Gadgets were removed in W8 and while a partial Start Button made it back in W8.1, Gadgets were not so lucky. Now, apparently you can get them back and a sidebar as well: Link . So, if you’re so inclined, mosey on over and take a look.
It’s no secret…Google Reader will die at midnight tonight. You’ll have to choose between various options. Local or server based RSS, syncing across various devices, etc. For professionals, who choose their sources from millions RSS is still a big deal. First, If you want to keep your data intact, you’ll need to export everything…today. If you’ve logged on, you’ll see: To do that, go to this page: https://www.google.com/tak...
Simply a great tool. I’ve tried it on my iPad and it works faultlessly. It supports backup and recovery of all your data files of the Camera Roll, Contacts, Messages, Call history, Notes, Bookmarks, Calendar, Reminders, Photo types. You can read more here: http://www.iphonesrecovery.com/irecoverywizard/ It can recover from the device, or from a previous iTunes backup. Since you can’t preview that backup file (even if you could find it), you really do need a backup to...
The article is here: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/install-windows-8-1-separate-partition It might be a really good idea to do it this way, since you might not want to lose your working OS, especially if it’s Windows 8 with all Stardock’s goodies which turn W8 into something workable. Stepwise? 1. Create a partition with your software or Disk Management Tool (you can read how to do that here: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-new-resize-extend-partition-disk-mana...
ZeroVulnerabilityLab has been purchased by Malwarebytes, and is still freeware. What is it? It is software designed to protect the user against Zero-Day threats. So, after the purchase, Malwarebytes released a beta which is pretty much the same as the original and has the new branding with some improvements. What isn’t the same? "[There’s no]... “Please close all applications protected by Exploit-Shield”, and no required closing your browser/s eithe...
It’s basically a secure browser designed to make internet purchasing and bill paying safer. “It automatically opens all your e-banking and e-shopping pages in a separate iron-clad, secure browser. It make transactions and other critical operations on the Internet more secure by running them in a browser that is separated from the rest of the environment with its self-protect mechanism that offers protection against key logger attempts, packet sniffing, and lot of other thre...
Lesa Snider published an excellent review of what’s new in Photoshop CC (she’ll be doing a “Deep Dive” on that, filters and making money from microstock June 24-26th on creativeLive). You can read it here: http://www.macworld.com/article/2041626/review-photoshop-cc-struts-its-actions-filters-and-enlargements-but-leaves-bridge-in-limbo.html For her “Deep Dive”, you can enroll here: http://www.creativelive.com/courses/photoshop-deep-dive-creative-cl...
Nice…for those who test software, or wish to check a downloaded program out in a controlled and safe environment this is just plain good news, but tempered by the fact that the free version is somewhat limited compared to the “paid” version. What’s fair is fair. What’s also nice is that there’s full support for all Windows OSs except Windows 2000, and that the W8 version offers the previously ‘experimental features’: “First, compatibility with popular programs such as O...