This just in from The Windows Club : The full test reports can be found here . Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/bitdefender-tops-av-test-list-of-security-software-for-2010-q4#ixzz1CKb4CCyH

  To complement Island Dog’s article on Valentine’s Day Wallpapers , I bring you some fun and beautiful Valentine’s Day fonts from How-To Geek. There’s a wide selection, and some have wing-dings also! Just a screenie and a link to the page: HERE.

  What could touch our hearts more than a child who’s ill? I’m sure we all have family and here, Uncle DisturbedComputer is “Family” to us all. I just read his post about his niece Brilee and thought we all could get together and sign our hopes and wishes for this beautiful little girl on a thread which her uncle could email or print and send her parents…. So please folks, add your hopes, well wishes and/or prayers for this little one to this thread. Doc says “Thank...

  Recently I posted on Sticky Notes for Chrome browser . Well, good news! There’s a similar app for firefox. Internote allows you to create useful and private notes on webpages which will be there once you return. According to the extension download site, “With Internote, you can move, resize, recolor, minimize, import, export, print, delete your notes ... choose the pages where a note appears ... or manage them all at once.” So, is it secure? Yes, it is as you’r...

  Norton’s put out a very powerful new tool for our armamentarium: Norton Power Eraser . It’s free, and you should probably have it onboard to be used only when all other methods of removing malware, viruses, root kits, trojans and other crimeware have failed. I installed it, and chose to scan for Rootkits as well, so it rebooted my system but gave ample time to save what I was working on (this article). The scan was very fast, and Power Eraser also presented a report ...

      To an absolutely wonderful bunch of people without whom this site would not be what it is: “Home” away from home to us all. Today, 1/26/11 is being celebrated throughout Australia in commemoration of the landing of the first fleet in what is now Sydney Harbor (then Sydney Cove) not far from the base of the Sydney Harbor Bridge in 1788. starting a great endeavor which goes on to this day…. As an American, and a descendent of those who...

  This isn’t Murphy's Law. It’s mine:  “The more complex things become, the more vulnerable”.   This is dedicated to tazgecko for reminding me to get off my duff and do this article. Thanks, mate, and an early, Happy Oz Day to you!   So, Cisco has put out it's 2010 Security Report analyzing events and projecting trends for 2011. Link: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/vpndevc/security_annual_report_2010.pdf   ...

  Windows Secrets is making a nice offer to go along with subscribing to their emailed newsletter. You get one chapter of “Windows 7 For Dummies” free. This month it’s a chapter that interests folks here at WC a good deal, “Fighting Viruses and Other Scum” (Chapter 5) as a free download. This chapter teaches how antivirus products work with your Operating System and how to use them. If you don’t like the site or the newsletter, you can al...

  Note Anywhere extension for Chrome Browser:   Folks using Sticky notes usually have them plastered around the monitor and computer desk but Note Anywhere for Chrome takes them to individual browser pages. You visit the website like you always do. The extension adds a small sticky notes icon to the Chrome address bar and a click on that icon adds a new sticky note to the web page just right click it and change color, font size, etc. You can also see all your notes...

  Jarte 4.2: This is one Word Processor I use and have found it to be unique and a great deal of fun! Jarte is similar to Microsoft's WordPad, but that’s where the similarity ends. Here’s a screenie from my machine: Mousing over different options makes the Left Sidebar menu change. It’s a rather novel and spiffy alternative to every WP I’ve ever encountered. It’s even customizable with it’s own skins. P.S. - the recipes are delish! There...

    At the end of December 2010, somebody broke into Gawker.com and stole 1.3 million account names, e-mail addresses, and passwords — and then posted all the booty on the Internet.   Think you're immune because you've never used Gawker? Not necessarily so. If you've spent any time at all on Lifehacker.com or Gizmodo.com — and I bet you have — your passwords may be running around with a giant "kick me" sign on their backs. A group calling i...

    WinX DVD Author for a limited period of time! WinX DVD Author is an all-round DVD authoring and burning software which could convert and burn AVI to DVD, MP4 to DVD, MKV to DVD, M2TS to DVD, WMV, DivX, Xvid, ASF, MPEG, MOV, FLV, H264, RM, RMVB, M4V, etc.   Furthermore, users can also create DVD from video files and online video, like, Camcorder, Webcam, Youtube, etc. It is fully compatible with DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD DL+R, DVD DL+/-RW that perfectly helps you ...

  From the Microsoft MVP who gave you The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts eBook , comes another fantastic guide: The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7 ! for free! Speech recognition The Ultimate Guide to Speech Recognition in Windows 7 released Speech Recognition is a technology which is used for controlling computers using some voice commands and that is too accurate. Imagine you are using your computer without touching keyboard or mouse instead by ...

  A Russian Microsoft blog has revealed that the first Service Pack for Windows 7 may be on its way soon. Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will bundle all of the updates and improvements made to the operating system (OS) since its October 2009 release into a single download. Late last week, the headline "Released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2" was found on the Microsoft TechNet blog "Russian Windows Virtualization Discussion". The blog promised more discussion ...

  Dedicated to Giz who is being dragged bodily into Windows 7 and likes not one minute of it. Microsoft's support for Windows XP may be fading, but a loyal horde of XP users plans to stick with this venerable OS for as long as possible. If that's your long-term goal, there are a number of steps you can take now to ensure a finely tuned XP system for months — possibly years — to come. Windows XP is almost a decade old, which in both computing and dog years m...