10 things you have to know to be computer literate – It is tempting to think that because you have used a computer for a long time, you are “computer literate” or “computer savvy,” but this is not the case. Here are 10 skills you absolutely must know to be considered computer literate. If you already know these, you should be helping others learn them as well!
10 Tastiest Apps for Ice Cream Sandwich – Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, is Google’s best Android experience to date. Here are 10 apps optimized for the slickest, snappiest version of Android yet.
How to Tell if a Link Is Safe Without Clicking on It – Use these link-scanning tips to check suspicious links. All of these solutions are free, fast, and don’t require you to download anything.
Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder – If you can’t find your product key but the software is installed, this tool can locate the product keys for Windows and many installed programs.
Coding Error Turns Trendnet Safety Cams Into Spy Cams – Network hardware vendor Trendnet admitted that a firmware flaw could turn almost two dozen models of safety cameras into spy cameras for anybody to view.
After Infection: New Schemes to Restore Your Systems – In the computing world, detecting problems is far easier than fixing them. Take antimalware software: It’s always been better at accurately finding viruses and the like than at cleaning up and repairing infected systems. That left security professionals with an ongoing conundrum for the past three decades: How can we be certain we’ve cleaned up a system once it’s been compromised? Just because it tells you it’s infection-free doesn’t mean it is.
Google Chrome for Android: What You Need to Know – Google’s Chrome browser is now available on the mobile Android OS version 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google’s Bouncer – Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of bogus copies of popular iPhone games supposedly developed by Rovio Mobile Ltd, the developers of the famous Angry Birds game:
Samsung Galaxy Note: Is it a Phone or a Tablet? – The Samsung Galaxy Note is a very large smartphone, or a very small tablet, and may have trouble capturing attention in either market.
Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware – With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company that makes QuickBooks, a popular piece of software for bookkeeping:
Company News:
Did Google Pull a Fast One? – Chrome, Firefox, and Safari all use Google’s Safe Browsing API to identify malicious URLs, but the latest report from NSS Labs suggests that Google may be holding out on its partners.
RIM CEO Pushes Developers to Embrace BlackBerry – In his first public appearance since being named CEO of Research in Motion, Thorsten Heins on Tuesday championed the company’s BlackBerry platform and pushed developers to invest with RIM.
Adobe Sets IE as Next Target in Flash Security Work – Adobe plans to tackle Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) in its ongoing work to “sandbox” its popular Flash Player within browsers, Adobe’s head of security said today. Yesterday, Adobe released a beta version of a sandboxed Flash Player plug-in for Mozilla’s Firefox on Windows Vista and Windows 7 as a follow-up to a similar initiative in 2010 for Google’s Chrome.
Android More Popular Than iOS Among New Smartphone Buyers – Some 57 percent of U.S. smartphone buyers picked an Android handset for the first time, compared with 34 percent who chose an iPhone, according to NPD Group.
ownCloud Enterprise Set for March Release – OwnCloud’s offering is analogous in many ways to what Dropbox and Box provide in that it enables users to store and share files in the cloud. The key difference is that ownCloud is open source, enabling any user or enterprise to roll its own cloud storage service.
Off Topic (Sort of):
Five reasons why Windows 8 will be dead on arrival – Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Vista will have several things in common: Both are unwanted operating system updates that will flop in the marketplace.
Cracked: 5 Things You Should Know Before Trying to Fix Your Computer – So I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised when I find people today — smart people who know their way around the Internet — who don’t know what to do when their computer flips out and starts shouting racial slurs at them. If you’re one of those people, pay attention, because what I’m about to tell you can save you hundreds of dollars. Before you pack up your injured porn machine and drive it to the local repair shop, understand that …
How to Play PC Games on Your HDTV – You can take advantage of your high-powered gaming system to play PC games and classic console games at beautiful resolutions on your HDTV. Here’s how to do it.
Four email types that can drive you crazy – People have distinctly different ways of doing things–even something as simple as emailing. Here are four types that can drive you crazy.
Today’s Quote:
“A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.”
- Bill Vaughan
Today’s Free Downloads:
EASEUS Todo Backup – Easeus ToDo Backup Free is the best free backup program in existence, despite some exceedingly minor usability issues. It will be a rare user who needs more than it provides.
Nitro PDF Reader 2.2.1.12 – Create PDF files, fill-in and save forms, review and collaborate electronically, stamp your signature, type text directly on the page, repurpose content, and work with electronic documents in a way that’s never before been possible in a free PDF reader.
