http://www.techknowme.com Personalized computer training to fit your needs - for your career, your business and your life. Copyright 2006 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:32:21 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=21 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:32:21 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=21 Lot’s of groaning right now about a plan by AOL and Yahoo to put a “stamp” on e-mail. The basic idea is that those folks who want to guarantee that their message will arrive into a recipient’s inbox without the threat of being sent to the junk folder can pay up to about a penny [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=20 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:21:59 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=20 Not sure if I should label this a consumer tip or what, but I just discovered something rather interesting over at Dell’s web site. I recently decided to take the plunge and, despite my earlier proclaimations of a lack of a need for one, purchase a PDA. A Dell Axim, to be specific. So last [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=19 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:17:35 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=19 I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this question recently. For the last several years, I’ve been lugging around a large, heavy and rather old laptop that, while still functioning perfectly well, is lacking in the performance department compared to the machines currently on the market. The newer machines are also considerably smaller and, [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=18 Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:04:12 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=18 I’ve had a lot of people ask me about Digital Video Recorders (a.k.a. DVRs) lately, Tivo specifically. A DVR is sort of like a computerized VCR. Rather than storing what you record on tapes, it saves them to an internal hard drive which is accessible through a friendly on-screen interface. Where you can usually store [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=16 Sat, 09 Jul 2005 02:52:33 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=16 Not too long ago, a client asked me what she should be concerned with in regards to her teen’s web habits. Growing up, I was rather lucky to have loose reins from my parents as they seemed to trust me to always make the right decisions, a point they never tired of repeating to me. [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=15 Fri, 08 Apr 2005 17:39:26 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=15 The scourge of spyware, adware and other bits of malware is on the rise. Most of these programs - which are frequently responsible for the pop-ups, system slowdowns and potential identity thefts everyone seems to complain about - are installed by “free” programs that purport to provide some kind of fun or useful service, like [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=14 Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:00:55 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=14 Online diaries, better known as web logs or just “blogs”, are the hottest topic on the web these days. It’s not exactly a new concept - the bulk of sites online when the web went public back in 1994 were vanity sites devoted to personal interests - but the development of tools like Blogger and [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=13 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:55:29 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=13 Much has been made about the recent study finding that 58 percent of web surfers delete their cookies. This has raised some eyebrows in geek circle as the process of deleting cookies is not something the common user really knows how to do. But, first, what is a cookie? A cookie is a very small file [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=12 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:17:59 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=12 I’m currently working on a client’s machine infected with no fewer than 80 separate worms, viruses and other various exploits in addition to being completely crippled by adware, spyware and other bits of malware. He hasn’t done anything unusual or stupid - he simply connected it directly to the internet and downloaded bits of software [...] http://www.techknowme.com/?p=11 Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:16:30 +0000 http://www.techknowme.com/?p=11 CeBIT is an annual conference held in Europe where cutting-edge technology is showcased before being unleashed on an unsuspecting public. As with most technology showcases, the amount of jargon and acronymic speak was out of control. Just reading about it gave me a headache. For the most part, there really is no reason that this jargon [...]