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Cogent Slumps After Megaupload.com Is Shut: Washington Mover - Businessweek

2012-01-20T13:14:00.000-06:00

By Alexander Yablon Jan. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Cogent Communications Group Inc., the Washington-based Internet-service provider, fell the most in more than three years after customer Megaupload.com was shut by U.S. authorities during a copyright-infringement investigation. Cogent dropped 17 percent to $15.55 at 12:36 p.m. New York time after declining as much as 23 percent for the biggest

Megaupload Shutdown by FBI: 7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site - NYTimes.com

2012-01-19T17:08:00.001-06:00

7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing SiteBy BEN SISARIOPublished: January 19, 2012 The federal authorities on Thursday announced that they had charged seven people connected to the Web site Megaupload, including its founder, with running an international criminal enterprise centered on copyright infringement on the Internet. According to a grand jury indictment, Megaupload

How to access Wikipedia during 24 hour blackout

2012-01-18T11:34:00.000-06:00

How in the world can you get something, anything, done without Wikipedia? Okay, the person who just said 'wiki-what?" This isn't useful for you, go back to playing cribbage on Yahoo! Games... Now, for those who can't get through the day without sneaking a peak at Wikipedia - You can still get to the site during the 24 hour black out! We support Wikipedia in their blackout to protest of

Wikipedia goes dark for 24 hours

2012-01-18T11:05:00.000-06:00

Imagine a World Without Free KnowledgeFor over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more. The online encyclopedia is one of the Internet's most visited

Koobface: Is My Computer Infected? How to Remove Koobface Virus

2012-01-17T16:33:00.000-06:00

If you are a Facebook or MySpace enthusiast, or even an occational user, your computer may have been infected with with the Koobface virus any time between now, 2012, all the way back to 2008, when it was first unleashed on the social networking scene. Koobface is the latest virus that has attacked the social networking phenomenon. Top social networking websites like facebook and myspace are

Facebook unveils Koobface virus perpetrators

2012-01-17T16:21:00.000-06:00

Facebook and a team of allied researchers on Tuesday unmasked the men behind the notorious Koobface virus that hit the social network for two years beginning in 2008. The virus took over the computers of Facebook users by tricking them into clicking on a link that they thought was from friends, but in reality installed a malicious worm. At its height in 2010 the network included 400,000 to

Facebook Timeline Features You Should Learn Now

2011-12-28T11:49:00.001-06:00

Welcomed by more positive reviews than the typical site upgrade gets, Facebook’s new timeline profile makes it feel as though Christmas came early to its over 800 million active users. 4 Facebook Timeline Features You Should Learn Now Tucked away into Facebook’s timeline profile design are various sub menus that all unlock hidden treasures. These features, although not the shining

Wow: The New Margin Note is Born - Deb Roy: The Birth Of A Word

2011-12-06T09:49:00.000-06:00

The amazing graphing of social engagement and development. Deb Roy shames me and any other parent who thinks they have meticulously recorded each and every milestone in their child's life. How simple a first word may seem, and yet watch the dynamic forces subconsciously at work just under the surface and present in our everyday life. Stay to the end, because it is surprisingly delightful.

Alphabetically sort a list in Word

2011-11-03T13:24:00.000-05:00

You can quickly and easily sort the text of a one-level bulleted or numbered list so that the text is in alphabetical order. Select the text in a bulleted or numbered list. On the Home tab, in the Paragraph group, click Sort. In the Sort Text dialog box, under Sort by, click Paragraphs and Text, and then click either Ascending or Descending.

Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy dies

2011-10-26T09:08:00.000-05:00

John McCarthy, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, has died at the age of 84, the Stanford School of Engineering announced.McCarthy, who died on Sunday, was a professor emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the Palo Alto, California-based university, where he taught for nearly four decades. McCarthy is credited with coining the term "artificial intelligence," or AI, in a 1955

Outlook Desktop Alerts: Change Position on Desktop

2011-10-09T12:57:00.001-05:00

Are Outlook desktop alerts covering up that tray icon you're trying to get to just long enough to drive you nuts? Sure you think changing the amount of time it's there will help, but why not change where the alert shows up? Here's how:On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail Options. Click Desktop Alert Settings. Under

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Other CEOs and Celebrities React to Steve Jobs' Death

2011-10-05T21:38:00.000-05:00

After learning of his death, I sat for a moment thinking what a loss. I'm not particular fan of Apple, but we wouldn't be where we're at today if it were not for men like Steve Jobs. It feels like a cheat, and I wonder, where do we go from here? Hailed as a visionary and a technological genius, Steve Jobs' death prompted several Fortune 500 company CEOs, celebrities, politicians, fellow

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is official, priced at just $199 | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News

2011-09-28T11:39:00.000-05:00

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is official, priced at just $199 | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News The long-rumored Amazon tablet is finally here. The new device — which has been dubbed the Kindle Fire — is poised to take on its Android and iOS competitors this holiday season, but does it stand a chance? Let's take a look at what the new slate has to offer and see if we can determine where it

Windows Explorer - Add or Remove Delete Button

2011-09-06T10:47:00.000-05:00

Excellent step-by-step tutorial by Shawn Brink at Windows Seven Forums. Tutorial complete with screen shots, but beginners beware the registry edit - Always backup your registry when making changes in it. Windows Explorer - Add or Remove Delete Button - Windows 7 Forums

Excel: Custom Views Save Time and Frustration in multi-user workbooks

2011-09-05T12:50:00.008-05:00

Excel workbooks accessed by several users can change in appearance and settings, causing other users frustration and confusion, plus adding time to reset a workbook and its sheets for printing or simple views. Creating custom views can save the frustration and keep settings for a workbook accessed by multiple users. Before creating a custom view set up your workbook sheet the way you want it to

Arrange Multiple Program Windows on One Monitor

2011-08-23T00:38:00.003-05:00

So you you still don't have two monitors, and you're tired of toggling and click to view all those windows you've got layered like a top heavy birthday cake all over your desktop... Windows XP Arrange your windows side by side on that one puny monitor and make your life a bit easier... Hold down the Ctrl button and click on each of your programs that you want to view, once selected, right click

Show Your Extensions: Unhide File Extensions

2011-08-22T23:58:00.002-05:00

Why can't you see the file extensions? Most of the time seeing a file's extension isn't crucial, and then there's times when you wish you could tell an .avi from a .jpeg, or perhaps hunt down that pesky piece of a virus that just hussled past your anti-virus software and boogied into the Windows directory... So why can't you see the file extensions? It's because they're hidden, and here's how

Google, we love you, but you're making us crazy

2011-07-30T11:02:00.003-05:00

First, Google announces that they have stopped supporting Google Labs... ! Considering that Google labs produced some pretty darn amazing projects (Gmail for instance), Google shutting down this mega factory of the successful and sometimes not so successful experiments just doesn't seem prudent, although Google states that they are doing so to concentrate on bigger and better things. Still, what

Javalot Jive: Not Dead, Just a little behind

2011-07-30T10:17:00.000-05:00

Cathe Holden First, many thanks for so many emails about the blog from our faithful and enthusiastic visitors about updates. It has been a while for updates to the blog, much to do with side projects, as everyone who emailed learned. We figured though we really should say something here when we learned that so many were wondering just what the heck happened to us! Secondly, Javalot Jive is

Google Talk Guru

2011-03-29T22:28:00.002-05:00

Google's constant stream of new services just increased by one: Google Talk Guru Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk. Application intended for chat (IM) users, including users using chat clients on low-end phones,

Angry Bird Cheats: All Levels in One Place

2011-03-29T21:36:00.002-05:00

Let's face it, even the most die hard gamer gets stuck and just can't get unstuck. Some pretty awesome individuals have posted a treasure trove of videos giving you to know how to get unstuck on pretty much every level. Of course if you're not stuck and just want to impress the hell out of everyone else with your amazing gaming ability... Theme 1: Official Angry Birds 3 Star Walkthrough

Google Yanks 21 Infected Android Apps: List of the Infected

2011-03-06T15:31:00.001-06:00

Google has just pulled 21 popular free apps from the Android Market. According to the company, the apps are malware aimed at getting root access to the user’s device, gathering a wide range of available data, and downloading more code to it without the user’s knowledge. Here's the list: (Don't go looking for them! Just get them off your phone for Pete's sake.) Falling Down Super Guitar Solo

Gloves for Touch-Screen Phones

2011-02-10T14:03:00.002-06:00

The recent cold snap in North Texas made it miserably clear to me that my beloved touch screen Android phone was completely useless while I wore gloves. Our local Fox affiliate (Fox 4 Dallas) reporter, Steve Noviello, shows us the latest inovation geared for the touch screen user: touch screen friendly gloves! Gloves for Touch-Screen Phones: MyFoxDFW.com Where to buy? The AGloves site is

Instagram for Android

2011-01-27T00:02:00.001-06:00

Do you love what Instagram does for photos on iPhone, but don't got an iPhone. I don't blame you cause I love my Android too. Try this instead: FxCamera. FxCamera is free, with about 300k downloads to date, and lets users apply a bunch of fun, cool effects to photographs. Effects include ToyCam, Polandroid, Fisheye, SymmetriCam and Warhol. This app is equivalent to several popular iPhone

Geeks are Sexy: Five Ways To Geek Up Your Holiday Decorating

2010-11-30T14:41:00.003-06:00

Lego Death Star of awesome... Geeks are Sexy offers us a look at five ways to geek up the holidays; including DIY LED lights, ornaments and the ever geeky fractal gingerbread house! Every year it seems like the lights come out earlier. Returning from Thanksgiving festivities here in the US, we noticed that half of our street was illuminated whereas just days before had been absolutely

Holiday Shipment Notices From Amazon Contain Trojans

2010-11-29T14:17:00.002-06:00

Amazon.com's popularity can't be missed when it comes to great deals online, especially during the holidays. With so many people ordering online, email shipment notices abound, and so do attempts to trick users, who are excited to track their online purchases. Currently, a trojan (malware, virus, etc.) is being circulated as an attachment in an email disguised as an Amazon.com shipment update.

Geek Dads Calculate the Speed of... Mess

2010-11-14T22:25:00.000-06:00

Calculating The Speed of Mess By Garth Sundem | November 14th, 2010 @ http://www.wired.com/geekdad Jonathan Liu's inspiration for this post Equations relating speed and mass go back to Newton and beyond. But after I got geeky with an equation for Halloween candy, Geek Dads Jonathan Liu and John Booth hit me with an intriguing question: what about relating speed and MESS? Simply, how fast

You Darn Kids!! : Google Engineer Fired for Accessing Teens' Gmail, Chat Logs | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

2010-09-15T12:14:00.001-05:00

Google Engineer Fired for Accessing Teens' Gmail, Chat LogsBy: Chloe Albanesius Google this week confirmed that it fired an engineer who accessed the Gmail and Google Voice accounts of several minors and taunted those children with the information he uncovered. David Barksdale worked in Google's Kirkland, Wash. office as a site reliability engineer, where he had access to user accounts. As

Slate Pad Slated for 2012: Don't Leave Your Laptop Behind, Yet.

2010-09-15T12:08:00.003-05:00

Mobile, Cloud-enabled Slate Pad Uses Intel AtomComputing that Will Change the World, Third Place: The Internet and Intel’s Atom processor make possible a new type of mobile computer that depends on the cloud or the servers back home for its functionality. by Peter Varhol We’ve all been concerned about losing our laptop when we travel. With airport security, work inflight, carrying the laptop

Study: Facebook users are narcissistic, suffer from low self-esteem | ZDNet

2010-09-13T11:39:00.000-05:00

It’s not the first time that a study has revealed that Facebook users like to show off, but this new one from York University in Canada has some strong words to describe some of the 500 million and growing members of this social network. A hundred students, 50 male and 50 female, between the ages of 18 and 25 participated in the study. One of the biggest findings, according to the study, is

Unlock PDF Files

2010-07-03T13:52:00.004-05:00

Locked PDF files are usually locked for a good reason, but when you just have to print or possibly merge a locked PDF it can be a real frustration. Not anymore, thanks to PDFUnlock! A new free web site that removes restrictions from PDF files. PDF files can have restrictions that prevent you from for example copying text from them or editing, printing or merging them.

Lenovo Support Website Infects Visitors with Trojan - Malicious IFrame loads exploit cocktail - Softpedia

2010-06-24T16:44:00.001-05:00

The support site of leading Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo has been compromised by unknown attackers who injected a rogue IFrame into the pages over the weekend. Security researchers warn that unwary visitors looking for drivers are exposed to several exploits that install the Bredolab trojan onto their computers. According to a report from Vietnamese antivirus vendor Bkis, the pages have been

Publisher 2007: Print One CD Label That Isn't Centered On Page

2010-06-11T12:16:00.006-05:00

Something that was driving me nuts recently was the apparent inability to print just a single CD label in Publisher that wasn't centered. Publisher's print settings by default are set to 'Multiple copies per sheet'. And if you change that to 'One page per sheet' you end up with a centered page - not what you want when you're trying to print a single CD label on a sheet of two (for instance Avery

HTC Droid: Giving the iPhone a Run for Its Money

2010-05-18T00:10:00.003-05:00

by Marisa Taylor Monday, May 17, 2010 for the Wallstreet Journal There's a two-foot-by-two-foot area near the foot of my bed that I call "the Bermuda triangle." It's the only spot in my entire Manhattan apartment where I get service on my iPhone 3G. And even there, the line is crackly and the call usually drops within five minutes. It's frustrating that I pay $100 a month for my

Outlook 2010: Subject line more important than ever

2010-05-15T08:34:00.010-05:00

Subject lines, their misuse and disuse, and constant changing, can be a serious bone of contention among serious email users. With the changes in Outlook 2010, specifically 'threaded conversations', subject lines in email are more important than ever.Tracking a conversation through email can become a tedious task when the subject doesn't exist or doesn't relate to the actual body of an email

Add Week Number to Outlook Calendar

2010-05-14T11:46:00.001-05:00

When working with Sales and European companies, week numbers are often referenced. Those promo wall calendars from a favorite freight vendor are handy when it comes to referencing the week number, but Outlook can do it for you also. For Outlook 2003 and 2007, do the following: Click Tools, and then Options On the Preferences tab, Click Calendar Options… Check box "Show week numbers in the

Font Junky's Delight: AMP Font Viewer

2010-03-23T23:00:00.005-05:00

Searching for a great way to organize and control all those hundreds of fonts you've been collecting? AMP Font Viewer is what every font junky and topographile needs to sort through the flotsam and jetsam.AMP Font Viewer is just one of several free utilities offered on the AMPsoft site. Donations are welcomed though. AMP Font Viewer is an easy and powerful font manager, showing both installed

How to burn an ISO file

2010-03-20T21:08:00.005-05:00

An ISO image is an uncompressed collection of various files merged into one single resulting file, according to definite and standard formatting. The most important feature of an ISO image is that it can be easily rendered or burned to a DVD or CD by using media authoring or disc burning software. It can also be opened using archival applications such as 7-Zip file manager or the WinRAR shareware

Best Password Recovery Program

2010-03-20T20:12:00.007-05:00

Offline NT Password Recovery & Registry Editor is a powerful, fast and extremely helpful program. The program not so much recovers, or uncovers a lost or forgotten password, but helps replace the existing password of any user with a valid local account on a Windows system.The web site for the program (http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/) states this is valid on systems running Windows NT/2k/XP/

Stop Windows Security Popup Messages

2010-01-21T10:47:00.023-06:00

First, if you're getting this message popup there's a reason for it:1. You don't have anti-virus or security installed on your computer.2. Your computer doesn't recognize what is installed on your computer.If #1 is the case; you should have anti-virus or some type of security protection on your computer (preferably a legitimate kind like Norton, McAfee or AVG), or you're going to have a lot of

'Defriended' App -- Now You Can See Who Unfriends You - Lemondrop.com

2010-01-18T13:51:00.001-06:00

"Ever randomly looked at the number of Facebook friends you have and noticed that you're missing a few?You get paranoid and wonder if somebody deleted their account, or if your old boyfriend finally dropped you after weeks without communication. In the past, you've had to be something of a Facebook detective to figure out who dropped you -- but no more, because now you can use Defriended!This new

Wow, we got hacked. We're honored?

2010-01-05T23:19:00.012-06:00

When a site gets hacked it's a sure sign that it's on someone's radar. Unfortunately, that radar was apparently made out of a cardboard box and old spirograph parts. Not tremendously effective. A good thing as it turns out for us.The redirect code was easily located and removed.Kudos to the Javalot Jive Team!

No to All - Windows File Copy Secrets Revealed

2010-01-05T00:00:00.008-06:00

You have a batch of photos on your camera's SD card and you may or may not have transferred all of them to your hard drive. When you start moving them, Windows throws up a very cordial message window letting you know that duplicates exist in the destination folder, and asks you if you want to overwrite the files... Eh, do you?No, you're not certain, so you want to say no, but there's tons of

Word 2007: Delete Words from Custom Dictionary

2009-12-29T22:57:00.004-06:00

Oops! Oh crap, you added an incorrectly spelled word to the Word Custom Dictionary. Now how do you delete and correct it?Word 2007 is actually a little easier to maneuver around in than it first appears, and correcting a misspelled word in the customer dictionary is not as daunting as it might seem.1. Open Word. 2. Click the Office button (the really big Fisher Price looking button in the upper

A clear but limited win for Hollywood over isoHunt

2009-12-27T03:48:00.008-06:00

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Cyber Challenge tests nation's top hackers

2009-12-21T09:05:00.000-06:00

Cyber Challenge tests nation's top hackersBy Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers, CNNcnnAuthor = "By Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers, CNN";if(location.hostname.indexOf( 'edition.' ) > -1) {document.write('December 21, 2009 -- Updated 1443 GMT (2243 HKT)');} else {document.write('December 21, 2009 9:43 a.m. EST');}December 21, 2009 9:43 a.m. EST The great thing about the Microsoft Office Suite is the fluid interaction of each application type. By embedding the Excel document into your presentation or document you can use it to make a point more effectively with numbers or even graphs.

Google Search Tools and Tricks

2008-11-23T22:24:00.015-06:00

Some times finding information is so simply you might not even realize just how easy it is. Google search is a perfect example of this, with several exceptionally easy and useful little tools.Currency converter, world time and weather, movie start times and more are just a simple search away in Google...Google CalculatorOpen the Google search web page, type in a calculation, press enter. Simple

MODI Gone? Try the Brava free TIF viewer

2008-11-02T22:08:00.002-06:00

If you've up graded to a new computer with Windows Office 2007, you may find Microsoft Office Document Viewer missing (MODI.exe).Microsoft Office Document Viewer, or MODI, was that great little program that allowed you to quickly view TIF files. It was, as many helpful programs we've all come to rely on in Windows, left off in the MS Office 2007 upgrade.A recent find, Brava free TIF viewer, is

Manage Your Outlook Email Address Auto-Complete List

2008-10-25T00:41:00.001-05:00

Do you ever find it frustrating that you can't make changes to the auto-complete entries in Microsoft Outlook? Even more annoying is the fact that items in your address book aren't immediately added to the autocomplete list. There's a small utility named NK2View by the excellent Nirsoft that can help with this problem. You can delete items in the list, import from your address book, and even

New Program Versions that Stink: How to find the older but better versions

2008-10-20T21:52:00.006-05:00

New software versions are not always better, and unfortunately, you don't know this until you've downloaded and installed them. Generally, when installing new programs, you've either uninstalled or deleted the earlier or "old' version. Once you've done that, well, you're pretty much stuck with the new one.Setting a restore point on your computer can sometimes help, but you may find that even

Recover Deleted Files: Free Undelete

2008-10-14T00:11:00.005-05:00

However it happened, suddenly you find yourself needing to "undelete" files on a computer. Not even going to go into why you need to undelete files, but you need to, and there's help available.FreeUndelete restores deleted files, including those removed from Windows Recycle Bin. In case of accidental removal of files on a NTFS (default for Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and NT), FAT32 or FAT16 file

Ninja Cats and Death Stars over San Francisco: Viral Video Know How

2008-09-28T13:32:00.006-05:00

Take a video camera, computer, some software and the Internet, add in a sense of humor, a smidge of talent, and maybe some luck, and what do you get? If you're in the right place at the right time, and lucky, you get a viral video.Take Ninja Cat for instance... A kitty that moves without moving. Pretty funny stuff, I've been doing this for years with my cats, but someone videoed it, and uploaded

Does Your Computer Have the Auto-Runs?

2008-09-16T22:09:00.006-05:00

Computers are good and fast these days, but they're still not meant to have a zillion programs all starting when you boot up the computer. The more programs set to automatically run at start up on a computer, the longer it takes to start your computer up.Any number of small programs and preloaded software that might have come on your computer can be set to Auto Run in the background-- you don't

VLC: The Media Player of All Media Players

2008-09-02T22:58:00.000-05:00

You've got RealPlayer, you've got Windows Media Player, you've even got QuickTime, and for some unimaginable, and infuriating reason, you can't play that video file. Instead of struggling to find the right "codec", try VLC. VLC media player is a free software media player written by the VideoLAN project. What started out originally as a project created by students at the École Centrale Paris, it

Google: Mapping Everything in Creation

2008-08-24T13:43:00.001-05:00

Google Maps Mania is one of those great examples of how well the Internet can be utilized: well organized and entertaining the site offers up just about everything there is to do in Google Maps.Currently you can see a map detailing Joe Biden's Life Journey. This is the latest addition to Google's Elections '09 Map Gallery.Some one over there has their mouse poised and ready to go once McCain

Office 2007 - Auto Save Docs in 2003 format

2008-08-17T22:41:00.001-05:00

Excel and Word Documents in Office 2007 default to the .xlsx or .docx format, which is difficult for Office 2003 users to view properly, even with the Microsoft conversion program available.Here's how to do it:Open Excel or Word > Click on the “Office Button” in the upper left corner

Who is that calling?! 800notes knows...

2008-01-29T14:13:00.001-06:00

You've got caller ID, and you know better than to answer those calls labeled restricted or out of area, but what about those mystery numbers that you're kind of tempted to answer-- just in case it's an emergency or Publisher's Clearing House.Nine out of ten times it ain't an emergency and chances are it's not Publisher's either.Want to know who's calling? Yeah, there's the handy-dandy reverse

Edit Photos in Your Browser with Picnik.com

2008-01-25T16:28:00.000-06:00

Picnik is an in browser or online photo editor for simple photo editing. No registration is required to use the free utilities. How it WorksUploading is a snap, and you immediately are given access to the simple photo editing tools most of us use all the time. You can auto-fix, rotate, crop, and resize among other things. Picnik also has a creative tool set which includes contrast changing,

Draw and Share Diagrams and Charts with Gliffy.com

2008-01-18T09:21:00.000-06:00

Web Applications are replacing the bulk of programs a user may only need once or twice, and Gliffy.com is just one of those fantastic online apps that will save not only expense for the user but also hard drive space.Gliffy is an online tool for creating flowcharts, org charts, database schemas, diagrams, site layouts, etc. Gliffy comes very close to Microsoft Visio and runs in your web browser

Geek Love: Googles 411

2007-10-02T15:53:00.000-05:00

There's nothing better than something geeky and good and fun and that works! GOOG-411 does just what it says on the tin; it gets you info free and easy. Never underestimate the geek or his innovations. Google has launched Goog-411, a completely free information service available by phone that has voice recognition and can send maps to any internet capable cell phone. Dial 1-800-Goog-411 (1-800-

Jatol hosting strands thousands of customers

2007-09-14T10:08:00.000-05:00

What first appeared to be an average hosting outage has become a frustrating mystery to customers of Jatol hosting, who find themselves with dead web sites and no email service.On August 31, Jatol.com, having provided excellent service and stunning support for over five years at affordable prices, disappeared, leaving thousands of customers without access to their domain web content and

Skype worm on the loose

2007-09-13T14:05:00.000-05:00

It appears that Skype users are currently under attack from a new worm that spreads via Skype’s chat feature. The attack comes in the form of an instant message from either an existing contact or an unknown Skype user. To date, several versions of the chat messages have been identified, though the actual contents of it is not relevant. Suffice to say that even Skype made the admission that they

Windows Irritants: Get rid of drawing box!

2007-09-11T15:29:00.002-05:00

Getting rid of that annoying "Create Your Own Drawing Here" box in Windows Word.You're in the middle of a complex document and you just need to insert a shape-- an arrow, a box, something-- and suddenly a huge box pops up in the middle of your document throwing everything six ways to Sunday. Frustration doesn't begin to cover it. Of course you can make the box go away and everything goes back to

Must Have Tools: Primo PDF v3.1

2007-07-14T15:13:00.000-05:00

Free and functional Primo PDF is a fabulous must have download for anyone needing to create PDFs on the cheap. Although, it's free, there's nothing cut rate about the quality of the PDFs you can create with this great little app. Primo offers an online version as well for those only needing to make a PDF here and there, and don't need to download the app. FREE! Convert to PDF