Free email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc, are valuable services that give us a great way to stay in touch with family, friends and even do business. Used well, these services can be very rewarding; used carelessly they could be (more…)
How To Avoid Spam & Junk Mail
In this article we are going to cover some of the basic steps that you can take to reduce the amount of spam that you get in your email inbox. Spam is any unsolicited and usually commercial junk mail. The spammer uses unconventional and unethical methods to procure peoples email addresses, so naturally the source of all that junk mail cannot be trusted unless you know that you signed up for it. Knowing how these spammers end up (more…)
Computer Repair and Maintenance
If you are an owner of a computer, you most likely have run into some computer problems. It could have been a virus infection or the highly dreaded computer crash; hopefully it was not the later. This goes to show that computers like any other machine have some limitations (more…)
Securely Deleting Personal Information
How do you delete your personal information from an old computer or an old hard drive to make sure it does not fall into the wrong hands? Simply deleting files from the computer or reformatting the hard drive is not enough. Data recovery is proof that deleted files can be recovered even when they are deleted or when the hard drive is accidentally formatted. So before you give away that old computer, or throw away old hard drives you (more…)
Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode
Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode are a great solution developed by Microsoft to address software compatibility issues having to do with running Windows XP based programs on Windows 7. The advance of Microsoft operating came with some software compatibility issues that sometimes could only be fixed by having to buy new software and apps, or reverting to an older operating system (which in this case will be Windows XP). This can be frustrating, as you can imagine. If you have been in this (more…)