You stop at McDonalds or some other free wifi location and take a minute to log into your bank account and transfer money to pay your credit card bill. What you don’t know is that someone else is watching your information and now has your bank account login info and your [...]
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Issue 41.11 Issue 40.11 I have a check on my shelf made out to me worth $300,000. I have a new friend in Nigeria who wants to give me $1.2 million dollars. There is a government official in a formerly communist country who heard I was an honest person and wants my help in getting [...] Issue 39.11 In 1981 I started a business that hardly anyone had even heard of –a video rental store. As a sideline I also rented,sold and repaired computers. The videos were VHS and I had to rent VCRs with them since nobody owned video players yet. The computers were Atari 400s [...] Issue 38.11 If you have a computer that is newer than five years old you likely have what is known as an integrated sound card. Many computers even older have this feature. It means that the sound capability for your computer is part of the motherboard (the main printed circuit board or PCB [...] Issue 37.11 Most people are aware of external hard drives and USB flash drives (or thumb drives). These are really good items to have for storing or transporting files between computers. They are reasonably inexpensive and add a number of options to your computer such as backing up important files,adding storage space [...] Issue 35.11 This is a topic that I revisit at least once a year –partly because the technology is changing rapidly and partly because I continue to run into very sad stories with customers who have lost the only copy they have of someone’s life story or the only pictures of grandma [...] Issue 34.11 If you walk into our living room,you will see exactly one piece of technology –a small video frame that can display a number of pictures of our family and even play music while doing it. No TV. An upright (non-electric) piano. My wife decided years ago that the computers,[...] Issue 33.11 Part 2 Last week we looked at a number of the good deals available at local merchants during their back-to-school sales that are going on currently. This week we are tackling the technology available if you can’t afford new but still need a computer or other technology for school or your [...] Issue 32.11 Part 1 It’s that time of year again,and whether or not you are going back to school,there are some pretty great deals out there on technology. You don’t have to be a student [...] Issue 31.11 I know that is a strange title for an article by an avowed techie/geek such as myself. Occasionally I like to step back and look at the bigger picture –not just how you make technology work or solve its [...] |    | |||||
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