Archive for March, 2006
Downloads from Microsoft
From time to time I mention some free download available from Microsoft, the previous entry being an example. To check out all of the available downloads, go to the Windows XP download page or to the more general site at the download center.
At this latter site, you can also sign up for a newsletter [...]
Compose one picture from parts of several photos
Microsoft has a free program to create a composite image from parts of other photos. It is called “Group Shot” and is described thus
Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out of a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the [...]
Tips on tweaking your LCD monitor
Aside from using the ClearType adjustment discussed previously, there are other things that can be done to ensure better viewing with an LCD monitor. PC World has an article giving a number of these.
Fight back against phishing
Did you ever wish that there was something you could do against the phishers? A new site has just opened that should help you report the phishers to someone who might be able to do something. A new group called the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination (PIRT) Squad is described in this press release. It [...]
More on the erosion of privacy
The Sunday Times of London has a piece on how companies are using Google to find out more about prospective employees. This wouldn’t be a big issue if Google’s accumulation of information about every little thing that we do and every peccadillo we commit didn’t begin to add up to the sort of dossier that [...]
How to assign or change drive letters
These days many systems are likely to be using USB external drives of one sort or the other. Also, hard drives have become very large and many systems have partitions (or volumes as they are now called). The result is a plethora of drive letters. Windows XP may not always assign letters the way you [...]
Phishers galore
I am hoping that anybody reading this is too savvy to fall for all the scams out there but the phishers are getting cannier and sneakier. They are hard at work to remove your money and the schemes are proliferating. Steve Bass mentions a couple. Here goes the refrain again- don’t click on links in [...]
Another useful site
As long as I am mentioning useful sites, let me point out another of my favorites, Tech Support Alert. Its author, Ian (Gizmo) Richards, works hard to evaluate a lot of software and Internet resources and has put together a lot of worthwhile information for computer users. He also has a newsletter that I [...]
Site with a wealth of information
My SeniorNet colleague, Joel May, is the webmaster for the Ewing SeniorNet Computer Literacy Center and he has put together a very nice site. Information relevant to SeniorNet functions is not all that the site contains, however, since Joel has collected a large number of useful references on many topics. Click on “Related links” on [...]
The end of the Internet as we know it?
Molly Wood at cNet has an interesting piece Is the end of the Internet upon us? She says that, to begin with, there are technical problems:
From a purely technical standpoint, the current Internet architecture has some problems. Many people, including the folks who originally helped build the sucker, think it’s just about tapped out in [...]
How to read your cell phone bill
When I get my cell phone bill, there are always a number of entries like “Universal service charge” whose origin has been a little murky. An article at cNet explains the mysteries of cell phone bills.
