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Encrypt Your Gmail With Mailvelope

Mailvelope is a free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox or Chromium) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications (“email websites”). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native email client (like Thunderbird) using the OpenPGP…

Don’t Run As Administrator

As the sixth tip says, “Don’t run as Administrator”. Any program you run while using an admin account has those same privilegdes this includes malware. UAC (user access control) has limited the danger some but it is far better for you to not have those privilegdes at all. Of course you will not be able to…

Preventing Ransomeware

You must be diligent to prevent randsomeware or any other malware from get on your computer or network. Here are some important security tip: Your first line of defence is to keep your operating system up-to-date. If all of those computers in Europe had updated their operating systems those machines would never have gotten infected. Make…

What is WannaCry?

The world has gone paranoid since last months ransomeware attacks in Europe. Banks and Hospitals transactions have been shut-down do to a soficticated piece of malware called WannaCry. “WannaCry” is a software package when ran on a out-of-date Windows machine it encrypts all of the file on that computer or computer network. The only apparent solution is…

On Demand Internet TV

The most popular video services are totally on-demand. Their low cost and ease of use makes them ideal for the active watcher. Netflix is the world’s leading Internet television network with over 93 million members in over 190 countries enjoying more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day, including original series,…

Best TV Antennas

You can get local and major network programming absolutely free. That’s right you don’t need cable or satellite! Just like in the old-days all you need is an antenna. You don’t necessarily need a special antenna. What you might already have may work as well as anything. If your already have the old rabbit-ears or even…

Streaming Players

There are really only three kinds of streaming media players: Apple TV is a streaming play from Apple and works with your iTunes media. It supports the usual apps Netflix, Hulu and many others. No “Amazon Prive Video” and no “Google Play Video”. Roku has all of the apps with the one exception of iTunes….

Use an Alternate DNS

Recently my Spectrum Internet became extremely unreliable. The WiFi seemed to be working and the modem seemed to be connecting. The only thing that worked was restarting the modem every hour. Finally when it happened again I deployed a Ping Test of Google (ping google.com). This to said there was no connection. I did a new Ping…

Live TV Programming Services

This is a class of streaming service that is similar to cable TV. The difference is programming is transmitted over Internet protocol IPTV. This is a few of these services: Sling TV starts at $20 PlayStation Vue starts at $29.99 Hulu with Live TV $39.99 DirecTV Now Starts at $35

Creative Cloud for the Photographer

Adobe Creative Cloud is a software as a service offering from Adobe Systems that gives users access to a collection of software developed by Adobe for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, and cloud services. In Creative Cloud, a monthly or annual subscription service is delivered over the Internet. Software from Creative Cloud is…