AVG Goes Rogue

AVG the worlds 3rd most popular anti-virus announce that they will sell your browsing data to third parties as an additional income stream  beginning of October.

Sling TV, Replace Your Cable

Sling TV is an American over-the-top internet protocol television service that is owned by the Sling TV LLC subsidiary of Dish Network. Unveiled on January 5, 2015, at the Consumer Electronics Show, the service aims to complement subscription video on demand services for cord cutters, offering a selection of major cable channels that can be…

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Pluto TV, All Internet Video In One Place

Pluto TV is a free online television service broadcasting over 100 live channels full of the TV shows, movies and Internet videos you love, all on one dial. The lineup is hand-picked by people who know and love entertainment for viewers’ moods and tastes – blending traditional with digital in a leanback television experience. No…

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Hulu and Hulu Plus

Hulu is an American online company and partially ad-supported streaming service offering a selection of TV shows, clips, movies, and other streaming media on Hulu.com. Hulu subscribers can access episodes in HD (when available) from ABC, the CW, Fox, and NBC the day after they air, using Internet-connected computers, game consoles, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets,…

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LastPast Purchased by LogMeIn

A few days ago I learned that LastPass favorite password manager has acquisition by LogMeIn a provider of software as a service and cloud-based remote connectivity services for collaboration. I’m not sure where this leaves LastPass but for now I think it is OK. I would stay with LastPass until I hear something from Steve Gibson of Security…

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Netflix, The Old Reliable

Netflix is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of Australia, New Zealand, South America, Japan, North America and parts of Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and United Kingdom), and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed…

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Google Fiber Maybe Coming To Louisville

Google Fiber is Google’s fiber-to-the-premises service in the United States, providing broadband internet and cable television to a small and slowly increasing number of locations. On September 10th Google Fiber invited 3 more cities to join them, one of them being Louisville. This could be a boon for Louisville expanding the way we use the…

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ProXPN and Introduction to VPN

ProXPN is the easiest to use free VPN. Quickly secure your Internet connection and unblock any website. Our VPN works with Windows, Mac OS, iOS, Android, and more. ProXPN is free to use forever but it limit your speed through the VPN to 300kbp. If you login to a lot of open wifi it is a must….

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New Features in Google Docs

Google is always innovating and they are still bring out new features in old products Voice Typing With Voice Typing you can now dictate directly to Google Docs just like you have your own stenographer. When you have a Google Doc open go to “Tool, Voice typing” click the “microphone icon” and start speaking. New Templates Google…

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Best Software for Linux

Frequently the free programs that are available for Windows are not are not for Linux. Thankfully on the Linux platform there are a myriad of good choices. Of course Firefox, Google Chrome, Teamviewer, Skype, Pidgin, Thunderbird, VLC, Audacity, 7-Zip, GIMP and LibreOffice are all available on Linux. These are my choices of other programs for Linux……

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