In my professional capacity as an IT trouble-shooter, I am often brought in to fix a computer that has been infected by a virus.  Since I only see the virus once it has installed on the host computer, I have to rely on anecdotal accounts as to ‘how this happened’. The story always goes like …

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Passwords are a part of life in the first world.  Passwords for e-mail. Passwords to login to your computers. Passwords for web based services such as Dropbox, Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest. So many passwords. I am going to share with you a simple system that will help protect your on-line resources while still being easy to remember. People …

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Ten years ago, computer viruses were being written by bored computer hackers eager to prove their skills in circumventing (what was almost always) Windows security. Today it is about profit. Viruses are no longer about showing off to the world. The best ones are the ones you will never see. Virus writers today would like …

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  Remember when Google was a website that offered a better search engine than Yahoo or Ask Jeeves?  Today, Google as a company has it’s own web browser (Chrome), Operating System (Android) and has expanded that Web Search functionality to, potentially, replace many aspects of the industry standard productivity software suite, MS Office. Google Apps …

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In recent years Apple has risen to prominence by essentially inventing, or at least popularizing, the smart phone.  One interesting development to come out of the Smart Phone revolution was the iPhone operating system, called iOS.  Android essentially copied it and Microsoft went a long way to NOT copy it, inventing the Windows Phone OS. …

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