Active Blog News - Computer & Network Information

We are told, in order to survive on the Internet, our computers need protection afforded by antivirus applications. If that’s true:

• Why do computers still get infected?

• Would it be a lot worse if we didn’t use antivirus programs?

Apples’ Steve Jobs, on January 27th 2010 unveiled their latest “must have’ product named iPad that was designed to "fills the gap between SmartPhones and laptops” and provide “the best web experience you've ever had”.
Questions: is there a gap that needs to be filled between SmartPhones and Laptops? Can iPad do the job?
I have my doubts and this is why:

I received so much email on this article I decided to run it one more time.

One of my neighbors recently experienced ransomware first hand. Up until then, he had no idea it existed. Because of that, it seems important to revisit extortion malware, explain exactly what it is, and how to avoid it.

Everyone has run into it: bureaucracy that gets in your way and prevents you from achieving your goals. Whether
you're trying to find the right support solution, fix something that's broke, or return an Internet purchase,
you will often encounter problems. Here are some tips for dealing with those bureaucratic hurdles...

3g is a cellular (cell phone) wireless network defined as an upgrade to the old 2g network. However, 3g is not just an upgrade to the old network, it's a completely different infrastructure from the prior generation.

I kinda like it but if you really must, turning autocomplete on or off is simple, and you can even choose to leave it on for web addresses, for example, and turn it off for forms. Here's how:

From time to time, someone will send me a worksheet with hidden rows or columns. I usually don’t need to see the data, so of course I forget how to unhide it on the rare occasions when I do need to see it. It’s easy, and this is how we do it:

In Microsoft Word, there are many different views of your document you can use when editing your document.  Some are good for seeing what your document will look like in print, as a WebPage, and others will show document formatting. But how do I take advantage of Views???

Rather than interrupting the flow of your presentation by having to scroll to and position each area as needed, you could create custom views in Microsoft Access, which you can readily access by clicking on a list in your toolbar, and this is how we do it...