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Step by step guide for sharing your internet wifi connection

A few blogs ago, I posted about Microsoft’s 10th anniversary with their Trustworthy Computing. Now the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) format is clear. For Microsoft, whose challenge is to lead [...]

There are E-mail Privacy Issues associated with Google. If you didn’t know this, Google Chrome and Gmail, and Google Apps read everything that you put in there. If you are [...]

You can sync a folder using Windows Live Mesh and add it to SkyDrive.

Sharing some folders/files across a home network using Windows Live Mesh.

As well as using your Network/HomeGroup or a Data Transfer Cable, Windows Live Mesh is a great option for sharing files and folders.

Most browsers have a feature that lets you reopen recently closed tabs, but Windows 7 doesn’t have an equivalent feature for reopening closed programs and windows. UndoClose adds this feature

We’ve heard about the recent attempts by the US Congress to pass legislation regarding downloads. It seems that the legislation is on hold after an outcry that surprised most Congressional [...]

Windows Internet Explorer 9 stores seven types of information when you browse the web. Some of this can prejudice your computer’s security. Maybe it’s time to look at your passwords and change them!

Microsoft had a very bad reputation in the area of security. It’s programs were easily infected with viruses, corrupted, and otherwise compromised. But 10 years ago, Bill Gates sent an [...]

As the world gets smaller, i.e., as it gets easier to go from continent to continent, from country to country, one thing has  changed, there are different languages around the [...]

Normally if you want to access a folders properties, you have to right click on it, the select properties from the context menu. But not anymore! Now all you have to do is hold down the Alt key on your keyboard and double click the folder.