So, my wife was using her laptop one day to look up a word. She Googled the word and was taken to a dictionary site of some kind. Up pops a warning message saying her computer was infected and that she needed to run some scan or something. Not knowing that she was about to be taken by a classic “bait-and-switch” scam, she clicked it. Laptop = infested...

As many of you know, CCleaner is a popular utility which scours Windows for "garbage" files and removes them from your system with a single process. Wouldn't it be great if CCleaner did this for more than just Windows programs? If this is a question you have pondered then take a look at CCEnhancer. CCEnhancer is a small tool which adds support for over 270 new...

Being that more of us are doing more stuff in the browser these days, anything we can do in there is an advantage. Firefox is top dog when it comes to add-ons and extensions, and one that's particularly useful is WebMail Notifier. WN has a support for a ton of different types of email: ..and tons more besides that for sites you never thought you could get...

For all of you MacBook Pro users out there, you may notice after a while of winding/unwinding your power cable that the junction where the cable attaches to the brick becomes flimsy or even starts to strip. My wife has a MacBook Pro and after about 8 months of use you can see the effects of this starting. To help prevent this, learn to properly coil this...

You may have seen the term "MiFi" but had no clue what it meant other than it was probably some sort of mobile wireless Internet networking. That essentially is correct, however the word isn't indicative of any standard, or at least not yet. A MiFi is a line of compact wireless routers made by Novatel Wireless, meaning MiFi is an actual product. Their...

If you ever read the throughput numbers on your hard drive, you probably know that most SATA drives claim a data rate of (typically) at least 150MB/s. Of course these numbers are simply theoretical maximum transfer rates which you will never realize. So to help analyze your actual data rates your hard drive is giving you, check the free HD Speed...

The standardization (as in when the FCC officially said "no more analog TV as of now") of DTV happened in June 2009, meaning DTV is just shy of 15 months old at this point in the USA. When the standardization first came into effect, only the higher-priced televisions had built-in DTV receivers, so if you wanted over-the-air television for a lower-priced set, you...

So, Steve Jobs released a bunch of things. And one of them is Ping. What is it? It is a social network. About music. Inside of iTunes. Today, I went and upgraded to iTunes 10. Now, right there, you look at that version number and you have to wonder. Version TEN. Like a lot of things where there are that many incarnations, they just keep tacking more and...