Perform Your Automatic Windows Update
If you see the Microsoft Update Icon in your system tray, that means you need to take action and apply a security update to Windows.
ReadIf you see the Microsoft Update Icon in your system tray, that means you need to take action and apply a security update to Windows.
ReadSymantec released its Internet Security Threat report last month and it contained some very interesting information with regarding the state of Internet security. Why should home computer users in the United States using Internet Explorer as their web browser pay particular attention?
ReadLenovo desktop computers and laptops will start showing up with the Web Toolbar from Microsoft pre-loaded. The two companies announced their deal yesterday. Until that announcement, Google was the default toolbar for Lenovo, so I am sure Microsoft is hooting and hollering for two reasons: They grabbed some share from Google This is the first […]
ReadWhen you are the world’s largest maker of software and your software runs on about 95 percent of the world’s computers, you are going to have to fix things on a regular basis. This month’s edition of Patch Tuesday brings us patches for 6 critical flaws in Microsoft software. The patches fixed holes in Windows […]
ReadThis is a very basic tip about clearing your browser cache and so most readers already know how to do this. But, there are still some that do not know how to manually clear out the web browser cache so, here is a little how-to. First, your web browser cache stores information about all of […]
ReadBack in December, Microsoft issued a fix for the IE7 anti-phishing filter but it did not totally fix the problem. There have been several complaints that this filter really slows down the IE7 browser, so much so that users have been disabling anti-phishing. This, of course, defeats the purpose of having it available in the […]
ReadHere are a few of our more popular posts for this past week: Technorati Love Speed Up Firefox and Internet Explorer Undesirable “feature” in Microsoft Vista Use Skype and get paid Microsoft Vista vulnerability Mozilla patches Firefox Wow, what a week. I hope you saw something in there that helped you or gave you something […]
ReadAs if Firefox wasn’t fast enough :), Serge at webspeaker found a cool video that shows how to speed it up even more. If you use Firefox and want even faster browsing then this is for you. The video will walk you through the process step-by-step and to its credit, yes, it does work. Even […]
ReadWe are Firefox people here and plan on staying that way, especially since Firefox is currently under the radar of those wacky hackers :). However, we also design websites and so have to view our work across several different browsers. That means we have to use Microsoft IE. Naturally, we now have IE7 and were […]
ReadNet Applications says that Firefox’s share of the browser market increased in November. Usage of Mozilla’s Firefox browser was up to 13.5% of web browsers and that is up about 0.5% from October. Microsoft Internet Explorer still holds a commanding lead with about 80%, but overall, they are losing about 5% to Firefox, Opera and […]
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