Help us help you! How to prep for your tech support call
After nearly 30 years of working in the industry on the business end of technology failure I can confidently attribute this inevitability to two things: humans and entropy. The first one is obvious – to err is human and the second cause is really more of a cop-out: technology, just like anything, is subject to
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What to do with all those old emails
This is the follow up to last week’s “Get rid of those old email accounts” blog wherein I presented you two great reasons to thin out your collection of email accounts. Hopefully you’ve thought long and hard about this and have come to the realization that you can, in fact, give up at least one
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Get rid of those old email accounts
Nearly two years ago I wrote a three–part article about taming the most ferocious of virtual beasts: your email. Even though I know all of you fight the good fight on a daily basis, some of you are your own worst enemies, multiplying your load by maintaining more than two mailboxes (personal and work) on top of your
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Dozens of Apps Backdoor Malware onto Android Phones
You know it’s a problem when even a company like Google can’t keep bad apps out of it’s own Play Store. While we’ve seen several instances of lone bad apps sneaking into public release on the official Android app store, this latest batch of malware is surprisingly prodigious and apparently managed to go undetected for almost a
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Samsung Galaxy S8 Iris Lock is Defeated
I think it’s safe to say that many of us would have very much liked Samsung’s sexy new iris recognition feature on their new Galaxy S8 smart phone to be more than an over-used movie gimmick. Sadly, like its previously defeated brethren fingerprint and face recognition protections, it too has proven to be fallible, and not
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Accidental hero stops the WannaCry assault
Famed painter and TV personality Bob Ross was beloved for his soothing instructional style and effortless technique, but he was also well known for referring to his occasional painting mistakes as “happy little accidents” which would quickly be transformed into art. In the technology industry, “accidents” are rarely happy and even the little ones have a
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