Elevate America initiative provides technology skills tools at no cost and low cost. This is great news for anyone who wants to pursue a technical career. This is the kind of stimulus that will really make a difference! REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a new initiative, Elevate America, which [...]
According to this ABC news story, 27-year-old Robert Alan Soloway arrested in Seattle yesterday. They claim he’s one of the world’s biggest spammers, sending out millions of spam e-mails using computers he has hijacked and turned into “zombies” — computers that have been taken over by a hacker without the knowledge of the owners. Will [...]
In their latest phishing scam targeting dentists, a tactic the FBI has labeled “spear phishing,” the fraudsters actually threaten violence. The potential victim receives an email purportedly from a hit man who has been hired by “a friend” to kill him for $50,000. However, if the victim agrees to pay this “hit man” $80,000, he’ll [...]
Ira writes: What kind of program do I use to send music through email, that will upload fast and download fast? Thanks for your question, Ira. Something that I believe will fit your bill quite nicely is a service called NetPod. You can upload your MP3s or other music files and then share them with [...]
Microsoft could regain much of the computing community’s lost confidence (which may be slowly returning) if it would spend more time on public relations than on marketing hype. Case in point: Tech-savvy users have warned of the dangers of running Windows as an administrator and have recommended various solutions, including running with a limited user [...]
Q. When I save pictures received in email while using Outlook, they are always automatically saved as Bitmap files. I wish to save them as received, either JPG or Gif. This problem does not exist when I employ Outlook Express. I’m running Windows XP Home with SP2 and all updates are current. I have Microsoft [...]
Q. Please help me! All of my emails are gone. My computer died. The computer guy replaced the power supply and that fixed it, but when I go into Outlook, all of my old emails are gone; all I can see are the emails that came in today. They were all there just a few [...]