Here are the links from today’s show. Take time, sit back and enjoy reading here or listening to the podcast here. Ron Tech News Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 http://www.beautyoftheweb.com Born Monday, 3/14 Mozilla Firefox 4 http://firefox.com Supposedly March 22…tomorrow. Then going to continual updates as Google Chrome has been doing. Google Chrome http://google.com/chrome Constantly updating…
I get emails from people quite often wondering how they can go about protecting people (especially kids & teens) from the darker side of the internet. I did write about this several years ago but from the number of changes in the e-world, software and number of emails I get; I feel it is time…
Several weeks ago I mentioned a application when talking about Ubuntu called, VirtualBox. I had a couple of people writing asking if there was a program like VirtualBox they could use to run Ubuntu, Windows XP or another operating system on their Windows 7 computer. Guess what? There is and it is called, "VirtualBox", (virtualbox.org)…
This is something that bothered me, ever so slightly for a while, but still I wanted to find a “fix” to, so today here it is. I have successfully tested this with Windows Vista and 7. Here is what your explorer view looks like with the default settings. To display drive-letters first, followed by the…
If you know me or read my articles and columns you know that I am a Google Lover and so I have to share another one with you. Read their blog but basically now Microsoft Office (at least Word, Excel and PowerPoint) all work in conjunction with Google Docs. You can create, store, edit and…
I received an email from Ben in Arizona last week. First of all you may ask, "Are you published in Arizona?" The answer is nope, but I sure wish I was. Maybe then Kim Komando would discover me and I would be on my way to fame and fortune…yeah, right. I have had people write…
Here are the links we talked about this morning on the show. Try them out, enjoy them and let me know what you think. I promised not to get too crazy the next time I talk about Google, well OK, I will at least try to remain calm. Trying something new this time, listen to…
I did not think we would be talking about Ubuntu for yet another week but here we are. I suppose this will be the last one but you folks are the drivers, I am just the tour guide. Keep those emails coming! Several readers have been reading about Ubuntu and doing some studying. Great job!…
In review, Ubuntu is a free Linux based operating system that you could use to replace Windows on your computer. I will hit a few more Ubuntu specialties today and move on next week. Since Ubuntu is free you would think that getting help about how to use things would be impossible. However, since there…
Last week I introduced you to Ubuntu which is a free operating system, but I asked you to wait until today before installing and running it on your computer. Ubuntu is licensed as Open Source software, which means that it can be used, distributed, shared and edited by anyone, at no cost. Here are some…
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