I have a few suggestions this week of a few steps you may want to take to make your Facebook account a little more secure. Just think if someone took over your Facebook account which has been known to happen to people in recent times. To your friends, it may appear that you have starting…
Toward the end of last month my wife was on Facebook. For those of you who know her that is not much of a stretch since she regularly enjoys it. She was reading things from her friends, looking at pictures from across the world, looking into unfolding world events, catching up on politics (not), seeing…
Several years ago, I wrote about an application for Windows users, called “Ninite,” (ninite.com). If you are getting a new computer for Christmas, birthday, whatever you need to use this application. It is currently available for both Windows and Linux computers. If you visit the Ninite, you can choose programs you want installed on your…
A friend of mine, Tyler, told me a couple of weeks ago he had the new Taco Bell app for his phone. I thought, "Well isn’t that nice? But he could use his actual phone to call it in." Of course, that was an old school thought. So I checked out the app for my…
With the web taking over the world for most everyone you may sometimes wonder if a site is actually safe to surf. This is not an unfounded concern as viruses, trojans, worms, keyloggers, etc. can be put on your computer from an unsafe site. How can you know if you are safe or not? Each…
A month or so ago Google made a change to Gmail. This change would allow users to send email messages to anyone from their Google+ profiles. In case you are like me and are not a user of Google+ let’s take a look. Google has said that, "Google+ has a ‘social layer’ that enhances many…
This week I will continue with the second half of the links we talked about last year at DoubleClicks.info. Remember, if the site addresses are too long to type I have shortened them with bit.ly. Here they are in their order of appearance with short descriptions of each. Dropbox – bit.ly/aszzao. A very good cloud…
Since I get many questions about Smartphones here are some interesting statistics which may answer some of your inquiries. The top five smartphone operating systems, according to comscore.com stack up like this. Android is number one with 52.0% of the market followed not very closely by Apple with 39.2%. Next were Blackberry, Microsoft with 5.1%…
Last week I wrote about some of the Android apps I use on my tablet and phone. I asked you to let me know if you liked what you read. If so, I would add to the list. First, thanks for all the comments and second, here are the next ones in my list. Also,…
I recently received a distressing email from Barbara, Broadway, VA, about being hacked. Her email started like this, "Yesterday I got up, turned on my computer, and found that my Gmail had been hacked…" Once they had her email address it allowed them to gain control of her Facebook account too. Her passwords were not…
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