Computer America Radio Show Home PageWe learned from John tonight about this radio program on 1320am and at this website. Good advise in a fun format!
Free Firewall programs
I'd like to recommend folks look at this article on MakeUseof.com7 Top Firewall Programs To Consider For Your Computer’s SecurityWindows built-in firewall is, in my opinion, lame compared to the free programs available to us and this article describes them well. If you don't understand what a firewall is or why you need one or … Continue reading Free Firewall programs
Firefox keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts I know this has come up at meetings. Often when we are using the computer it can be quicker and easier to accomplish something without a mouse. Keyboard shortcuts let us use 'hotkeys' to do navigation and the link above is a page from Mozilla showing the hotkeys available in Firefox for any … Continue reading Firefox keyboard shortcuts
Adobe reports ‘critical’ flaw in Flash, Acrobat
There is news today that Adobe Flash (that plays .swf files from the web) and Adobe Acrobat (which reads PDF files) may make our computers vulnerable to attack. There is no fix at the time of this posting so we should all be aware of the problem and watch for an upgrade to Flash and … Continue reading Adobe reports ‘critical’ flaw in Flash, Acrobat
Kim Komando on Facebook Privacy
Image via CrunchBaseTVKim- Watching: Kim on Komand- Set up Facebook to keep your privacyYou need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video(i.e. Apple iPod and iPad users need not apply... that's another post.)Our Mail list received a post from Gary Smith today about privacy settings on Facebook that deserves a post here … Continue reading Kim Komando on Facebook Privacy
Yuuguu at next meeting
Instant screen sharing, web conferencing, remote support, desktop remote control and messaging. No downloads for participants!I'm always looking for ways to have meetings, webinars, with everyone in a manner that would let us have folks at the cafe, at home or work, anywhere be able to join us and share. To make that work I … Continue reading Yuuguu at next meeting
A Quiet Meeting
This week we were pretty sparse for members at the cafe. The Hot Chocolate was good though. Among other things we did we looked at Picasa again, the Google Photos program. Picasa 3: Free download from GoogleI have used it on a number of machines over the years and recently have enjoyed being able to … Continue reading A Quiet Meeting
News for Gmail Users
Official Gmail Blog: Fast new windowsThe link above is for an article on the Gmail Blog describing how you can now more quickly open a second window so if you want to copy from one message and paste in another it can be done more easily and quickly now. I know a number of us … Continue reading News for Gmail Users
Auslogics Disk Defrag
Disk Defrag - Fast and Safe Defragmenter for Your DisksOne of the things Windows PCs need is to be defragmented regularly as the fragmented files will begin to slow the computer's ability to read large files quickly. I keep watch on Gizmo's Freeware page and noticed this software just moved to the top of their … Continue reading Auslogics Disk Defrag
Online Graphic Editor now FREE!
Aviary - Creation on the fly / blog / Setting Aviary FreeSome months ago we had a meeting about online graphic editors and as often happens we discovered a service far better than the one planned for the meeting. Aviary.com has much of the function of Photoshop and Coreldraw all from your browser. And now … Continue reading Online Graphic Editor now FREE!