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Andy on December 30th, 2010

How to Avoid Wasting Another Gift Card

Seeing as a lot of people are getting gift cards, what happens if you get one that you don’t want?  Lifehacker tackles this over at their blog…Of course, you could just send/donate the cards to me

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Andy on December 20th, 2010

I have been running Comodo Anti-Virus for some time on my computer and am overall happy with it.  As you likely are already aware, when the anti-virus softwaimagere kicks in to scan your computer creeps to a halt.  Apparently Microsoft Security Essentials is lightweight and has a very good review (so says one large PC magazine)…so, I offer this from LifeHacker:

“Microsoft’s next version of Security Essentials is actually a pretty great update from its already-great predecessor. Microsoft’s option has always been adequate at finding new malware without definitions, but the addition of an heuristic engine bumps its power up quite a bit. It may be subject to a few more false positives, but you’re much less likely to get hit with malware than ever before.

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Andy on December 10th, 2010

 

I noted a post on LifeHacker about “What to Expect in Google ChromeOS” I am not so sure about this cloud computing.  After all, earlier this week some people lost their connections to Comcast (I didn’t, thanks to OpenDNS) and some people took down MasterCards server.  What if this should happen to you?  Do you really want to rely on the expensive cellulaWhat to Expect in Google Chrome OSr connection??

Don’t get me wrong, I have and/or use Google Voice, Gizmo5, Youtube, a Chrome based variant, Google Web Search, GMail, Google Apps for Domain…well you get the picture.  I’m practically married to Google…but this cloud thing, I don’t know

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