Saturday, April 12, 2014

How do You Convince a Family Member to Upgrade an Old (and Possibly Compromised) System?

How do You Convince a Family Member to Upgrade an Old (and Possibly Compromised) System?: "This week saw the arrival of Windows XP’s EOL date, yet many are holding onto it, and on occasion, even older systems still. How do you convince a stubborn family member that updating their unsupported system to a newer, more secure one is in their best interest?

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites."



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4 Websites That Look Official But Will Take Your Money

4 Websites That Look Official But Will Take Your Money: "We tend to be trusting of official-looking websites, but not everyone out there is as honest as we’d like to believe. Even if you’re a scrupulous person, it can be easy to get tricked by an official-looking site. Here are four examples.
These four have caught a lot of people off-guard: make sure you’re not one of them! These aren’t “scam” websites (though it’s important to watch out for scams, too), as they do actually state what they offer and, if you’re paying attention, you’ll see that you’re going to pay more than is required for what you’re looking for. But they’re still quite misleading."



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How To Free Up Disk Space Without Booting Into Windows

How To Free Up Disk Space Without Booting Into Windows: "Hard drives spend most of their time in the computer they were originally shipped with, but as computers age and user needs change they may eventually be replaced by a better drive, placed in storage, or moved to a new PC.
This may, in turn, leave you with a need to free up disk space without booting into the Windows on the computer a drive was originally used with. Taking care of this is easy if you have the correct tools."



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3 Easy Ways To Stop Email Overload From Hitting Your Inbox

3 Easy Ways To Stop Email Overload From Hitting Your Inbox: "Akshata
On 10th April, 2014
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Email has quite a reputation as a productivity killer. Managing email well can help you keep your inbox clean, but wouldn’t it be great if you got less of it to begin with?
Methods that help you organize your emails are often designed to work on emails that have already arrived in your inbox. To minimize the amount of time you spend sifting through email, you need to stop it at its source i.e. before it hits your account. The following simple hacks can help ensure that there are fewer incoming messages for you to deal with"



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How to solve four common problems with your new smartphone - CNET

How to solve four common problems with your new smartphone - CNET: "For all their smarts, smartphones can be complicated animals. Or at least frustrating ones, especially if you run into some of the problems that tend to crop up among new smartphone owners.

(Note that I'm referring to both new smartphone-owners and new-smartphone owners. Hyphenation matters, people!)"



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