Windows Update: Everything You Need To Know

Windows Update: Everything You Need To Know: "Is Windows Update enabled on your PC? If you don’t know the answer to that, you should — Windows Update keeps Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office up-to-date with the latest security patches and bug fixes, ensuring your computer is as secure as possible. However, Windows Update can also cause problems — particularly by nagging you to reboot when you’re trying to use your computer and automatically restarting your computer overnight."

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5 Other Video Sites Like YouTube - Slideshow from PCMag.com

5 Other Video Sites Like YouTube - Slideshow from PCMag.com: "It has more than one billion unique monthly visitors, who collectively upload 100 hours of video every minute and watch more than six billion hours of video each month—nearly one hour for every person on the planet."

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21 Inspirational Natural Light Portraits - dPS

21 Inspirational Natural Light Portraits - dPS: "One of the most effective pieces of lighting gear ever invented is available to almost every photographer in the world… unless you’re living in a cave (and even then you might have one)."

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10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked

10 Windows Tweaking Myths Debunked: "Windows is big, complicated, and misunderstood. You’ll still stumble across bad advice from time to time when browsing the web. These Windows tweaking, performance, and system maintenance tips are mostly just useless, but some are actively harmful."

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Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - Liz Gannes - Enterprise - AllThingsD

Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works - Liz Gannes - Enterprise - AllThingsD: "It was the former Google employee’s first day out in the real world. He removed the enterprise security settings from his iPhone, and installed the apps he wasn’t allowed to use at the mothership: Dropbox for storage, Fantastical for his mobile calendar. Back at Google, he had tried using both, and had his account authorization wiped remotely, with an accompanying nastygram from company security operations in his inbox."

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Pocket : Tablets Compared: Why You Shouldn’t Spend Money on Cheap Chinese Android Imports

Pocket : Tablets Compared: Why You Shouldn’t Spend Money on Cheap Chinese Android Imports: "Many of the tablets sold in Asia, particularly China and Southeast Asia, suffer from serious design and quality-control issues. On the other hand, some China-designed tablets actually compare quite well with well-known manufacturers. For example, the popular Hyundai (not Hyundai of Korea) T7 tablet pound-per-pound, beats the first generation Nexus 7 in specifications and in price. However, do the best tablets from China compare to the latest tablet, such as the 2013 Nexus 7 in terms of value?"

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Why, Exactly, Do You Need to Safely Eject USB Media?

Why, Exactly, Do You Need to Safely Eject USB Media?: "Windows gets so mad when you don’t safely eject USB media, but does it really matter? What’s the worst that could happen if you never safely ejected your USB drive and other flash-based media?"

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Bad Sectors Explained: Why Hard Drives Get Bad Sectors and What You Can Do About It

Bad Sectors Explained: Why Hard Drives Get Bad Sectors and What You Can Do About It: "A bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space — a  sector — of the hard drive that appears to be defective. The sector won’t respond to read or write requests.

Bad sectors can occur on both traditional magnetic hard drives and modern solid-state drives. There are two types of bad sectors — one resulting from physical damage that can’t be repaired, and one resulting from software errors that can be fixed."

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10 Important Computer Security Practices You Should Follow

10 Important Computer Security Practices You Should Follow: "Antivirus programs aren’t perfect — especially Microsoft Security Essentials. If you’re relying on your antivirus alone to protect you, you’re putting yourself at risk. You should still follow basic, common-sense computer security practices."

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How to Create a Recovery Drive on a USB Memory Stick in Windows 8 & 8.1

How to Create a Recovery Drive on a USB Memory Stick in Windows 8 & 8.1: "Both Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 offer a new tool for creating recovery drives on all kinds of devices, from USB flash drives, to external hard disks to partitions on your computer's internal hard disk. This is a big step forward from the manual and error prone procedure you had to go through in Windows 7. In this tutorial I will show how to use the new Recovery Media Creator to create a recovery drive on a USB memory stick."

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