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Back in December Microsoft bought a company called GIANT which made a well-known anti-spyware utility. Yesterday Microsoft released the rebranded utility in beta. I never tried the GIANT version, but I’m quite impressed with the Microsoft version. The interface is very nice. It is very easy to do, and it seems to do a great …
This comes courtesy of the TechRepublic Windows XP Tips newsletter: If the vast amount of available space on your hard disk is dwindling, you’re probably wondering where all that space has gone. To figure that out, you may open Windows Explorer and look for the folder or folders that are using up all the hard …
Co-worker and subscriber Pat Clary sent us this. From Small Business Pipeline: Every day in your workplace, the curses get louder. Unwanted pop-up ads, slow computers, PCs that crash all the time. Despite the network firewall and the anti-virus software installed on the server and every computer, your office is infested with spyware. You’ve read …
This is another good one courtesy of Ed Bott. If you don’t subscribe to his blog, then get to it! Visit Doug Knox’s site and pick one of these handy-dandy downloadable Windows XP File Assocation Fixes. He’s got 24 in all, from Batch Files to Zip Folders.
Have you ever wondered what the employees at Microsoft view most often on the web? Or how about what the most popular sites are for your ISP? Well, you can view this information at the VisitorVille web site.
Mass Domain Search Enter up to 10 different Domains for the same keyword, and check the position of the web sites in Google. Check it out at http://www.googlerankings.com/
From SearchEngineWatch: Looking for an answer to a specific question? Check out this list of the best reference sites of 2004, as compiled by the American Library Association. The list is compiled by MARS, the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association. To be eligible for consideration, sites must meet a number of criteria, …
Yesterday I posted a link to Google’s year-end review of search terms. Well, of course the other search engines have done this as well. Visiting http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/ will display Yahoo!’s: Top Movies Searches Top News Searches Top Reality Show Searches Top Olympian Searches Top Music Searches Top Britney Spears Searches Top Music Lyrics Searches Top Auto …
From the Ed Bott – Ed Bott – Windows (and Office) Expertise: Security alert for Windows XP blog: Here’s a disturbing report of a Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Internet Explorer, from Secunia. Note that installing SP2 alone will not protect you from this problem, although it does offer a useful tool to fix it temporarily. …
Another wireless digital media player, this one from Netgear. The first one we saw was from D-Link. We’ll see if we can’t get a review lined up for the new year on one or both of these products.