If you’ve had an eye on Mac related news lately, you may have heard of the Flashback Trojan. Flashback masquerades as an Adobe Flash updater. It is said to have infected 600000 Macs throughout the world. That is about 1% according to some estimates. Do you have Flashback on your Mac? If so,now can it
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This is a test post with the new iPad. I’m testing “Blog Docs HTML editor”. This app claims to edit HTML pages, with images and various other functions. It allows posting to Blogger, WordPress and Tumblr blogs. Since I’m testing a blog editor it makes sense to try adding a photo. However I have no good
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I just had a friend buy a new laptop for his daughter. Not even a month later, she spilled bubble bath in the thing. Seems ok, except the keyboard. Rather than spend the billable-time cleaning the keyboard (which may not work) or $150 to replace the keyboard, we’re trying an end run – an external
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At today’s open office-hours, I had two quick questions that served as great reminders that this stuff just isn’t intuitive. First: A laptop that couldn’t see any wireless network, though TaborSpace’s wireless was indeed up and running. Turns out, that Windows for some reason doesn’t bother to tell you that the wireless hardware is disconnected.
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Just spent a late evening removing gunk for a PCC student. He’d fallen for a link from a FaceBook friend along the lines of “you’re in the movies”, that led to, apparently, a YouTube video, that said he had to install a new video player, et voila!, he’s got problems. As seems to be the
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