It’s hard to imagine that anyone who is listening to this podcast has never heard of the term “spyware”. Spyware, sometimes thrown under the broad category of malware is similar to a virus but generally isn’t picked up by your run-of-the-mill virus scanner.
Many of you are probably familiar with something called a VPN. VPN stands for virtual private network – basically, it’s a method of connecting computers to each other over the internet in such a way that they think they are on the same local network, such as being in the same building.
This allows one to use file and print sharing services, get access to files, or run LAN based applications across a much larger geographic area.
Thanks for sticking with us for the second week of Tipcast. Things are ramping up, and the variety of tips increasing. Hopefully you’re enjoying what we have going on over here — don’t forget to tell a friend!
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If you’re like me, there are certain times of the year where your social calendar seems to get a bit out of control. With family outings, trips to water parks, sporting events, and seasonal festivals, getting a group of people together, and keeping track of who is coming can be a bit tricky.
For this, I like to use Google Calendar.
I know this isn’t strictly a tech related tip, but as a card carrying geek, I know that most of us don’t take the best care of our bodies – both in what we eat, and the frequency which we exercise.
Is your machine running slow from the get-go? Does your series of tray icons stretch clear across your screen all the way to your start menu? Try removing some unneeded programs from startup – it’s a great, easy, and FREE way of getting back bit of lost performance.
As many of you probably know Google is an awesome source of information for more than just finding web pages. No, im not talking about their email or calendar features, even though those are pretty cool, no, im talking about the functions built right into the search bar of the Google.com homepage.
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