Countering the Nuisance of Email Spying with DMARC

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This is a guest post by Jane Andrew.

Email spying or email phishing has become a head-ache for a multitude of people. Email phishing is basically when someone wants to fool you or trick you into giving them some personal information that might be of their use, and know that there isn’t even the remotest of possibilities that you would have given it out randomly. For this purpose the scammers send fake emails, which look genuine on face value; and this practice has become one of the biggest online threats nowadays. [Read more...]

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How To Remove/Uninstall Hidden Devices (Ghosted Devices) From Windows?

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Device Manager normally displays only non-Plug and Play devices, drivers, and printers when you click Show hidden devices on the View menu. It doesn’t display hidden devices that are installed but not connected anymore to the computer (also called “ghosted” devices). So, basically in Device Manager, there are two types of hidden devices in addition to the devices that are displayed; Typical, hidden devices like non-Plug and Play devices and Phantom (Ghosted) devices that are not connected to the computer.

As you go on attaching and removing different devices to Windows, the number of ghosted or hidden devices increases. This causes different types of errors related to driver install. It also hampers system performance (though often negligible), since Windows tries to find all these devices at start-up. There is a simple workaround to display these ghosted devices in Device Manager. After displaying them, you can remove ghosted devices from your computer.

There is also a simple free application which helps you remove all hidden devices in one go. More on the app later in this article. First, lets see how we can make Device Manager display Hidden (ghosted) devices. From now on, I’ll interchange and refer to hidden devices as ghosted devices or vice versa. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Tips and Tricks, Troubleshoot, Utilities, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8

InternetOff: Turn Internet Connection Off, Increase Your Productivity

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Internet is very useful when used under control. But, when you’re always online, you often get distracted from your work. All the noise coming through the Internet through various channels like social networks, YouTube, answering email or IM messages… reduces our productivity. Of course many of you will agree with what has just been said.

It would be awesome if there was a simple control to disconnect ourselves after a fixed amount of time. Better, if we can only get online for only few minutes and get disconnected easily. Get our work done and get offline automatically. Of course you’ll find many applications that lets you control your online time. Meet InternetOff a freeware app that helps you control your online time and increase productivity. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity/ Organization, Utilities, Windows

PerfectDisk Free Defrag: Powerful, Fast Disk Defragment Utility

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Hard disk fragmentation is one of the main reason behind sluggish computer performance. As the amount of disk space has increased, it has become difficult to keep it in good shape. Most users don’t even bother to defragment. The most obvious reason is the amount of time required for completing the defrag process. Although, the default Windows’ default defrag utility pretty much does its job. But, if you’re looking for a more powerful, faster defrag utility, meet PerfectDisk Free Defrag utility by Raxco Software. [Read more...]

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Chrome 19 Stable Syncs Tabs On All Your Devices Running Chrome

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Google Chrome Stable Channel updated to Chrome 19 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. According to the Google Chrome Releases blog, Chrome 19 has a number of new features including tab sync.

When you sign in to Chrome 19, all open tabs are synced (please note that Google is gradually rolling out tab sync features to all users) across all your devices running Chrome browser. This way, you can quickly access the tabs from the “Other devices” menu on the New Tab page. [Read more...]

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Download OS X Lion 10.7.4, Fixes FileVault Vulnerability [Direct Links]

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Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4 update that features a number of security fixes, general improvements and Safari browser update. If you’re running OS X Lion 10.7.3 or earlier, just run the Software Update app and download 10.7.4 update.

With the latest update the Cupertino company have fixed the FileVault vulnerability, which left users’ FileVault passwords stored outside of encryption in easy to read plain text. Before you start worrying, not every OS X user is having this issue. This issue only occurs if an OS X user have upgraded from a previous installation of Snow Leopard to Lion. If your Mac came installed with OS X Lion as standard, then your Mac is safe from this issue. [Read more...]

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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Makes Official Debut

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On Tuesday, May 8, 2012, the Apache Software Foundation announced the availability of the official version of Apache OpenOffice. It is the first official version from the Apache Software Foundation since Oracle donated it to them last year in June.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 offers improved performance and quality with a number of new features and enhancements. It is available in 15 languages to users of all three major platforms, Windows, Mac and Linux. The office suite bundles word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications. [Read more...]

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Game Downloader: Updated, Brings New Features, Now Playing Games Is More Fun [Windows]

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Playing games is always a great way to relax yourself and have fun. Now, you can increase the level of fun and further enjoy playing 100′s of new free games without the trouble of searching for them. Game Downloader for Windows is a small open source portable game download client that lets you download open source, indie or freeware games.

Game Downloader Intro

Game Downloader basically has a large server-side library of free games. You can use the Windows client program to browse and download free games easily. It makes your life easy by letting you download games without even visiting the official website. The program also helps you discover new interesting games.

The program categorizes games into different categories like action, adventure, RPG, turn based strategy to name a few. When you select a particular category, the program lists many free and open-source games for download. [Read more...]

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