Category Archives: Education

How to get your Yahoo emails out without giving them to NSA

Don’t give Yahoo permission to send your Emails to the National Security Agency (NSA). Let me apologize for taking until today to write this. Today is the day Yahoo tries to make you switch to their new Email software. “Beginning … Continue reading

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Java’s Security Problems are Designed-in. Problems are Not Solvable. I Do NOT Use ROES.

What’s with the dangerous insistence on Java ? The programming language Java has a history of serious security problems, yet several major photography printing services not only use Java – they FORCE YOU to use Java with online ordering software … Continue reading

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Not Facebook – Try “One Social Web” or Diaspora

US President Obama warned Virgina high-school students in September 2009 — “Be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age whatever you do will be pulled up later somewhere in your life.”  Facebook’s President, Mark Zuckerberg … Continue reading

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Computer Invention Landmarks and Their Inventors

Who invented the computers and software we use daily? (No, the answer is not Al Gore, though I was surprised at how much he did help get the web going.) There are large and sharp distinctions between conceptualizing or inspiring … Continue reading

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Lost Data ? — Do NOT Format Your Hard Drive !!!

You have a Data Emergency – Do NOT Format your Hard Drive ! We can get back your data at least 95 percent of the time. When your technical “support” tells you your data is “lost” . . . so … Continue reading

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Email Hijacked – How to Fix

Are your friends getting Spam from your email address? You’re Email has been Hijacked. To fix this you can try two tactics: 1. change your password, or 2. abandon your email address – get a new one and email all … Continue reading

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