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Internet SPAM, Scams, Viruses and Phishing attacks are on the rise

Laz — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:07:15 +0000

This is just a heads up to everyone out there to be extra careful when handling email. We have seen an explosive increase in the number of attacks brought about to every day citizens through email. From SPAM with fake links, to Internet Scams that these fraudsters want you to invest your time and money [...]

Portal 2 has officially been announced!

Laz — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:51:39 +0000

That means we can stop the speculation and start the salivation over what Valve has in store for us this time. The original Portal is a single player first person puzzle game with some action elements as well, developed by Valve Corporation, the same folks that brought us other greats like Half-Life, Counter Strike, Team [...]

Finally, a good charity that does it right!

Laz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:50:41 +0000

OK folks, this one is important so listen up. I get calls all the time from “charities” soliciting money for their cause. When you ask a few questions you find out this is a front company for the “charity” and they are skimming as much as 80% to 85% of your donation to cover “administrative [...]

Get Help In The Forums

Laz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:11:40 +0000

Just a reminder folks, don’t forget about the Solarum forums. Be sure to register if you haven’t already and hop on over there and ask some questions or just chit chat with folk. They aren’t as busy as they used to be, but I’m trying to stir up the fire a little bit and get people [...]

Cool Tools – Keep Windows Humming

Laz — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:52:07 +0000

We’ve got some big ol’ updates for the Cool Tools section. The folks at Piriform have been cranking out some cool stuff, and they just keep making them better and better. Best of all they are all free. They have several tools that help keep Windows happy, a system cleaning and fixing tool, a defrag [...]

Windows 7 Update

Laz — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:50:47 +0000

I thought I would post some info and updates about my journey with Windows 7. Recently my primary/system hard drive in my Alienware box died. When I got the box it came with Vista and I hated it, it looked pretty but functioned awful, I had nothing but problems with it. After [...]

IDE/SATA/Notebook hard drive to USB

Laz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:22:12 +0000

Oh yeah, this tool is awesome. It works wonders for connecting drives to your computers USB port, it even provides power to them as well separate from the USB connection, so you don’t have to worry about it. All in all this is a great too, and it works even better than I expected. It’s [...]

Mobile Blogging With iBlogger

Laz — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:58:03 +0000

Here’s another application tidbit that I ran across and just have to share. If you are like lots of other folk in that you manage or contribute to any number of blogs out there in cyberspace, and although the majority of your writing and editing time is spent at the PC, you’d love to have [...]

DbSchema, THE Visual Database Tool

Laz — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:34:19 +0000

UPDATE: By now, if you have been reading much of what I write, you most likely have picked up that I put a lot of stock into the Customer Service that I receive from a company, I mean that speaks volumes as to the core of that company as far as I am [...]

Great Deals On Software Every Day

Laz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:42:09 +0000

There is a website out there that I ran across a while back, and I just have to share it with you. Now, I am sure that some of you folks know about this site already, but just in case someone stops by that hasn’t seen this before, you really ought to check it [...]