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How to Remove People from Gmail Contacts

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Sat, Mar 24, 2012

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Basic Windows Shortcuts

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Fri, Mar 23, 2012

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Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Tips, Windows 7

HOW TO MAKE A DIGITAL SIGNATURE

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Tue, Mar 20, 2012

SIGNING ELECTRONICALY

So you’ve heard about digital signatures but don’t quite know how to produce them? Most business will now accept a digital signature because they now employ several levels of cryptography to keep a signature secure. It will also have a date stamp to show when it was signed and a verification component to prove that it came from the signer. Following is a few tools that let you accomplish this feat and maybe even get rid of that fax machine.

So this article is here to show you how to make a digital signature.

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Tags: Digital Signatures, PC tips, email

The New Dell XPS 13″ Laptop is a Winner

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Sat, Mar 17, 2012

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The Pitfalls of Passwords

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Wed, Mar 07, 2012

Recently the Government of Syria was hacked and their emails were leaked to the web.  Of the 78 email inboxes that were hacked, some of them used the default password “12345? which some email servers use for new accounts with an instruction to change the password the first time you log on.

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Tags: passwords, cloud, encrypted passwords, password protection, password security, Computer Protection, PC tips

Yellow dots everywhere…

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Thu, Feb 23, 2012


Fresh from our tinfoil hat division, the U.S. Secret Service responded to a recent “Freedom of Information Act” (FOIA) request on Monday that reveals the names of the printer companies that cooperate with the government to identify and track potential counterfeiters.

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Clearing the Clutter by Building an Efficient Email Inbox

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Fri, Feb 17, 2012

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Tags: email Inbox, email, productivity

Apple Siri’s has Android Siblings

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Fri, Feb 03, 2012


When the iPhone 4S came out, the big deal was the inclusion of Siri, the voice controlled “intelligent personal assistant” which answers your questions, refers people to businesses and places phone calls for you.  It was an offshoot of a military project funded by DARPA
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How to deal with interruptions

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Fri, Feb 03, 2012


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Progress Bars

Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Sat, Jan 28, 2012

Have you ever noticed when you download or install a file you get a progress bar that really gives no real time indication of how long the process will take? Why is i
t that a computer can’t figure out how long something will take to download? Well it seems that when you see a progress bar it really only means that your in for a wait and your computer has no way of knowing how long it will take. it would seem all a computer would have to do is divide the total file size by the measure rate of the download . But download speed is unpredictable, subject to the ebbs and flows of your connection, the busyness of the files server and the performance of your router.

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