And you thought you had computer problems…

PROBLEM: A Lady Tries to turn on her computer, but it doesn’t come on and…she calls the “Support Desk”:

SUPPORT: ” Hello, technical support how can I help you?”
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Which websites are dangerous?

With literally million upon millions of websites offering numerous services, entertainment, opinions, news, products, and downloads, determining which of these sites are good or malicious for our computers is largely a guessing game.  That is, it was.  McAfee provides a free product called Site Advisor that adds a small bar to the bottom of your browser that gives a green, yellow, or red indicator (think traffic lights) for the safety of the site you are currently visiting.  Like all software, it isn’t perfect, and the few sites it isn’t aware of, it will give a gray indicator.  The add-on to your browser is available at the Site Advisor website.

1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine Photo

This picture is amazing. One of our clients sent it to us. It’s hard to believe how far off their technology projects were in 1954. Consider now that a common digital stopwatch is more powerful than the ‘computer’ featured in the image. Wow!

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Internet Explorer 5/6 Full Alpha Transparency PNG Hack?

If you want to use png’s in IE, here is a very simple javascript fix to
allow IE 5/6 to display pngs with full alpha transparency. IE 7 supposedly
supports pngs without any help.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/