Adobe has release a critical update for Adobe Flash.
This update is both bad news and it comes with some good news.
First the bad news. [Read more...]
Patch Tuesday February 2012 Microsoft’s Valentine
February 15, 2012 By
This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday happened to be Valentine’s Day.
Microsoft had some important updates (they are all important but some are a bit more critical than others) but they were not alone. Adobe has an update. Java has an update. Finally, some important news if you have a smartphone or an iPad – which it seems nearly everyone does nowadays. *Update – while writing this post I discovered Adobe has release an update for Adobe Flash. This may be more important to update than [Read more...]
Patch Tuesday December 2011
December 14, 2011 By
December’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday has some important updates.
This month’s updates are important if you use Windows. 
This is what Window Update looks like in the start menu
More specifically, it’s important if you view text on web pages or on emails. This Patch Tuesday is important if you use any Chinese language on your computer. It is important if you use Internet Explorer. It is important if you use Microsoft Office. It is important if you have an Apple computer and have Microsoft Office on it.
What? Microsoft Patch Tuesday important if you have a Mac? Yep.
There’s more too.
[Read more...]
Patch Tuesday August 2011 and the Lion Roars In A Flash
August 11, 2011 By
Yep, it’s that Microsoft patch time of the month again.
This month in addition to Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday there is a surprise update for some Adobe products. Also a new malware targeting new Mac OS Lion users recently appeared.
What does Microsoft have this month for updates? [Read more...]
Patch Tuesday June 2011
June 15, 2011 By
Yep, it’s time for Microsoft’s official monthly release of updates and patches to protect your computer from malware.
However, there are some updates that may be more important than the Windows update. Adobe also released updates to several products and as these updates are needed to stop some current malware on the internet infecting computers, I’ll be covering those first. But wait! There’s still more to cover this month too!
Let’s look at what Adobe has for us first. [Read more...]
Make Your Internet More Fun And Productive With RSS Feeds
June 7, 2011 By
The problem is the Internet is big. Really, really big.
It is so big, it is hard to keep track off just the small bits of it you are interested in (those small bits always seem to get bigger as the Internet itself gets bigger). You surf around a bit, find a site that is interesting, add it to your bookmarks so you can come back when it is updated again, and the next thing you know, you have 1000 bookmarks.
Worse yet, you have no idea which websites have been updated. You find yourself spending a lot of time visiting sites and finding that nothing new has been posted or that the latest post is not what your interested in anyways. So, you go the the next site where you find the same thing. Finally, you find one of your favorite sites has something new and exciting. Now you only have 997 more sites to check.
“Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space, listen…”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy
There are those that predict the Internet will eventually contain the sum total of mankind’s knowledge.
With all the stuff on the Internet that is wildly made up, inaccurate, or just a plain old lie, I’d say there is already many times the sum knowledge of man here already. Even if we haven’t actually gotten all the real knowledge converted to the bits and bytes of digital storage. There is a lot of cool stuff you may want to keep track of and it can quickly become a lot of work and cause all that information overload thing people like to talk about.
So how can you keep track of all the things that interest you on the Internet?
Well, some sites offer an email subscription. Unfortunately, not all do. Plus, if you subscribe to too many sites in your email, you end up with a lot of email to get through before you find the mail your friends and family send you. You may miss that email about the most important meeting you have to attend in your life because there were too many email updates from basketweavingforlife24hoursaday.com (or something else that momentarily caught your attention – and no, I hope that is not a real site).
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a simple way to keep track of when all your favorite Internet sites were updated?
What if [Read more...]
