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How Do Your Emails Get to Their Destination – Google Explains

Posted: May 15, 2012

 

default[1]Google launched an interesting website titled, Story of Send, which explains how an email travels from your PC, tablet or smartphone to its destination.

The site is an interactive, animated story, showing not only the journey of your emails, but also explaining Google’s efforts to keep viruses and spam out of your inbox.

Video and more info after the jump…

Apple Mobile Device Service (AMDS) Causing Slowness with iTunes 10.4

Posted: August 30, 2011

Some people have been experiencing issues with the latest version of Apple’s iTunes software. There are various symptoms including slowness of your computer system and even overheating (mostly on laptops). What most user’s have reported is that CPU usage for the AppleMobileDeviceService.exe service either spikes, hogging a lot of resources, or it stays at a constant 25 percent of CPU usage for extended periods of time. I ran into this problem recently and here is what I did to fix the issue…

Windows Search Can Still Work

Posted: August 15, 2011

Microsoft has made a lot of significant changes from the way things worked in Windows XP to how they work now in Windows Vista and Windows 7. One of the most frustrating changes in my opinion is Windows Search. I used the search function in XP on a regular basis to do everything from a basic search for a file to more advanced things like searching for certain text within a file. In the effort to make things "simpler" Microsoft has removed the interface that used to allow you to do that.

Security 101: 6 Simple Steps To More Secure Computing

Posted: August 4, 2011

Security is one of those topics that is all too often ignored by the general computing public to their own detriment. I have put together a very simple, common sense list of steps you can take to keep yourself a little more secure while enjoying the benefits of today’s connected computing world.

Create Shutdown & Restart Icons for Vista/Win 7 on the Desktop

Posted: June 1, 2010

If you are not too thrilled with the Windows Vista/7 shutdown menus or just want the convenience of having those options on your desktop it’s pretty simple to do.

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