I was looking into alternative forms of advertising last night and I started thinking about Facebook again.  I decided to do a little investigation and found that Facebook offers a program called Social Ads. They allow you to choose either a Cost Per Click (CPC) model or a Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM) model.  For each [...]

This article is for all of you that may have a computer sitting around that lives in an old, ugly…probably creme colored case.  I know there are plenty of you out there.  Luckily, with a little time and a few supplies, you can have your computer looking and feeling younger in no time!  I’ve bolded [...]

Hundreds of computer users sell their used computer systems everyday.  Why?  Well, because computers systems become out-dated…everyday.  Whether it be at a garage sale, on eBay or just to a friend, computers are constantly changing hands.  Sometimes however, users fail to realize that when they sell their old system, they could also be selling a [...]

Let me start off by saying that I realize making a statement as bold as the one in the title is blasphemy in the I.T. world, and I also realize that at this very moment I’m probably being brought up on charges of high treason by my fellow computer guru’s, but aside from all that [...]

It’s 7:30AM, you just woke up and realized that you forgot to print out that ten page research paper on the eating habits of bighorn sheep.  You rush over to your computer and one glance at your screen makes your heart sink-you see the dreaded blue screen.  After a few attempted restarts, you find that your [...]

With a new year upon us, college students everywhere are going to be looking to rent and sublet apartments before the summer.  Naturally whenever there are large amounts of money and property changing hands, there is bound to be fraud.  This past weekend I was alerted to a type of online scam targeting college students [...]

Here is a quick method for switching between Stand By and Hibernations modes on Windows.  The main difference between these modes is power usage.  Hibernate will keep an image stored on your hard drive of everything that was open and running before cutting power completely to the system.  Stand By also kills power to most [...]

In an on-going attempt to make users ever more cognizant of phishing scams and online identity theft, I have found an interesting article on Wired.com (curteousy of Digg) that explains a very new and dangerous phishing threat to Facebook users.  According to the article, hackers have discovered a way to post seemingly harmless messages (from what [...]

WindowsXP Pro and certain implementations of Windows Vista have a fun little feature known as file encryption.  On WindowsXP Pro, this feature is called EFS or Encrypted File System and can be implemented on the file or folder level by right clicking on said file/folder, selecting properties, followed by advanced and selecting “Encrypt contents to [...]