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 [...]

I have been noticing this more and more lately and it has finally bothered me enough to cause me to want to write about it.  What i’m talking about is the insane number of groups that are springing up, almost every day on Facebook, started by people who have broken or lost their cell phones [...]

Here’s an interesting piece of information that I was made aware today; apparently if you enter the equation “=850*77.1″ into Excel 2007, you will not be given the correct answer of 65,535 but instead, a completely ridiculous answer of 100,000.  Seeing as there are plenty of people and organizations that use Excel on a daily basis [...]

As you may already know, when using Windows XP if you wish to change the password of a user on the system, you will need to know the current password for that user.  This technique is commonly implemented in order to stop people from arbitrarily changing other peoples passwords.  Sometimes, however, this little function can be [...]

In a continuing effort to help people fix some of their own simple computer problems, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about Windows safe mode, how to enter it and how to use it.  Safe mode is a feature of Windows that allows users to enter the operating system without having [...]