Tech Tips

January 2004

Popup Blockers

by Barbara J. Feldman January 27, 2004

If you are plagued with an overwhelming number of popups, the culprit is either a website you are visiting or software unwittingly installed on your machine. To remove ad serving software, try Ad-Aware. To block website popups as they occur, there are popup blockers built into the Google Toolbar and Alexa Toolbar. Both toolbars collect [...]

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Sending Text Messages

by Barbara J. Feldman January 20, 2004

To send a text message from your computer to a cell phone used to require that you knew the recipient’s cell phone provider and the exact syntax of their address, such as 1234567890@mobile.att.net. But with Telefilp you can reach almost all mobile phones with one easy to remember syntax: 1234567890@telefilp.com . The Telefilp service is [...]

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Temporary Internet Files

by Barbara J. Feldman January 13, 2004

Temporary Internet files are local storage of web pages that you’ve visited which are used to speed loading them a second time. Deleting them periodically is a good habit, as it saves disk space and prevents a variety of small annoyances that can be caused by a full cache. In Internet Explorer, delete them by [...]

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Phishing

by Barbara J. Feldman January 6, 2004

Phishing (also known as carding or brand spoofing) is a type of e-mail fraud that tries to get you to divulge sensitive financial information such as a credit card number or account password. To learn more, read this definition from Webopedia ( http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html ) and this alert from the Federal Trade Commission ( http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/phishingalrt.htm ).

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