I hear from a lot of people they don’t want to be a part of social media, that it’s a waste of time. I agree to an extent. For example, I trimmed back my personal Facebook account from 200+ people to basically just family members. Facebook is a great way to post a family happening…
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How a Computer Techie Got Hacked
Mat Honan is a senior writer at Wired Magazine, one of the preeminent journals of technology. You would think someone in his field would be ‘hacker proof’. He was, with a combination of hacking and exploitation of telephone support security policies. What happened to Mat could happen to anyone and everyone. Apple and Amazon have…
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Another Bust of a Malware Attack. Way to Freak Out My Customers, Media. Thanks.
As published on the Dunwoody Patch website. By Adam Freedman Another Monday, another paralyzing overhyped paranoia from our friends in the media. The FBI was shutting down DNS servers that directed infected computers from accidentally venturing to the dark side of the internet. By shutting them down, the infected computers that utilized these servers would…
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It’s good to be back…
As published on the Dunwoody Patch website. By Adam Freedman I need to be angry and apparently hypoglycemic to blog. My Mom has had an iPhone for years. She also has an iPad. To keep up with his wife, my dad got an iPad and an iPhone this weekend. This was all I needed. The…
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Ho Ho Ho, Time To Buy A Laptop
As published on the Dunwoody Patch website. By Adam Freedman The number one question I get around the holidays is "Hey, Adam, where do I buy a new laptop and which one would you buy?" I like Costco. 90 Days to return electronics, no questions asked. 2 Year hardware warranty instead of your standard 1…
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Cord Cutting, Dunwoody PC Style
As published on the Dunwoody Patch website. By Adam Freedman A couple of months ago when my wife and I decided that for $216 a month + the surprising electricity costs of 5 U-Verse boxes, and we would love for our all in one U-Verse residential gateway to not reboot itself on a regular basis,…
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Computer, Email, & Website Passwords
Don’t use the same password for your email that you use for anything else. Why? Guess what happens if someone hacks your email? They now have your password that they could (but probably won’t) try on other web sites. Several large websites have gotten hacked recently like Sony. If you use the same login for…
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When to Repair/Replace a Computer
Consumer Reports has said that if a computer breaks in the first 2 years, fix it, in the second two years, think about it based upon price of repair, and after that, chuck it into Lake Lanier. Well, dispose of it the right way (see above). I think this is a little aggressive but it…
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IPads and Tablets
Apparently Apple does have competitors for their tablets. Since Costco and Apple aren’t the best of friends right now, you can find no less than 3 competitors for iPads there. I still don’t know anyone who’s got one, but I am sure that they are selling them. I am going to be selling my iPad…
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What To Do When Your Email Gets Hacked
If you feel that someone has broken into your email account and sent out emails to people in your address book, there are a few questions to determine to what level of hacking has occurred and how to respond effectively and efficiently. First of all, where are the contacts located that are getting the SPAM…
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