After my recent article about WinPatrol, long-time subscriber Al Soroka wrote about his experience with WinPatrol and WinPatrol Plus — and how they had helped protect his computer: I followed your recommendation last year and purchased & installed WinPatrol Plus. Earlier this year I purchased a new Kodak AIO printer and as part of their [...]
Deleting Auto-Complete Addresses in Outlook
I thought this one was pretty obvious, but apparently it wasn’t. I had a co-worker start routinely sending emails to my personal account instead of my work account, just because she had responded to an email from my iPhone. The problem was that, even once she recognized the problem, she continued to send the emails [...]
WinPatrol Plus Sale – $5
Bill P. is having a big sale on WinPatrol Plus — it’s Bill’s wife’s birthday, so he’s having a special birthday sale — only $5 to upgrade from the free WinPatrol to WinPatrol Plus. This is a "Special Experimental Sale" and is limited to one consumer order only. The sale is supposed to end Sunday [...]
Lojack for Laptops Premium – Holiday Special
I’ve used Lojack for Laptops on my notebook computers almost since I first heard about it years ago. Now, Absolute Software is running a Holiday Special: LoJack for Laptop Premium 1 Year SubscriptionBuy one – Get one Free to Gift — Offer Expires 12/24/11 Coupon Code: No Code – Click Here
Dragon Naturally Speaking Home Holiday Bundle $74.99
If you missed Nuance’s "Dragon Thursday" one-day sale on December 1, 2011, you’ve still got a chance for a great price on Dragon Naturally Speaking Home (for the PC) – or a good discount on the Premium Edition or on Dragon Dictate for the Mac. Dragon Naturally Speaking Home Edition 11.5, the latest, is on [...]
Thunderbird Feedback from Subscribers
Subscriber Keith C wrote from Australia to comment on my Thunderbird 8.0 article recently: This latest Thunderbird (8.0) is a truly solid release. I used to notice some issues with earlier versions similar to what your article mentions Terry eg errors when sorting mail. Nothing like that since, rock solid Mozilla stability. Thunderbird is a [...]
New Version of Thunderbird Email Program for Windows
As many of my readers are aware, I switched from Eudora Open Source Edition to Thunderbird recently. My particular issues were that Eudora OSE was based on Thunderbird, but a version well over a year old, while there had been a number of updates to Thunderbird during that time. Thunderbird had a minor update shortly [...]
VIPRE Internet Security 2012 Review – A First Look
New version of GFI’s VIPRE Antivirus Premium — now called VIPRE Internet Security 2012 — has been released I’ve been using versions of VIPRE since it was first released. Initially, VIPRE Antivirus+Antispyware was the program that grew out of Sunbelt Software’s CounterSpy (which I also used). Then, they combined their firewall product into it to [...]
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