Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]
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 [...]
I Dumped Eudora OSE
I changed one of my everyday software programs this week. I wrote about a year ago concerning Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition), a new open-source version of Eudora that is based on the Thunderbird email program from the Mozilla Foundation. After a few days of running my old Eudora program in parallel with Eudora OSE, [...]
Thunderbird to the Rescue!
Thunderbird, from the Mozilla Foundation and sometimes called Mozilla Thunderbird, is my new email program of choice. I had tried Thunderbird several years ago, but didn’t use it because I couldn’t do some of the things that I did with Eudora. About a year ago, I switched from Eudora to Eudora OSE, which was built [...]
Saving a Web Page to Your Hard Drive
Subscriber Chester wrote to ask how to save a web page so he could access it again in the future: Terry, how do I save a web page to thumbdrive or place on the computer? Help That’s a pretty good question, but the underlying question is "why would you want to do this?" Unless you’re [...]
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