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Panda Cloud Antivirus Solution.

It’s becoming a problem all over the world, where you are constantly trying to keep your computer running virus-free. It’s getting harder and harder all of the time and now we even find some of the ads for Antivirus and Malware security software are really Malware themselves, causing our computers to run slower and slower.

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Computer Security: Those pesky Adobe updates.

This article is not an indictment or a critique of the security Adobe products. What this article aims to do is show the reader how easy it is to update Adobe products.

All computer users encounter numerous popups about updating this or that piece of software or operating system on their computer and I now see [...]

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Computer Security

Hackers, Computer security, and the basics on protecting yourself, and your systems online.

To me computer security really means the securing and backup of all devices connected to the internet or used to store your information. Securing the device also means keeping the hardware and software well maintained.

Recently we have seen the company HBGary Federal brought [...]

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Computer Parasites

What are computer parasites?

‘Parasite’ is a shorthand term for “unsolicited commercial software.” Computer parasites are an unwanted program that gets installed on your computer which you never asked for, and which performs tasks for someone else’s profit.*

Computer Parasites or unsolicited software can cause the following problems.

Causes unwanted advertising pop ups.
Can track URL’s of websites you [...]

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Computer Maintenance Tips

The following tips are intended to help you maintain your computer in top working condition.

DO NOT turn your computer off with the power switch, use the Windows shut down feature. I see way to many people use this method. Why? Windows cleans up temporary files and cleanly closes programs as it shuts down, minimizing the [...]

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RSS feeds for Apple Mac OSX - Apple Mail

Continuing our beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS on Apple OSX.

Today’s article is the second part of our series on using RSS feeds. If you have not read part one then please do so before continuing.

Today we will look at Apple Mail running on the latest version of OSX, Snow Leopard. In the next [...]

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A beginner's guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

A beginner’s guide to Really Simple Syndication or RSS.

Today’s article is the first in a series of short but informative articles on how to use a tool to collect information from different websites and bring them to your desktop for easy review and access.

So let’s begin this series with a simple question: what exactly is an [...]

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Day two with my new MacBook Pro.

Day two of the new Mac is fairing much better than day one! I have found several Open Source packages that seem to fit into the Mac OSX desktop rather nice.

For FTP I chose Cyberduck which is a straight forward FTP client that was quite simple to setup and use.

For text editors I have [...]

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Purchased an Apple MacBook Pro

I bought my first Apple MacBook Pro this week! And since I have customers who ask about switching from Microsoft Windows to Apple Mac OSX, I wanted to share with my readers a few items that I have encountered with using the new system.

The first day was spent manually downloading the system updates from Apple and exploring the desktop. Normally these [...]

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Online Backups and Remote Desktop Support are coming soon!

This week has been a busy one, working on leads trying to find new clients, support of existing clients, trying to help a nine year old with homework, and the other tasks that life presents to all of us, but I wanted to take this time to present a few updates on what MLD Services will bring to our [...]

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