Did you get a new computer for Christmas? Are you setting up a new computer for someone? We got a list of free programs that you should put on the new computer for the not-techie person and a list for the techie person.
The first thing you need to do is uninstall all those programs that come on the computer that are shareware and trialware and just advertisements. Directions for removing all this junk software is in a great PCWorld article.
Don’t forget that SOPA and Protect-IP Bills, they are not dead and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) are not giving up. To learn more about these Bills you can read more from our post on Nov. 16th, or you can check our the Wikipedia article or at the American Censorship Website. To have your voice heard on SOPA and Protect-IP click on the following links to help send a letter to congress.
*Letter to House Representative on Stop Online Privacy Act.
*Letter to Senator on Protect IP Act.
WikiHow is on collaborative online how-to guide. This is a useful site that you can use to send customers to in helping them with DIY resolutions. They often have step-by-step directions, and sometime videos on how to do something. While the website covers many different categories they have an extensive section on Computers and Electronics. For those of us in the Computer and Electronics support fields it might help us to look through this area.
Since WikiHow allows user submissions, it can also be a great place to share your expertise with the world. Visit their website at www.WikiHow.com.
Hak5 is a video podcast on the Revision3 network. Hak5 is a show about computer and network security, Do-It-Yourself, home-brew, open source, and generally just wanting to know how and why things work. They speed a lot of time explaining how easy it is to hack into a network (lately mostly wireless network) to show how easy it is unless you take the necessary steps to be secure.
Hak5 is a weekly show hosted by Darren Kitchen, co-hostess is Shannon Morse, and the occasional guest. The same people bring up HakTip a bi-weekly show that is a shortened version of Hak5.
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