Image via Wikipedia It’s the saddest of days: a computer screen flickers, unable to sustain its own pixels; a keyboard stutters out commands; and all applications suddenly disintegrate, undone by invaders that can’t be seen. Your system has been infected -- and a download was the cause. This could have been avoided, though, if simple precautions had been taken: Identify Sources Downloading files is an undeniable ease. It's also, however, an undeniable temptation for hackers. Malware, viruses and Trojan codes can all be hidden within files -- leaving you vulnerable … [Read more...]
Using Websites to Download
March 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
If you have been online in the past few years, you have no doubt noticed that for as many of the Napster imitators as there are out there, there are also a whole lot of different websites which make the process of downloading just about anything that you might want equally easy. While these websites are not a computer program which makes things so easy you just set it and forget it (as the old infomercials used to say), they are most definitely a good idea in regard to making it about as easy to download something as it is to point, right click and choose a folder. After all, why do you … [Read more...]
SLR and Regular Digital Cameras: Your Choice
March 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
There are some very important distinctions between regular digital cameras and SLR cameras. These differences may not be as apparent to a novice user, but they are definitely noticeable when your results really count. This is why they make two different varieties of cameras, after all. Naturally, both of these types of camera can be used to snap off a couple of pictures here and there. If that is your only objective, you should have no need of an SLR, since an ordinary digital camera should be perfectly fine to handle that kind of fairly light duty. However, if you want to go into more … [Read more...]
Downloading With a Program
March 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
Everybody who knows much about the history of the online world has heard about Napster. And while it was ultimately shut down in court (despite heralding an entirely new age of the Internet as an egalitarian democracy where people connect to other people), it has spawned many imitators and homages over the ensuing years. While many of these programs do not actually share the files that they spread between individual users, what they actually do is really far easier. Simply put, there are repositories for music, games, movies, and all of the other content which people love to download, and … [Read more...]