Time for a Change
I’ll be switching computers very soon. This old Lenovo has served me well but with this BIOS clock going off every day and crazy restarts happening, I think it is time to get a new computer and transfer my data over while it is still alive! (Plus my husband wants to get a new computer [...]
Read MoreEncrypt Your USB Drive
I lost my 8GB SD card recently. Hunted for it in my laptop, in the camera, in my secret compartment in my backpack, but alas, it was gone. There was only one place it could be now, and that was in my mother’s laptop, which I had used to copy some photos over for her. [...]
Read MoreComputer Spy Mama
I reckon 15 years down the road, the kids would be sitting at their computers (networked and setup by me unless they take such an interest in computing like me… but I digress), chatting with their friends and having a whole world open to them that I don’t know about. Or do I? Aha! Enter [...]
Read MoreDeath by Spam
I finally bade farewell to my Yahoo email, setting it into its grave. It was a long and fruitful relationship but spammers got to it. I had used it as my website contact years ago but quickly switched to typing the various spam avoidance configurations such as emailaddress[at]yahoo.com, emailaddress[at]yahoo dot com, and even emailaddressNOSPAM[at]yahoo dot [...]
Read MoreThe Annual Backup Extravaganza
Okay, I really should do this more often but with the 2 kids, all my time online is spent enjoying my time, not staring at stuff being transferred from my laptop to HD, etc etc… So one afternoon on some year, I’ll distract the kids and get everything on my computer backed up on various [...]
Read MoreWoW – the Fix
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did. In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under [...]
Read MoreWoW Woes
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch. Now when I restarted it, the News page [...]
Read MoreSafety First
Truly, there is no such thing as an absolutely safe place, whether online or in real life. Just as a determined and skilled burglar can break into any residence possible, so can the most protected site be hacked, given enough time and resources. For every secure system out there, there’s a bunch of talented and [...]
Read MoreDNS Attacks in Seconds
Although this is apparently already fixed, it is worth being extra cautious when visiting any link. It may be redirected without your knowledge. Read Gaping Internet security hole discovered The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
