At midnight tonight, the Conficker Worm is set to unleash itself on the world. Conficker also know as Worm:Win32/Conficker.D appeared in late 2008. When the clock turns 12:00 AM on 04/01/2009 the worm will start searching a randomized list of [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Tip for March 27, 2009: Anniversary Extravaganza!
It’s hard for me to believe, but Friday TechTips is now one year old. It began with an email tip highlighting the sync abilities of Microsoft’s Foldershare (which has since been re-branded Windows Live Sync). Since then we’ve covered photo [...]
Tip for March 20, 2009: State of Data = Mobile
Earlier this week comScore, a data measuring and marketing company located in Reston, VA, released a report which further documents the continuing explosion of data access via mobile devices. From January 2008 – January 2009, mobile data usage more than [...]
Tip for March 13, 2009: PDFs, Attachments, and Browsers, Oh My!
Good Friday afternoon! Today’s tip is going to have you slicing and dicing through work documents like a brand new set of Ginsu Knives. Our first tool is PDF to Word from NitroPDF. It’s a free service which converts your [...]
Tip for March 6, 2008: Foxmarks (soon to be Xmarks)!
Good Friday afternoon! In the Friday TechTip for January 16, 2009 we reviewed the benefits of Firefox and a few of the essential add-ons. One of my favorites which I automatically install on each computer I use is Foxmarks. Up [...]