 | Tip of the Week: How To Turn Off Reply All Microsoft Outlook users can avoid accidental replies to all by hiding the Reply All button (which is called Reply to All in Outlook 2003 and 2007). They can also set Outlook to delay the messages they send to give themselves a few seconds or minutes to catch their reply-all mistakes. Here's how to avoid hitting reply all. |
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 Headwhack of the Week: Testing For Bad Ram RAM sticks, known for their chip creep and random failures, are among the more annoying pieces of hardware to pinpoint as the source of a technical issue. Before you start digging around in the computer, it's best to start with a quick and free memory check via Windows. This way, you'll know whether or not it's worth swapping around sticks of RAM to see which one is the dud. Here's how to do it.
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Geek Speak of the Week: Bozo Filter
A feature supported by many e-mail programs and webmail systems that enables you to block out messages from specific individuals. The list of addresses that you want to block is called a 'bozo list' or 'kill file'. Bozo filters are one way to reduce spam. Spanky had to enable his Bozo Filter this week after requesting an individual stop emailing him. After multiple requests, 10 to be exact, the Bozo Filter was enabled.
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 Security: Graph Search | How To Protect Kids On Facebook With Facebook Graph Search rolling out, now is the time to go through your privacy settings and lock down things you've forgotten to lock down. But what about your kids accounts? How can you protect their privacy? Read the story here. |
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 News: Google Going Retail
We all know the success Apple has had with their 400 retail locations. So will the Apple model work for Google? The search giant could be opening a retail store near you. What would a Google Store sell? Read the story here. |
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 News: Spearphishing On The Rise It's a dirty trick, a email that looks legit and gets you. Spearphishing means that the message is more personal and with a company that the scammers know that you do business with.
If you get a bank warning message from a bank you don't do business with (general phishing), you are immediately suspicious of the scam; if you get a personally addressed message from a bank that you do or have done business with, you are much more likely to let your guard down and fall for the scam. Read the latest here.
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 Data Doctors Video: How To Clean Up Your Hard Drive What do you do when you run out of space? Deleting is OK, but do you have things backed up? Here are some common mistakes people make when cleaning up their hard drives to free up space. Watch what not to do.
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Mobile App of the Week: Voxer Voxer is more than just a Walkie-Talkie. Voxer allows you to easily and instantly communicate with one friend or a group of friends. Friends can listen to your message while you talk, or check audio messages later. Forget about separate phone calls, voicemails, text messages and emails. With Voxer you can instantly send audio, text, photos, and share your location. Get Voxer for Android. Get Voxer for iPhone.
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The Radio Program: A New Outlook, Google Stores, Protecting Kids & More SomeHotmail just got a new Outlook! Microsoft is retiring the old Hotmail email service, and replacing it with the newer, more streamlined, and far better Outlook.com service. With the success of Apple retail stores, is it possible that the search giant Google will follow in Apple's footsteps? With sales of over $10 billion a year, we're betting yes. With Facebook Graph Search rolling out, now is the time to go through your privacy settings and lock down things you've forgotten to lock down. But what about your kids accounts? How can you protect their privacy?
It's the tech show for non-tech people, the Data Doctors Radio Program. Ask your questions during (or before) the broadcast using our Facebook page. Join us each weekend as we discuss your computer questions.
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