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Computer Tips For the Week.
More Net Safety
Did you know that e-mails sent using Hotmail, G-mail and Yahoo mail are open to the owners of those systems? They
can read them and use them as they see fit. The contents can be used to direct suitable spam mail to the sender’s email
address. It is all in the Terms of Contract, which nobody ever bothers to read.
As for using IncrediMail – that is an absolute no no if you are sending e-mails to anyone you love or care for. Enemies
- Yes. Friends and relations – No. As a matter of interest, the editor of this newsletter has, for a number of years used
a “filter” to block e-mails sent from any computer using IncrediMail. They go straight into the “Spam” folder and often
don’t even get noticed. Apart from great, great grand-ma, who wants to send a lot of waving hands and opening mouths
with an e-mail why would anyone install a memory intensive and intrusive bit of software on their computer? Interesting
to note that lately if you do open an e-mail created in IncrediMail, you can end up with toolbars on your web browser that
you did not ask for.Why would anyone other than the Police or Netsafe organisations be interested in what websites you
visit on the Internet? Work it out for yourself.
Microsoft Announces Retirement Date for Windows XP
April 8 2014 will not only be the 15th anniversary of windows XP, but it’ll also be
when “it’ll be put to sleep”. After that date, no more security updates or support. With
over 400 million copies in use as of January 2006, XP was eventually succeeded by
Windows Vista in 2007, making XP one of Microsoft’s most successful versions of
Windows ever.
With Windows 8 due for release at the end of October this year, it is time to start
budgeting for replacement of that old reliable PC that has given such sterling service over the last 8 or more years.
Even if you only want a PC to surf the net and use online e-mail services, buying one with Windows XP as the operating
system is probably not a good investment. When Microsoft stop supporting an operating system (OS), other software
developers soon stop including that OS in their own software updates. Try reading a web page today with a computer
running Windows 98 or ME. It is a great insight into just how far and fast the computer world has changed in a few short
years. Putting aside hardware failures which become more likely as the internals of the computer age, trying to use an
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