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Adobe Flash has been used to create some of the best content on the web for decades, and their Flash Player has been downloaded billions of times over the years. But that is about to come to an end.
Hackers have been finding and exploiting security holes in Flash faster than Adobe can patch them, and that has led many of us who follow these things to recommend disabling Flash on your computers in order to avoid malware attacks. [Read more…]
VTech is a major toy manufacturer, and if you have children chances are they own at least one of their toys. In fact, it’s a pretty good bet that they do.
If your kids do own a VTech toy, you (and they) might also have accounts with the VTech Learning Lodge, an online repository for educational apps and games.
Well, the VTech Learning Lodge’s computers have been hacked, and if both you and your child have accounts there the hackers now have your child’s name, age, birth date and mailing address. That means if your family’s mailing address is also your physical address, the hackers now know where your child lives. [Read more…]
In the world of computing, it’s pretty much a given that the fastest desktops will out-perform the fastest laptops, but there’s a new laptop from the folks at MSI that beats most desktops in head-to-head tests.
The MSI GT80 Titan SLI-258 is a veritable beast of a machine that features a blazing fast Intel 2.7 GHz Core i7 CPU and an NVIDIA Geforce GTX970M SLI graphics co-processor with 12GB of dedicated video RAM to create a truly awesome user experience. [Read more…]
Everyone knows that some of the best bargains of the year can be found while shopping on Black Friday, and chances are you plan on joining in on some of the local Black Friday events.
But if you’d rather skip the crowds on Friday morning, Amazon is giving you the chance to snag some pretty amazing Black Friday deals
First of all, let me say that I really appreciate Microsoft’s generosity in letting Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users upgrade their PCs to Windows 10 for free.
That being said, they made the upgrade process a bit tedious for users who wished to do a clean install of Windows 10 on their machines instead of doing a simple in-place upgrade.
For whatever reason they designed the upgrade process in a way that required you to first upgrade your existing Windows 7 or 8.1 installation to Windows 10, then wipe the drive and reinstall Windows 10 using your old Windows Product Key. What on earth were they thinking? [Read more…]