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When Microsoft first announced that Windows 10 was going to be free for people who are currently using either Windows 7 or 8.1, lots of folks did the happy dance.
After all, for the first time ever, a major new Windows upgrade was being released to the masses for free.
I still think the free Windows 10 upgrade offer is awesome, but I also believe taking advantage of it should be optional. But as it turns out, Microsoft apparently doesn’t agree with me. [Read more…]
Do you enjoy riding a bicycle, but wish your weary legs could take an occasional break from pedaling?
Do you long for a fun, safe and economical way to get from Point A to Point B?
Does most of your traveling involve scurrying around town to pick up a few items at the grocery store, visiting the library or making a short commute to work?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you need to check out the awesome Jetson Electric Bike!
The Jetson Electric Bike isn’t a motorcycle or a moped. It’s an honest-to-goodness bicycle that just happens to have an electric motor on it. [Read more…]
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…]