What are your dislikes about the Internet

Hi People

The Internet is growning at a phenomenal rate.  It is growing so many branches.  Social Media aside, you have the shopping facet, the information facet, the email facet and access to downloads of all sorts of goodies (paid and free).

Of course this opening up of the vast social media playground,  has left everyone exposed to the nasty side of the internet, but I am not going to go down that route.

Look at this link

http://www.pcworld.com/article/207601-2/8_things_we_still_hate_about_the_web.html

The article voices concerns over a number of

Many have concerns about the internet, based around identity theft.

Placing so much personal information on the internet, in the care of impersonal servers, run by people (who I am sure are totally trustworthy and very pleasant human beings) that are watching the stats, and angling for more subscribers.

There has to be a limit on what they can oversee and protect.

Consider the same scenario as a creche or nursery, there has to be a ratio of carers/teachers to youngsters.

If this situation were applied to the server farm that you have graciously allowed to harbour your intimate details, then there would likely be a air of major concern.

Whilst many reading this are probably thinking 'scare mongering', but time will show if the incidence of identity theft rises exponentially on not, as the social networking storm reaches out to all corners of planet earth.

With sincere hopes that this is not the case, because it will start to turn, (what is truely a wonderful way to communicate with all peoples of race, culture and creed), the medium into a worldwide black market.





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Hi People

Take a look at the link below, it appears that Microsoft products are full of 'holes' that can be (if not already) severely compromised
http://vista.blorge.com/2010/10/13/patch-tuesday-brings-another-record/

The situation is becoming more and more of an issue, and the programs being exploited, are any that have possible access to the internet or that is involved with the security of a computer using a Microsoft OS.

My advice (for what you may consider its worth) is that you consider alternatives to the Microsoft products on your computer.

My suggestions for alternatives are :

• Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer - Google Chrome is a clean, few frills browser with a 'sandbox' between you and the internet.  This adds another level of security to your browser.
• VLC media player instead of Windows Media Player - It is open source so it is free, with many users adding to it all the time.  It also contains a DVD player, which doesn't require a third party codec to play the films.
• OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office - Again it is open source and free. It reads and writes Word, Excel and Powerpoint files. It also allows you to create a PDF file, so that when you have completely finished a document (no further editing required), then you can create it as a PDF so no one can change it.
• Superantispyware instead of  Defender/Microsoft Essentials - A third party antispyware product is going to be less of a target than anything from Microsoft.
• Yahoo Messenger instead of  MS Messenger
• Thunderbird instead of Outlook Express or Outlook

So there are alternatives to many vulnerable Microsoft programs and most are totally free.  Consider them carefully as you may well need to be less of a target for hackers and other internet nasties.

See you next time

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The 'Arrange Icons By' Options

Hi People

Did you try the tip on the last post?

If you did you would have seen much more than what we dealt with.

I mean look at the picture below,  the Arrange Icons By
(Note here that you left click to set an option - a tick will appear when an option is set - see below)

The Right Click Options  From The Desktop - The 'Arrange Icons By ' section

As you can see there are a lot more options, so let's go through them.

The Sort By Section
The top four items are the sort order, which allow you to sort your desktop items by Name, Size, Type, or Modified.




The first three are probably quite self explanatory (type is the type of file it is for example a program file, a shortcut for a picture, or drive).

The 'modified' option is the one which may cause some scratching of heads.
It refers to how recently the files have been used.  This might need a bit of explanation. OK, so when a file (or folder) is created, the date and time is kept as TWO values (the 'creation' date/time and the 'modified' date/time - exactly the same at the start).  Now every time the file is used the 'modified' values for date/time are changed to the exact date/time it was opened..

Next up the Arrangement Section


The 'Show in Groups' is greyed out and not available on the diagram.
The 'Auto Arrange' option will move all the icons ( in the order set in the Sort By Section), as far left and then down the desktop.  Any icon moved will pop back to the group on being dropped.

The 'Align to Grid' will place each icon at a set distance from its neighbours.  The 'Grid' is invisible and inactive unless this option is ticked.

The Other Options Section


You may be surprised to learn that you can actually have all your icons removed (visibly) from the desktop.  To do this just left click on the 'Show Desktop Icons' (this will remove the tick next to 'Show Desktop Icons')

The 'Lock Web Items on Desktop' option is only if you have used the 'Web' tab on the 'Customise' button from the 'Properties' menu (more on this on a later post).

Finally you can 'Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard' which will remove the little used icons from the desktop for you.

So there you have it so far

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