Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.
I reckon 15 years down the road, the kids would be sitting at their computers (networked and setup by me unless they take such an interest in computing like me… but I digress), chatting with their friends and having a whole world open to them that I don’t know about.
Or do I? Aha! Enter Computer [...]
I finally bade farewell to my Yahoo email, setting it into its grave. It was a long and fruitful relationship but spammers got to it.
I had used it as my website contact years ago but quickly switched to typing the various spam avoidance configurations such as emailaddress[at]yahoo.com, emailaddress[at]yahoo dot com, and even emailaddressNOSPAM[at]yahoo dot [...]
Okay, I really should do this more often but with the 2 kids, all my time online is spent enjoying my time, not staring at stuff being transferred from my laptop to HD, etc etc… So one afternoon on some year, I’ll distract the kids and get everything on my computer backed up on various [...]
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did.
In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, [...]
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch.
Now when I restarted it, the News page refused [...]
Truly, there is no such thing as an absolutely safe place, whether online or in real life. Just as a determined and skilled burglar can break into any residence possible, so can the most protected site be hacked, given enough time and resources. For every secure system out there, there’s a bunch of talented and [...]
Although this is apparently already fixed, it is worth being extra cautious when visiting any link. It may be redirected without your knowledge.
Read Gaping Internet security hole discovered
The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines [...]
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