by ajacobs12345 | Feb 8, 2019 | IT Tool
Your inbox gets flooded with spam. Where does it come from, and how do they get your email? Here’s how you can try to find out… You won’t be able to investigate existing spam, but here is how to track down the source if you use a gmail address. For...
by ajacobs12345 | Jan 9, 2019 | IT Silliness, IT Tool
This is a cautionary tale! Paul Manafort’s attorneys filed a document that was improperly redacted. You can open the actual document (link below), copy the redacted lines and paste them in to a Word document to reveal the text underneath. The black highlighter...
by ajacobs12345 | Jan 3, 2019 | IT Tool, Microsoft
This morning I opened Windows Snipping tool, and got this interesting message that Snipping Tool is moving. My immediate reaction was “Hmm… I need to take a snip of that so I can come back to it later.” But then… “how do you snip Windows...
by ajacobs12345 | Dec 29, 2018 | IT Tool, Microsoft
I bet you ran in to this over the Holidays. “My laptop is SO slow!” When you look at it, you discover Cousin Edith is storing her Documents /pictures/music on the c: partition, which in her lousy laptop was set up to be only for the OS. The user data was...
by ajacobs12345 | Dec 28, 2018 | IT Tool
There are many remote access tools – Team Viewer, Logmein, GotomyPC, and even RDP, VNC and Chrome Remote Desktop. My recent tool of choice is AeroAdmin. This neat little tool gets it all done. It can be free, if you don’t use it too much. It can be set in...
by ajacobs12345 | Dec 26, 2018 | IT Tool
One of my favorite applications is PortableApps. I have mine on a USB on my key chain at all times. It has all my favorite utilities on it, including Revo Uninstaller, CCleaner, Process Explorer and FileZilla. Just pop the USB into a PC, and all your tools are right...
