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How to keep your children safe online…now that is an important question

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Recent downloads in Google Chrome explained…

If you are like me, you are doing 10 things at one time in your job or at home.  I am a huge multi-tasker!  I also download many things from the internet with Google Chrome.  I seem to be constantly doing that.  What about you?

There are so many times that I say to myself…I wish I could  remember what I downloaded two days prior.   So, it made me think to write a post on how to show all my recent downloads in Google Chrome.  If you haven’t noticed from some of my other posts, I am a huge fan of Google Chrome.  Not only from a security standpoint but also from an ease of use and quickness point of view.

The way that Google Chromes displays your recent downloads is really nice and simple.  Having worked in Information Technology for over 20 years, I can say that it is always GREAT when a software manufacturer makes something easy to do.  That is certainly what Google has done with recent downloads AND it sorts them by date.  So if you remember, “I know that I downloaded that piece of software on Monday”, you can go to the recent downloads section and check it by date.

Let’s get to it….

1.  Open Google Chrome

2.  Click on the Wrench in the top right hand corner of Google Chrome

3.  Click on Downloads

4.  Now you will be shown all your recent downloads in Chrome sorted by date

That’s it.

I told you it was simple.  :-)

Hope this helps someone.

Happy computing!

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If you are like me, when you are surfing the internet, you probably have about 6 or 7 tabs open at the top of your browser screen viewing 6 0r 7 different website URL’s.  Then….I want to exit out of Firefox and have to tell my workstation don’t warn me before closing multiple tabs by clicking the dialog box that comes up.

I know there are some that say that they really like this precautionary measure about closing multiple tabs. Personally, I don’t like seeing the multiple tabs warning.  I do love having the multiple tabs at the top though AND I have three monitors to boot using the Matrox Triple Head2go device (which by the way is easy to setup and GREAT).  Can you say multi-tasking.  You are probably saying, what geek is not like this…ha.

Regardless if you like to close all tabs without a warning or not…here is how you do it.  Leave me a comment on what your preference is on this topic.  I would love to know.

1.  Open the Firefox internet browser  (You can download the newest version from here)

2.  Click on Tools (if you don’t have the menu bar, just click on the Firefox amber colored button in the top left corner and click Options and Menu Bar or you can watch my video at

http://youtu.be/KzrxiMU7_-I

be sure to  look around time frame 1:33)

3.  Click on Options

4.  Click on the Tabs Tab

5.  Click Warn me when closing multiple tabs

6.  Click OK

For a video of the above tip…..

http://youtu.be/M7ZoUPhG414

There you have it.  Simple as that.  Let’s go set our preferences.

You can also see here how to tell Firefox that you do not want to be tracked.  Just thought I would throw that one in for your viewing pleasure.

Happy computing!

Just thought I would show you an awesome Computer movie about Kevin Mitnick

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I really like to use the reading pane in Outlook 2010 to preview received emails prior to opening them. I think this option changed in Outlook 2007. I always try to teach new users of Outlook 2010 to use this option. Hopefully it helps them and will help you from accidentally clicking on a malicious link inside a phishing attempt email.

I can remember not that long ago, there was the thought not to use the reading pane as a preview to newly received email. There were a few drive by malware and virus threats that infected computers just by previewing the infected email. I feel that the new anti-virus programs out today will stop the vast majority of these threats. Just make sure that you have your anti-virus application is active on your computer AND up to date. I use an anti-virus program called ESET. What a fabulous application. Not only is it effective, but it does not slow my system down like some other well known applications.

Ok, how do you enable the Reading Pane in Outlook 2010?

1. Open Outlook 2010
2. Click on the View Tab at the top of the screen

Pretty straightforward way to setup your Reading pane in Outlook 2010.

Hope this helps someone!

Happy computing!

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