SOFTWARE: Created a list of anti-malware site for an e-friend

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Here’s a list of FREE anti-malware sites. You may need them all.

Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.aspx

Spybot-S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

Avira AntiVir http://www.avira.com/en/free-download-avira-antivir-personal

avast! http://download.cnet.com/Avast-Free-Antivirus/3000-2239_4-10019223.html?part=dl-85737&subj=dl&tag=button

Panda Cloud Antivirus http://acs.pandasoftware.com/cloud/PandaCloudAntivirus.exe

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SOFTWARE: ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug

Saturday, December 4, 2010

ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug … …

… … it lost the left column of the main screen that allows you to select the blog you want to post to. Nothing on the support site and I know they take days to reply. So, I tool a change and reinstalled.

Problem solved.

The MACBOOKAIR has to go in again. (Monday?)

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SOFTWARE: Ubuntu Live CD for windows trouble

Saturday, July 24, 2010

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-reasons-windows-user-ubuntu-live-cd/

4 Reasons Every Windows User Should Have An Ubuntu Live CD
by Justin Pot on Jul. 21st, 2010

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Think Ubuntu is useless? Think again. Ubuntu can be an extremely effective tool for repairing and working on computers, even if you consider yourself a Windows purist. This is because Ubuntu is capable of loading completely from a Ubuntu Live CD, giving you access to your computer in ways Windows can’t – or when Windows is completely broken.

For this reason, I suggest every Windows user keeps a copy of Ubuntu on hand, even if they never intend to switch from Windows. Happily, Ubuntu is completely free to aquire. You can download Ubuntu and burn it yourself, but if that sounds like too much work you can request Ubuntu send you a Ubuntu Live CD for free.

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I’ve used the “live” cd method several times.

In especially bad infestations of malware, I’ve installed Ubuntu then immediately reinstalled windoze. Everyone swore up and down it couldn’t happen but I’ve seen a complete windoze reformat, reinstall, and immediate reinfection. Without a connection to any network. The first thing we did with this “pariah machine” was to isolate it from everything. It had the equivalent a hospital cure-resistant infection. My assumption is that that something bad was written in the Master Boot Record. The disk image was a total loss. The Ubuntu distribution we used, not a “live cd”, actually wrote a new MBR. That eliminated the problem. If I’d been smart, I’d have swapped the drive out and gotten someone to dump the MBR for further study. Maybe I’d have become famous, made a fortune, and gotten thin. Yeah, I know wistful thinking.

Bottom line, you should have the live dc around as insurance.

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SOFTWARE: Falling back to FIREFOX3 from Chrome

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Two items:

(1) No color tabs and other flaws in the tabs

(2) CARINGBRIDGE has a journal update window. Under Chrome, when you hit return it move the cursor back to the top. Too annoying to tolerate.

Falling back. Argh!

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SOFTWARE: Trying Safari5 (It’s free!)

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Apple today released Safari 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser. This release features the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30-percent performance increase over Safari 4, and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo!, or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites.

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Downloaded and am trying it now. No science; just feel. Seems snappy. Have the Fox and Chrome. Who needs three browsers?

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SOFTWARE: TextExpander problem

Sunday, March 21, 2010

TextExpander had a brain fart. Somehow all my snippets were wiped out.

Again!

Argh!

Don’t know why? Again!

I tried to find the correct file to restore. (Didn’t write it down last time.)

So, as usual, the fat old white guy injineer had his own recovery plan.

I built the import files so that I could recover it.

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I’m sorry to hear that. You’ll need to restore your snippets from your backup:
1. Visit the TextExpander system preferences
2. Click the Preferences tab
3. Hold the Option key and click “Enable TextExpander” (which will kill TextExpander’s background process)
4. Quit System Preferneces
5. Restore this file from your backup:
[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander
6. Visit the Preferences tab of the TextExpander system preferences
7. Click “Enable TextExpander”
Thanks for using TextExpander from SmileOnMyMac!
Regards,
TextExpander Support

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My way is faster. I think.

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SOFTWARE: TEXTEXPANDER good but dangerous

Friday, February 19, 2010

After my visit to the Apple store for them to replace my Mac Book Air display, I found that TEXTEXPANDER had “lost its mind”. All my registration and abbreviations were gone.

Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! No real backup. Argh!

I started the rebuild from an old old print and griped at the maker. Software; not THE Maker! Please, no lightening bolt for me. Surely not for something so trivial as lost data. Lost date maybe; lost partial data not so much.

Here’s their response.

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Sorry about that, on rare occasions TextExpander can reset. If you have v 2.8 then there is a backup in TextExpander. Go to:

[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander

That Settings.textexpander file is what you need to replace with a backup to restore your snippets and registration information. Also, you will see a SettingsBackup.textexpander. Rename that to Settings.textexpander when you need to restore your settings.

Thanks for using TextExpander from SmileOnMyMac!

Regards,

TextExpander Support

http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander

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Another less that satisfying reply. At least next time it happens, I will know where to go and restore a file from my Time Machine. (It just keeps chugging away. I’m kinda looking forward to a bare metal restore. How’s that for over confidence?)

And, I’ll keep a weekly print of my abbreviations file.

My response to “support”:

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Too late. I already started rebuilding it.

Really need a explicit back up and recovery option. Over on window, my copy of ROBOFORM has a really nice UI. Explicit menu choice to BACKUP and RESTORE from a user chosen location. Suggest same.

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And not a WTx, Argh, or other expletive in it. (One small checkmark for the Final Judgement?)

So my opinion hasn’t changed much on TEXTEXPANDER. Great utility; dangerous as a falling knife.

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SOFTWARE: TEAMVIEWER recommended

Friday, February 12, 2010

When the screen died on my Mac Book Air, unless you twist the top bezel, I thought I was screwed until Apple can fix it.

1-3 days for parts; 1-3 days for repair.

Argh!

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SOFTWARE: IE6 days are numbered

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Dear Google Apps admin,​

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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SOFTWARE: MAC OSX 10.6.1 MAIL loses its mind

Monday, September 21, 2009

It begins reloading all mail again.

Argh!

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