Jul 13, 2017 | business, mail, security
The bad guys aren’t kidding around. They’re after you. Some day soon you will be walking down the street and a 400 pound hacker will galumph out and make a scary face and shout, “Give me all the passwords in your wallet!” and stomp off cackling and steal all your...
Oct 20, 2016 | business, mail, news, security
Yahoo is in free fall. It is negotiating a sale of its Internet business to Verizon but that sale is in jeopardy, likely at least to be renegotiated to lower the price by one or two billion dollars and perhaps on the verge of collapse into acrimony and lawsuits. In...
Jun 16, 2016 | Azure, domains, mail, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, photos, Skype, web_services, Windows10
(2020/10/08 – click here for an updated, shorter, less snarky version of this article.) Microsoft has two different types of accounts. Many of you have credentials – an email address and password – for both of them. Years of marketing and branding blunders have...
Feb 28, 2016 | mail, Office, security
Are you scared yet? You should be quaking every time you sit down at your computer. It gets worse every day. Locky is the latest virus sweeping the globe. It arrives as a Word or Excel email attachment that appears to be an invoice. When you open it, the contents are...
Jan 12, 2016 | Android, Apple, iPad, mail, mobile, Office 365, phone
Chances are that you’re using the email and calendar apps that came with your iPhone or Android phone. They’re fine. No shame there. But you’re missing an app from Microsoft that does a better job. It’s named Outlook, because Microsoft cannot resist using the same...
Aug 23, 2015 | mail, Office, Office 365, Office tips, Outlook
Here’s a tip about an Outlook feature that only a few people will appreciate – but if you’re one of those people, you might like it a lot. If you sort your incoming email into folders, a simple change will result in your replies being filed automatically in the same...
