Monday, November 29, 2010

Winner’s and Losers for 2010

Hope you all survived Thanksgiving and had a good time while doing it. Tech news and views inevitably slow down during the holiday season. But, I do manage to find some interesting news and usually lots of free software you might find useful…so stay tuned.

If you like games, light-weight or serious, be sure and look at the “Best Free PC Games” article. There are a ton of games in their, including some solitaire games. Enjoy.

JRC

Tech's Biggest Winners and Losers: 2010

The year's winding down, which means it's time to take stock of the companies, technologies and product categories that had big years, and those that did not.

Avoid the security risk of shortened URLs

The compact URLs produced by services such as TinyURL, bit.ly, is.gd, and many others are convenient and save space, but they can also be used to hide the identity of malicious sites. Fortunately, there are several ways to peek behind a shortened URL to see exactly where the link will take you — before you click it!

Google launches Microsoft Office connector: Keep your legacy Office, use our cloud

The plug-in, dubbed Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, gives the user a direct link to sync and share documents—Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint—with Google Docs. The documents aren’t reformatted in Google Docs, which is used as a go-between from your legacy Office suite to Google.

Best Free PC Games

Whether you've searched everywhere trying to find the best free game in existence, or just happened to stumble here looking for something to keep your kids occupied, you've come to the right place. This is the showcase for some of the most top-notch, high quality, freeware games out there in each respective category. They really are quite a bang for the lack of a buck.

HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. This extension was designed to help protect you against FireSheep incursions at public Wi_Fi locations.

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