I know we create quality content here on PCMech, but I would hope that, aside from being useful to the readers, it may inspire others to do the same. What I would NOT hope to inspire somebody to do is take the lazy-ass approach and swipe content from PCMech and post it on their own [...]
Using Gmail to Filter Spam On Existing Mail Accounts
November 14, 2007 by 10 Comments
Spam sucks. We all know that. The question is how to stop it. Those of us who use Google’s Gmail have very little spam problem. Google’s spam filtering is VERY good. When I was using Outlook as my mail client, I was using the paid Cloudmark plug-in to defeat spam. It beats the hell out [...]
Blogging From the Front Lines in Iraq
November 13, 2007 by 1 Comment
Who better to get the real story from than people on the ground. Actual soldiers and people who live there. People who are in Iraq and are blogging about their experiences. As a blogger myself, this type of phenomenon is very touching.
Managing Your Passwords Securely
November 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
With so much of our computing activity moving to the internet these days, it is quite common for people to have WAY more online profiles than can easily be kept track of. We have accounts at our banks, social networks, various online forums, email accounts, and probably even some other sites you registered for and [...]
Information Warfare
November 5, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Information and technology are fundamentally connected, as technology is used to more efficiently store, modify, process, sort, and analyze information. Information systems, when combined, often store personal information, control mission-critical processes, and are vital to the everyday lives of Americans as well as the global economy. To maintain such networks, people must create and manage [...]
Setting up IMAP enabled Gmail in Opera 9.24
October 30, 2007 by 9 Comments
Since the introduction of IMAP access in Gmail I’ve been toying around with several e-mail clients. The clients I tested out were Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook Express and Opera. These are all free mail clients that support IMAP. Opera does actually have some really decent IMAP support and it works well. Google provides good instructions [...]
Firefox Wonder Edition – A Lighter Firefox?
October 22, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Last week, Rich made a post about Netscape 9. Netscape 9 is based on the Firefox core, but has a lighter footprint. This evening I ran across something else I thought I would bring up: Firefox Wonder Edition. Firefox Wonder Edition is a stripped down version of Firefox. It is also fully portable which means [...]
Joost – Internet TV For Free
October 19, 2007 by 2 Comments
Joost is a free, internet-based television client which is available on both Windows and MacOS. After Rich pointed me toward it, I gave it a try on the computer which has the flat screen LCD television connected to it. All I can say is that Joost and a big monitor make for a killer combination! [...]
PCMech Visitor Statistics – What Are You Using?
October 18, 2007 by 8 Comments
Every now and then I think it is fun to delve into the stats of the readers of this website to find out what you guys are using on your computers. Things like screen resolutions, operating systems, web browsers. So, what are you guys using these days? What do the trends show? Web Browser While [...]
Is Blocking Ads Ethical? An End User Perspective
October 17, 2007 by 5 Comments
In an increasingly user-friendly digital world, the concept of circumventing inconveniences has become a commonplace. Microsoft Word’s Paper Clip bothering you? Turn it off. Hate Windows Firewall? Turn it off (and install something else). But there is something more important and a slightly controversial practice going on. Specifically, to those many who browse the internet [...]
Netscape 9 – A Better, Faster Firefox?
October 16, 2007 by 18 Comments
For kicks I tried out the new Netscape 9 web browser. Remember Netscape? Yeah, that one. Netscape uses the Firefox 2.0.0.7 engine, so if you’ve been using Firefox, Netscape is almost identical to the Firefox interface. Except for one thing: Netscape uses far less system resource. I don’t know how Netscape did it, but this [...]
Interview: Chris Pirillo, from Lockergnome
October 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
I was going to hold off publishing this one until next week, but I thought I would let it hang for the weekend and let you enjoy. In our second interview series, I have interviewed Chris Pirillo from Lockergnome. Lockergnome has been around a long time (longer than PCMech, I believe). Chris also was active [...]
Interview: Eyejot.com CEO, David Geller
October 11, 2007 by 1 Comment
Here on PC Mechanic, we are going to be starting a routine interview series where we get direct input from leaders and shakers in the tech community. Today I am starting this out by posting an interview of David Geller, of Eyejot.com. Eyejot is a video email service which is web-based. And it is quite [...]
Do Gmail Spam Filters Really Work?
October 6, 2007 by 6 Comments
Above is a for-real screen shot of my Google Apps based e-mail (i.e. Gmail) “Spam” folder. Anyone who is a domain owner knows that spammers will send e-mail to any common address at your domain, such as webmaster@example.com, contact@example.com, sales@example.com and so on. I’ve had my primary domain registered since 1999 but spam wasn’t really [...]
Keeping Email Synced On Multiple Computers
October 5, 2007 by 22 Comments
A common issue that people have today is keeping their email in sync among more than one computer. For example, you may have a computer at your office and another at home. Ideally, you would want all email that is on one of the computers to also be on the other. Or perhaps you have [...]
