IT Legends - Tech in Connecticut

I decided to post up some training videos for questions people ask me, or things that I answer on some support forums I’m a part of, to make my life and hopefully other people’s lives easier.  The first one I did was on how to change your default save type in Word 2007 so that the rest of the world can open your attachments.  The video loops after you click OK after choosing the default save type.  I recommend Word 97-2003 or Rich Text Format.

I’ve used a few mobile phone platforms over the years. My first was a hearty Motorola StarTac - remember those things? haha. Most recently I’ve used an HTC phone made for Verizon - the XV6800 with Windows Mobile 6. I was pretty excited, let myself buy into the hype. My Treo 650 (which for the most part I was enjoying) was broken with a shattered screen so I went out and bought the HTC. (more…)

Well, it’s always been my advice to change your router’s password.  Even at your home network.  You might be wondering why?  No one wants to take over your network, right?  Well, this article points out how a malicious variant of a popular and wide-spread virus has found a way to hijack your router.  What does this mean to you?  It means they can redirect all of your traffic if they chose to.  As in, say…  redirect paypal.com to thei own paypal lookalike and get your password.  Except you won’t be able to look in your browser’s address bar to see if you’re actually at paypal.com to detect it - because this hack makes your computer think it is actually at paypal.com.   In any event, do whatever you can to change your router’s default password.  I don’t know why the router manufacturers don’t force you to set a password after each time you set up - they thought they were safe I guess.

Technically, this would be Whole Drive Encryption Part 4: I just wanted to update you all that I’m still running well with whole drive encryption with no noticeable overhead on my system.  I’m playing with fire though, because I’m writing to you from Panera again.  You may recall that this was where I … um… tested the hardiness of my old ThinkPad!  (more…)

Sorry if any of you were trying to contact me via the contact form.  There was an issue with my WordPress being able to email me over at Google Apps.  I’ve worked it through with my excellent web host and all is well now.  So if you used my contact form in the past and I never responded - its because I never got the message.  Very sorry!