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E-mail: plain text is best – follow-up
Posted on 16 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns
After my recent article on formatted e-mail a reader commented: This is outdated nonsense. Use HTML for all emails (and UTF-8, for that matter). If you can’t see it correctly, upgrade your mail client. Stop living in the 90s, and stop...read more
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E-mail: plain text is best
Posted on 14 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns
I can sum up my advice on this topic in one phrase: compose and send e-mail in plain text. When e-mail began 45 years ago, all messages were in plain text. For the technically inclined among you, it was 7-bit ASCII text. In more modern time...read more
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BCC for long distribution lists
Posted on 06 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns
Do you ever send a message to multiple recipients? Sure you do. Whether it’s a forwarded joke, the URL to the latest YouTube sensation, or some personal news to friends and family, we all do it. It’s one of the efficient benefit...read more
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April Fools’ Day part 2
Posted on 02 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns
Yes, today is tne annual recurrence of that one morning when it’s somewhat sanctioned to play tricks on your friends, family and co-workers. Sorry if you couldn’t read the earlier April Fools’ post. It was in binary, that ...read more
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Posted on 01 Apr 2011 by Alan Burns
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From Horseback To Bullet Train: The History Of Internet Usage And Speeds
Posted on 28 Mar 2011 by mostash
This is the first episode in a vast infograhic series WebHostingBuzz plans to release every other week, aimed to inform & entertain developers, designers, geeks and infographic addicts alike. In this piece we’re taking a look at t...read more
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“Password” is not a good password
Posted on 05 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns
Many studies have found that one of the most common passwords is “password”. This is likely because it is the default in many systems. A very bad default, in my opinion. We’re overwhelmed by passwords, so it’s not su...read more
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Scam caller asks: “Is your computer running slowly?”
Posted on 01 Mar 2011 by Alan Burns
Today I received a phone call offering to fix my PC. Instead of thinking “wow, how kind of someone to offer to help me”, my suspicious mind naturally contemplated other motives. It turns out that this is indeed a telemarketing s...read more
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Flash drives are difficult to erase safely
Posted on 23 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns
Think you’ve deleted those confidential documents from your USB flash drive? Think again. New research has discovered that Solid State Drives (SSDs), both large internal SSDs replacing hard drives and ubiquitous portable USB flash dri...read more
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F1: the neglected key
Posted on 17 Feb 2011 by Alan Burns
The F1 key must be one of the loneliest keys on a Windows keyboard. Not only is it rarely used, but most people seem unaware of its function. Press it now – go ahead, try it. In most Windows software, F1 launches the help function. Th...read more
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