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CCleaner got a must-have update; a reader wants to know if two security apps are better than one; Windows 7's Recent Places feature can save you time. By  Rick Broida ,  PCWorld     Nov 3, 2010 7:00 am Want to clean and optimize your PC? You've probably heard of CCleaner, arguably the world's most popular tool for doing the job. Developer Piriform just released  CCleaner 3.0 . The big news in this update? A native 64-bit version for use with like editions of Windows. Like the last release, CCleaner clears out temporary files, cleans the Windows Registry, erases browser histories, and so on. Version 3.0 also sports new icons, various interface improvements, better support for Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, and newly added support for programs like AVG AntiVirus 10.0, Audacity, LogMeIn Hamachi, BitTorrent, and Windows Game Explorer. I particularly like the way it intelligently scans for cookies you'd want to keep, like those for Google and Yaho...

Whether you're a grizzled tech veteran or an uninitiated newbie, here are 15 essential facts and tricks that you ought to know. By  Patrick Miller ,  PCWorld     Aug 17, 2010 10:00 am Think you know tech? If you don't have a handle on every single one of these 15 tech facts, habits, and efficiency tricks, you're not living up to your potential. 1. Don't double-click everything.  Windows 101: Double-clicking is how you open items in Windows. It's not how you open links in your Web browser, click buttons in dialog boxes, or do pretty much anything else--and if you reflexively double-click, you might accidentally zip right past something important or submit a form twice. If you don't need this reminder yourself, chances are you know someone who does. 2. Use slashes and backslashes in the appropriate situations.  Let's get it straight: / is a slash (or forward slash, if you must), and \ is a backslash. Backslashes are conventionally used for Windows ...

Users of Google's upcoming social network Google+ may soon get a middle ground of sorts between seeing less of what a person is doing and blocking them outright by clicking on the "Ignore" option. Google's Olga Wichrowska said the "Ignore" option can spare a Google+ member from seeing what an "ignored" person is sharing. "Ignoring someone is basically saying you’re just not interested – maybe you don’t know them, or maybe you don’t want to see what they’re sharing," she  said  in a Google+ post. She said that when a Google+ member ignores someone, they won't: see any of ignored person's posts in the Incoming stream get notifications about their activities see them on your Circles page People who had been ignored in Google+ will not be notified, Wichrowska said. She said the Ignore option can be accessed from Notifications in the Google+ bar, or the Notifications stream; or from Incoming. It can also be accessed ...

  One week after tech and social media-related terms retweet, sexting, cyberbullying, and woot made it to the Oxford English Dictionary’s 100th edition, another batch of such terms have been included in this year’s update of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Merriam-Webster said the inclusion of words like social media, tweet and crowdsourcing is “yet another sign of our era's communications revolution." "From the dramatic events of the Arab Spring to the scandal that brought down Congressman Anthony Weiner, tweet is a word that has been part of the story. We've been tracking words like social media and tweet for years, of course, and now we feel their meanings have stabilized enough to include them in the dictionary,"  said Peter Sokolowski,  Merriam-Webster's Editor at Large. According to Merriam-Webster's social media and tweet are just two of over 150 new words and definitions that have been added to this year’s edition of its dictionar...

Microsoft enhances file manager in Windows 8 08/25/2011 | 06:15 PM  Windows Explorer, the venerable default file manager in the upcoming latest version of Microsoft’s Windows flagship operating system, will be getting enhancements starting with its copy dialog, PC World reported. PC World said  the new feature appears to promise benefits for multitaskers who copy, move, rename and delete a large amount of files in Windows. “Microsoft’s copying overhaul doesn’t really improve much for people who typically move around one file or folder at a time or are used to handling small text files. But if you find yourself moving around large amounts of data such as photos and videos, then Windows 8 aims to make your copying experience easier," it said. It quoted Microsoft as saying copying, moving, renaming and deleting files are the most often-used functions in Windows Explorer – accounting for half of Explorer usage in Windows 7. The PC World article said Microsoft’s copy dial...

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to configure your Gmail account on Outlook Express so that you access it using POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3); Or in layman's terms, how you can receive your Gmail emails and store them on your system. Credits to the original page source The POP access was allowed on Gmail accounts almost from the start of the service... and the best thing... it's free! Step 1 - Enable the POP option at your Gmail account Log in at your Gmail account. Click on the  Settings  link on the top-right of the page. Now click on the  Forwarding and POP  tab. In the  POP Download  section, you can enable POP for all email messages or only for mail that you will receive henceforth. From a drop down menu, you can select what you want to do with the message once it is downloaded to Outlook Express on your system. I suggest that you let it lie on your Gmail account or archive it since there is so much of space available on Gmail....

Email Configuration in Microsoft Outlook (2007 + 2010) by  OH! Media  on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 1:53am Original post can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150387541235635 Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010 Go to Tools –> Account Settings. (In Outlook 2010 this can be found by going to File –> Account Settings.) Dialog box pops up and opens to “Email” tab by default. At the top left of the dialog box hit “New…”. Check off “Manually configure server settings or additional server types” and hit “Next”. Select the “Internet Email” option. Input requested info (Name, Email). If you will be configuring your email account on a smart phone as well as Outlook choose the “IMAP” option under Server Information –> Account Type. If you will only be using your email through Outlook choose “POP3″ under the Server Information –> Account Type setting. Incoming mail server/Outgoing Mail Server should be set to “mail.ohmedia.ca”. Logon Informatio...