Microsoft kills Google Chrome....literally

Ooops, If you have Microsoft Security Essentials Anti-virus installed, yesterday it probably alerted you to a security threat that needed to be cleaned.  Simple enough, click OK, and everything is fine again.  Well, not so fast, re-boot and no more Google Chrome.  Microsoft acknowledged that somehow Google Chrome was labeled as malware and was removed.  Of course this is not the case and Microsoft has already corrected the problem.  How ironic though.  Microsoft accidentally erasses the competition.  For more information, click here.

You can rate everything else online, why not your ex?

A new website has popped up, www.exrated.co (NO m, I am not responsible for the site you will go to if you put the m on the end of that web address!)  Exrated is a site that lets you rate your ex-boyfriend or husband.  It's your civic duty to warn the next person.  However, this site is meant to rate the good and bad about the ex.  There are plenty of other sites that will allow you to trash or break up with your ex completely (email me for those sites).  It is new, so don't expect to find your ex there yet!

A legitimate, free computer security scan

Normally I advise against downloading or running "free security" scanners you may find on the Internet.  So many are bogus or are trying to sell you software.  Very few, if any, actually give a true, honest scan of your system.  Well, I found one for you.  From Sophos.com, they have available a free security scan.  Download and run it and it will check your system for items your Antivirus may have missed and check for other important security issues that may be on your system.  Yes, it is free, no obligation to buy anything.  Yes, it's free (forgive the repitition, lol)

New Page - Security Threat Glossary

Thanks to my friends at Sophos.com, I added a page of Glossary Terms for security threats.  Now you can look up the definition of everything harmful to your system.  At a minimum, you won't have a deer in the headlights look on your face when I talk to you, lol.

Amazon takes on Netflix...and probably will win

With the announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon threw something else in that may be bad news for Netflix, Amazon Prime.  

Amazon is offering to bundle the Kindle Fire with a free one-month subscription to Amazon Prime. In addition to free two-day shipping on any purchase from the store, Amazon Prime customers receive "instant commercial-free streaming of over 11,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost." After the free month is over, Fire owners can sign up for Prime which costs $79 annually.

Let's spell that out: Amazon streaming movies cost $79. Netflix's streaming movies cost $96. And Netflix can't offer the free shipping on a seemingly infinite amount of consumer goods.  For the over one million customers who just left Netflix, they might now have a place to go.  I would have a very difficult time staying with Netflix if I were a member.  Amazon is cheaper, almost the same content and free two day shipping on everything else you buy there.

Amazon takes on Apple, Kindle Fire Tablet announced

It looks like we may have an alternative to the iPad after all.  Many have tried, all have failed to this point to provide a true alternative to the iPad.  Amazon is next up and they may have a winner.  Of course, we will see when it is actually for sale.  They may have a winner for one simple reason, price, $199.  There is a downsize to the cheaper price, no camera, GPS, bluetooth and a smaller screen.  However, most people aren't taking pictures with a tablet camera, your smartphone has GPS, very little bluetooth users exist outside of cell phone headsets and the smaller screen isnt that much smaller.  For $199, it does enough to make you seriously consider buying it.  All the other have failed for one simple reason, they cost as much as the iPad, but weren't as good.  If you are faced with two choices, the same price, you buy the better one.  If you have two choices and one is considerable cheaper than the second and does enough of what you want, you may buy that.  I always thought if anyone could take on Apple it would be Amazon, seems like they are stepping up to the challenge.