Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

If you don’t subscribe to SmashingMagazine.com, then you should! The site is a jackpot of helpful tools, tips, and more all for the average blogger and advanced IT expert. I was scouring their archives and found a great tutorial 10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks. I have used many of them, but not all. Just remember [...]

Believe it or not, I use search engines ALL DAY. It’s my job. I write Internet content, so I search information and write articles. I suspect I may soon become something of a walking encyclopedia someday. I have written SO many articles, everything! Stuff related to what bed bugs look like, how to reformat your [...]

Many programs on your computer make connections to your network or to the Internet. There are some programs you want to connect to the Internet: your instant messenger, your email, your browser, and so on. But there are also some other connections you do not want leaching out, such as bandwidth-hogging software and spyware. Here’s [...]

Did you realize that you can control what Internet sites (including advertisements) are displayed on your computer? Within Windows, there’s a file called “Hosts” that essentially controls what websites your computer can connect to. You can modify the Hosts file to block websites on your computer. It’s a great way to block ads, malicious sites, [...]

I have a very nice Netgear Wireless-B+G+N gateway router for our DSL connection. And I have a very nice Belkin Wireless-N adapter for one of our computers here. Since both gadgets are relatively new technology, I figured that connecting the Belkin to the Netgear would be a piece of cake. WRONG. I admit– this Belkin [...]

Windows by default has AutoPlay configured. AutoPlay (once called AutoRun in older Windows operating systems) is that little program that starts up the software whenever you connect a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or pop in a CD or DVD. It was handy back in the old days of innocent computer use… but [...]