Normally I would not waste space on this site for software that does not pass muster. Nor would I devote any space to malicious software such as spyware, viruses or malware (although I will provide a list of helpful applications in the future). But, when I feel that software is evil enough to cause serious damage to computers, I feel it is necessary to alert every one to it…and since we are spidered by Google, this should help get the word out about a legitimate program that is malicious in many ways.

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I have used an IBM PC-based computing system since I first started using a computer back in the early 80s.  Since then, I’ve moved from DOS 3.0 up to Windows XP Professional, with many stops along the way.  At one point I’d considered getting an Apple Macintosh computer, but back then, the price was prohibitively expensive, as was the software.  In recent years, I’ve even had experience with another operating system, which ran on my current hardware.  I’m not really convinced any one system is better than the other, but I am convinced that some of the other computer users out there are truly whacked!

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I rarely find myself praising anything I find online, but there are a few standout websites that I visit regularly that are genuinely helpful to me on a regular basis.  These sites, for the most part, are free to use, and the advertising is not that intrusive.  For years, I used Altavista as my main search engine, but these days, Google is my number one choice in search engines.   When they began their public beta (testing) period for their mail service, Gmail, I signed up early on and giave it a fair try.  Since then, they have added numerous other free services for end users, and they are just now beginning to charge corporations for use of these services in an enterprise setting.  Google has come a long way, and I felt I should share some of my discoveries in case you may have overlooked them.

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I’d given up in frustration with Firefox 2.0 due to a couple of changes that made it too clumsy for me to use. Fortunately, I’ve found a few workarounds and configuration changes to where I have Firefox almost working the way I want it to.
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