Our favorite free anti-virus program, Avast, is out in a new version for 2013, and they’ve added more features.
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If you use Facebook, but worry about it sharing your personal details with strangers, we have a fix. It’s “Privacy Fix,” a free app from PrivacyFix.com.
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Microsoft Office just came out in a new version for 2013. But some of us (Joy’s looking at you, Bob) haven’t upgraded Microsoft Word since 2003. This can be a problem when Joy sends Bob a file created in a newer version.
If Joy forgets to save a Word document in the “Doc” f
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Download.com is the most popular site for downloading free programs, mostly what
are called utilities. The anti-virus program “Avast,” which we used for several years, is
available from download.com, as is AVG anti-virus (which we also used for years and
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Our friend Nancy just had a tour of McAfee Anti-Virus hell. She thought she had a virus but she didn’t. Yet the company told her it would cost $180 for the “Concierge Gold” service to fix her computer over the Internet.
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Crowdhoster.com lets you start your own crowd funding site. This is a hot, hot area right now. No programming required.
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MapsOfWar.com shows you 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds in an animated map that changes as you move along a timeline. We looked at “Who Conquered theMiddle East?” (tip: Alexander the Great passed this way), and “The March of Democracy.”
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SmartMoney.com has a calculator for figuring out interest costs, mortgage rates, savings required for retirement, likely future unemployment rates and a whole bunch of stuff. Type “calculator” in the search bar to get to the options. The site does not seem well organized but you’ll get to what you want eventually.
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