September 2009 • PC Matic Blog

PC Pitstop Newsletter – September 2009 #2

PC Matic Cybersecurity / September 30, 2009

Ask Leo: Help! My email was hijacked!

Chris Pirillo Video: How to Improve Internet Explorer

Bits from Bill: Most Underrated Windows Tweak

The Race for Your Email

Technologizer: MSFT Tablet PCs

TechBite: Making the PC to TV Connection

The Dodge Retort: Socialnomics ’09 – The Movie

Tip #1: Learn Windows 7

Tip #2: 5 Best Online Image Editors

Tip #3: Down for everyone or just me

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Introducing PC Matic

PC Matic Cybersecurity / September 29, 2009

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What is PC Matic?

PC Matic is a collection of PC Pitstop’s award winning technologies (OverDrive, Optimize, Driver Alert, Disk MD & Exterminate) – all under one hood and one integrated architecture.

With PC Matic, computer users can now have security, speed, stability and performance all in one product. (learn more).

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Ask Leo – Someone is sending from my email address! How do I stop them?!

Leo Notenboom / September 29, 2009

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PC Pitstop is proud to welcome industry veteran Leo Notenboom as a new guest contributor. Leo has been involved in the tech industry for nearly 30 years. After retiring from an 18 year career as a Microsoft Software Engineer Leo went on to create Ask Leo!, a free web site where he answers real questions from ordinary computer users.

By Leo Notenboom

You’re minding your own business and one day you get email
from someone you’ve never heard of and they’re asking you to
stop sending them email. Or worse, they’re angry. Or worse
yet, they accuse you of sending them a virus! But you don’t
know them, you’ve never heard of them, and you know you’ve
never sent them email.

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Chris Pirillo Video: How to Improve Internet Explorer

Chris Pirillo / September 29, 2009

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Back in the day, I used to love Internet Explorer. It was awesome… up until version 4 and above. A lot of people out there still use IE, and will continue to do so. You can install a new plugin that Google has released – and have your install of Internet Explorer kick serious browser butt once again.

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Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Most Underrated Free Tweak to Improve Windows Performance

Bill Pytlovany / September 28, 2009

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By Bill Pytlovany

Don’t overlook this simple & free tweak that can drastically improvement the speed of your computers.

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Technologizer: Microsoft Does Tablets. Yes, Again

Harry McCracken / September 28, 2009

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By Harry McCracken

Gizmodo is reporting on what it says is Microsoft’s prototype for a new sort of tablet computer – one with dual screens bound up like a book, and an interface that involves both multi-touch (like an iPhone) and a stylus (like a Tablet PC). It’s supposedly code-named Courier, and Gizmodo has a video walkthrough–which is done in animation, so this could be a concept rather than a product that’ll ever be available for sale.

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TechBite: Stream Movies from Your PC to Your TV

Steve Bass / September 28, 2009

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By Steve Bass

Watch movies on my PC? No way." I was talking to one of my cousins, not one of the brightest bulbs in the family. It took me a few minutes to explain how he could send downloaded movies — as well as other Internet content, such as TV shows — to the TV in his living room.

For the last few months, I’ve tried two devices that sit near your TV and grab video content from your PC. Even in this dreadful economy, neither one I tried is terribly expensive — and there are no monthly charges.

This week I’ll cover the hardware; next week I’ll tell you where to find movies and TV shows on the Internet. I’ll also tell you about a MediaGate portable media player.

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THE RACE FOR YOUR MAIL

S.Hogan / September 28, 2009

By Steve Hogan

The echoing sound of “You’ve Got Mail” faded this summer as Google’s Gmail powered past AOL and captured the third place position among email servers.

With a growth rate of 46% over the past year some are saying Gmail will overtake Windows Live Mail/HotMail at the number 2 position by early in 2010. Possibly even as early as Feb. 2010.

CURRENT POSITION

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PC Pitstop Newsletter – September 2009

PC Matic Cybersecurity / September 15, 2009

PC Specs Don’t Matter

OverDrive: “Outstanding Tool”

Ask the Pros: Kill Fake AntiVirus

2 Steps to Dual Boot Windows

64 Bit Systems on the Rise

Chris Pirillo Video: Do You Need More Memory?

Bits from Bill: 4 Reasons Win 7 is 10x Better

Technologizer: World’s Weirdest Laptops

TechBite: 6 Surprising Uses for Google

The Dodge Retort: The Politics of FIOS

Tip #1: Screenrecorder

Tip #2: Virtual PC

Tip #3: Refresh Firefox Tabs Fast

Tip #4: Monitor Off Utility

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64-Bit Systems on The Rise

Admin / September 15, 2009

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In a Microwave world where everyone is looking for immediate satisfaction the computer system is not exempt. Faster processors, larger RAM, and faster broadband connections are a few examples of optimizing a computers potential. Years ago it was basically just Servers reaping the benefit of 64-bit processing, but today 64-bit processors have almost become common amongst desktop PCs.

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