Once this app is installed, you have a number of theft recovery features available remotely should your phone be lost or stolen. You can track it by GPS or cell tower location, can cause it to emit a high-pitched alarm, can disable it, or wipe it. There are also remote backup options available for a monthly fee.

• Use your browser to navigate to free.avg.com
• Download and save the AVG installation file to your desktop
• Navigate to www.avg.com/download-tools and save the avg-remover tool to your desktop
• Close your browser, go to the control panel, launch Add/Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista, Win 7), and uninstall AVG
• Reboot and run the AVG remover you saved to your desktop
• Reboot and run the AVG installation file you saved to your desktop

Well, lets of folks don’t always read the fine print when they install new software or allow a software update to take place. Lots of times, this is a source of unwanted add-ons such as toolbars.

As a test, I started with a freshly formatted Windows XP system. It was perfectly tuned, booted in seconds, and Internet Explorer rapidly snapped open to show the Google home page when you clicked on the trusty Internet Explorer icon, taking less than one second to launch. Overall, the system was very responsive, and made full use of the fast processor and fast internet connection that was available.

Then, I installed a standard complement of necessary software components such as Java, Adobe Reader, Flash Player, etc. Normally I read the fine print on these install screens and clear any box with optional software such as a toolbar. This time, I left the default boxes checked each and every time I installed these software components. In this shot you can see a Java update selecting the Bing toolbar by default.

After I had installed these components, I noticed the system was sluggish. Boot time was horrible, and it took more than three minutes to launch Internet Explorer. This same system was blndingly fast only a few minutes ago! To top it all off, once the browser was loaded, the screen was so full of toolbars that very little room was left for the web page itself. Look at this screenshot! It’s a joke.

The moral of the story - when you install software or an update, pay attention to the opt-in or opt-out software that is tagging along. If later on you decide you really need that toolbar, you can always download it separately.

First, log into Facebook and click on Profile. Then, click on the Info tab under your name, and then the Edit button next to Basic Information. Select “Show only month and day in my profile”, and scroll down and click the blue “Save changes” button. Here is a screenshot:

With these settings, only the month and day of your birth will be displayed in your profile. The year will not be displayed.

This is indeed a legitimate software update from Sun Microsystems, the vendor that provides Java. Java is a programming language and runtime environment used by a number of websites to display interactive web content. In order to secure your computer from online threats, you should keep all of your online software up-to-date. This includes Java. So, the next time this pop-up happens, you should click on the pop-up window and allow the update to proceed. It should only take a few minutes.

Is your home in a flood hazard area? FEMA has online resources which outline the extent of the officially calculated hazard areas. One such resource is FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer for Google Earth.

To get started, download and install Google Earth if you do not have it already. Then download the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer and save it. Opening this file will launch Google Earth with the FEMA layer loaded.

Here is a screenshot showing the overlay after choosing “Special Flood Hazard Areas” and “Floodways”.

The red areas indicate flood hazard zones, where flood insurance may be mandatory.

The downloads for various flavors of Windows can be obtained directly from Microsoft. Upgrading your Installer will ensure that you have the latest Microsoft fixes for the Installer component, and may possibly fix registry permission issues that are hampering some of your current attempts at installing third-party software packages.

Don’t blow your budget on expensive software - take advantage of this great offer from Microsoft!

In this situation Outlook 2003 is storing images in emails in a temporary security folder. If you have an image called, say, image.jpg, Outlook will store this image temporarily in a folder. When Outlook saves this image, a filename such as image01.jpg, image02.jpg, image03.jpg, is used. The bug happens after 99 repetitions, when Outlook goes past image99.jpg. It cannot save the file, so it displays a red X. This little autoit script will clear the folder so that Outlook can start displaying the inline images in your signature properly. I have had good success in placing this program in the startup folder so it runs each time the user logs on to their computer. This program should not be run while Outlook is running.

The source code can be found here. Compile it and enjoy!

1. First, browsing around with the trackball, locate the Address Book icon. In this example it is one of the last icons. After you find it, the icon should appear highlighted.

2. Now, click on the menu button. On this Blackberry, it is the little “paw prints” button to the left of the trackball. This will bring up a context menu. With the trackball, scroll up or down to select the Move option and clik the trackball.

3. The context menu goes away and now we see that the Address Book icon is surrounded by a little box indicating it is under our control.

4. Use the trackball to slide the Address Book icon around until it is in the desired location. If you mess up, just hit the menu button and select Move again.

5. After you have the icon where you want it, click on the trackball and it will stop moving. In my case, I like putting the Address Book as the third icon on the top row.