Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. End of the year. Time to relax a little. Here are some fun definitions of common computer terms. Log On: Making a wood stove hot. Log Off: Too much…
Fraud in life is common. The world wide web is no exception. Fraud is a willful and deliberate attempt to deceive somebody into transferring property or gaining advantage that otherwise would not be possible with full disclosure and basic honesty. The web adds a layer of complexity where shysters take advantage of the fact that…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. While the Internet of Things (IoT) seems to deliver the smart home of the future as envisioned years ago in The Jetsons, there is much to consider before embracing…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. Ten years ago world wide web users might use about 2 to 3 GB of data per month. Today that number has risen to about 50 GB per month.…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. The innocent days of the world wide web are gone. Originally people shared information for the pure joy and excitement of sharing. Today much of the web is fueled…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. For security reasons a lot done with a computer or on the web needs to be protected in one form or another. Passwords are a standard user method of…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. Do you spend time on the web reading news, sports, blogs, comics, recipes, announcements, and other informational or entertainment sources? Do you visit each web site when reading that…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. There is an old proverb that the quality of an answer is related to the quality of the question. Viewed another way, when the wrong question is asked then…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. Estimates vary but approximately 15 to 20% of users connected to the web still use Windows XP. Yet XP no longer is supported, having reached End of Life (EOL)…
Welcome to the Fast-Air Tech Talk newsletter. The Tech Talk newsletter is a free service for all Fast-Air customers. Please feel encouraged to suggest newsletter topics. Windows 10 Preview Build 10162 is installed on the Fast-Air Linux demo computer. Please visit and browse the system. Nominal testing of Windows 10 on the demo system indicates…