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The great Target hack of 2013: should you care?

It started this week while I was working on one of my customer’s computers, when she asked, “What do you think about those millions of credit cards being hacked at Target?” Not having watched the previous evening’s news broadcasts, I had missed...

Holiday season fraud alert!

I received an unusual email today, one I was glad to see. The email’s subject line said, “Holiday fraud alert.” Usually, when I see “alert” messages in my Inbox, they turn out to be based on a hoax. These messages often start when...

If your computer dies, will all your files vanish forever?

I hate being the computer guy who has to tell someone that all their computer files, including the Excel spreadsheets of their family finances and the pictures of Grandma at Thanksgiving are gone. Poof, forever, vanished into thin air, all of them, and they are never...

Computer Science Education Week and The Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is coming. It cannot be stopped. Resistance is futile. You may even decide to happily become assimilated. On Saturday, December 14, at 10 a.m., the Norman Public Library Computer Training Center is hosting a session of the Hour of Code, part of a...

Microsoft Office 2003 also to be terminated next spring

You may recall last week’s column discussing the impending demise of Microsoft Windows XP and what that means to computer owners. Unfortunately, there is more to the story, including Microsoft also ending all “mainstream” support for its...