About George Garza

I am a technical instructor for New Horizons in Fort Worth Texas. I am interested in anything in Science, and Computer Science. I am an MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, and I have an Msc in Computer Information Systems. I also write for Windows7News, Windows8News, and Brighthub. I published a book called the "Tiger Guide to Laptops."
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Potential Malware Threats Hit Chrome

Most of you are not surprised to hear that malware attacks can hit any browser, Internet Explorer is not necessarily weaker than other browsers in the security camp, they just [...]

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Top Personal Information Managers to Look At

A personal information manager ( PIM) is a type of application software that functions as a personal organizer. As an information management tool, a PIM tool’s purpose is to facilitate the recording, tracking, and management of [...]

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Apple’s New Algorithm for Apps

About a month ago, Google changed its ranking algorithm which is used to identify which sites get to the top of the viewing area. For some companies, like Demand Studios, [...]

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Three Unique Programming Tools to Look At

Here are a group of programming tools that you may want to put in your development library. Start with a SQL development analysis program. MSSQL.SchemaDiff Developing databases is an intriquite [...]

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Intel Sandy Bridge Processor Set For Release May 22

Sandy Bridge, is the codename for a microprocessor architecture developed by Intel as the successor to Nehalem. It is based on the 32 nm process, development began in 2005 at [...]

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Top Freeware Network Analysis Tools

Here are some Free Network Analysis Tools that you should look at for help in understanding your network operations. WirelessNetView Start with Wireless. If you want to see the wireless [...]

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Facebook: Who is the Real Owner?

Two stories have made the round about Facebook this week. One involving the twins, Winklevosses, who were appealing an earlier legal ruling stating that the twins will have to accept their original [...]

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Top Free Backup Software To Look At

FBackup FBackup is an easy to use backup program. Among its features it does mirror backups and has wizards for backup & restore. It also has file filters and it [...]

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Outsourced E-Mail Provider Epsilon – Hacked

Recent events in the area of Internet security have shown that big players can make a difference and shut down hackers or hacking sites. But on the other hand, hackers [...]

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LizaMoon – Hack Attack

Friday Afternoon – A report from Websense came out that an attack may have affected some 500,000 Web sites, and perhaps as many as 1.5 million. The attack occurred in such [...]

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The Rustock Takedown Spam Down 33%

The Rustock Botnet was taken down earlier this month. It had accounted for billions of spam e-mails daily.  According to Symantec’s March 2011 MessageLabs Intelligence Report this is a big accomplishment [...]

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Cisco is Making a Move to the Cloud

Last week, I wrote about a study predicting the 39% of Small to Medium Size Business would be moving to the cloud in the next three years. (Survey shows that [...]

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