Don’t take the risk
By David Spaxman A lot of times on computers I see anti-virus software where the subscription has run out. Does this mean they are wide open to attacks and viruses? No, not really. But it is important. Generally, it’s not a good thing to let your anti-virus protection subscription lapse – unless you plan on [...]
Haliburton County’s Hot Reads The following are the top five fiction and non-fiction titles as requested this week at the Haliburton County Public Library. HCPL’s TOP FIVE FICTION 1. Private Berlin by James Patterson 2. Beach Strip by John Lawrence Reynolds 3. [...]
By David Spaxman I get asked a lot about tracking cookies by people, especially when their anti-spyware program shows them numerous tracking cookies on their computer as a threat. Are the sites that they go to tracking people who access it? The word “tracking” makes people nervous; it makes them feel like someone is spying [...]
By Mark Arike You won’t have to walk Hollywood’s red carpet to catch two award-winning documentaries on April 13. That’s because the second annual Doc(k) Day festival is coming to Haliburton’s Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion. For a cost of $8 per film, movie goers can see “Chasing Ice”, a 2012 film that follows National [...]
By Matthew Desrosiers Art is more than paint on canvas. For Nikole Wingrove, a returning Haliburton Highlands Secondary School (HHSS) student, art became a way to deal with and understand a diagnosis that took her by surprise. Her piece, titled I’m Quite Nervous, was on display at the Rails End Gallery on April 6 for [...]
By David Spaxman Last week I wrote about HDD’s or Hard Disc Drives. This week I’ll review the new type of drive, Solid State Drives or SSDs. Solid state is a term that refers to electronic circuitry that is built entirely out of semiconductors. SSD’s primary storage medium is through semiconductors. Now, you might say [...]
By David Spaxman I was recently asked to explain the difference between random access memory (RAM) and hard disk space. I can tell you I failed miserably. I know what the difference is, in my mind, but I couldn’t spit it out verbally. So I sat down and thought about the question some more and [...]
The following are the top five fiction and non-fiction titles as requested this week at the Haliburton County Public Library. HCPL’s TOP FIVE FICTION 1. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult 2. Beach Strip by John Lawrence Reynolds 3. The Painted Girls by [...]
By Matthew Desrosiers Every summer, the Forest Festival brings some of Canada’s best talent to the Highlands for a series of exciting performances. This year’s lineup is no exception. “Stellar is the word I would use,” said Sean Pennylegion, Forest Festival general manager. “These are professional Canadian musicians at the top of their games.” Pennylegion [...]
By David Spaxman If you own a laptop or a desktop system with an LCD screen you know how hard it is to keep it clean. Let’s face it, after a while it looks like the sneeze guard at the salad bar. So how should you clean it without ruining it? You’ll need a cloth [...]
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