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Editor’s Note: At the end of this month, BlueBadger.com’s blog will be 4 years old. We’ve grown from a few readers a day to 450+ readers a day and growing each week since. Since it’s Halloween, why not give you some pointers for tonight just in case it really turns in to “Night of the Living Dead! Today’s post is from February 9, 2009. And since it’s about zombies this post just keeps running and running. A fan favorite for you to enjoy. . Since you never know if one could show up in your... Read Full Story

It was only a matter of time until it would come down to this: a group in San Francisco has begun an online dating service for Apple users set to launch in June of this year. The site’s name? Cupidtino . Yes, gag, is right. But you don’t have to be a Mac-e to join the site. You can own an iPod or some other Apple device. And who knows, maybe with your love of technology and aesthetics, you can parlay that into a real relationship and not have to stop being on your Mac all the time... Read Full Story

Sony announced today that they plan on halting production of the venerable 3.5″ floppy disk by early next year. It’s understandable, afterall. I mean, when was the last time you actually bought a box of 1.44MB disks? Can’t remember if it was even this century? The truth is once CD and DVD writers started showing up on PCs as standard drives, the floppy’s day was numbered. Flash technology didn’t help the matter either. Many PC makers haven’t even put the drive on new computers for several... Read Full Story

Various reports the last few weeks have told of increased cyber attacks on Internet users throughout the world. Today out of the UK we learn that a virus that had been brought down is now back, and spreading more problems for online bankers than before. If you haven’t run a virus scan on your machine recently, particularly if you’re running either Firefox or IE, today might be a good day. . . Zeus Banking Virus Is Back Warns Security Firm via tha BBC, April 21, 2010 “Zeus, a virus... Read Full Story

Everyone wants to complain about the Windows Operating System. It doesn’t do this; it has too many holes in it, it’s always crashing. And yet, Microsoft keeps refining the architecture, keeps finding ways to improve the average user’s PC experience. One of the nice features of Windows 7 is to detect many types of hardware, memory, and performance issues and resolve them automatically or help users through the process of resolving them. Windows Vista and XP haven’t had such capabilities. Until... Read Full Story

Saturday. Usually the day before Easter is spent shopping for new shoes or clothing for your bi-annual trip to Church (the other being at Christmas). This weekend Apple has given even you geeks a reason to head to your nearest store. And there’ll be nothing more exciting than seeing little Apple geniuses scurrying about, dying to answer your questions on their revolutionary tiny notebook. Earlier today, Apple announced they are changing the names of two of their existing products to give a... Read Full Story

Yesterday, Apple released an update to Snow Leopard (10.6.3) containing numerous updates and fixes to various components in that OSX version. Included in the update were security fixes to the system as well. Later in the day, recognizing that those same components are also still available in Leopard, they released a major security patch for it too. The second security patch by Apple for 2010, Security Update 2010-002, is included with the Mac OS X 10.6.3 update. Leopard users can download the... Read Full Story

A week from today, on April 3 (and coincidently, in time for last minute Easter shopping), the Apple iPad is set to hit the streets. And from all indications, Apple is wanting to make sure you have access to plenty of apps, games, and software that the new device will be compatible with. Aside from the ongoing Amazon e-book pricing feud, we found some software and games that you should be able to use the first day you get your iPad. . . eBooks Catch up on the Classics! 30,000... Read Full Story

From the halls of this can’t possibly be a good thing, security experts have come across a piece of malware that can now write over an auto-updater program on your PC. Affecting Windows-based PC’s, the code has been found overwriting AdobeUpdater.exe. The implications could be far-ranging for users who may inadvertently download the code via email and not know that their files have been over-written. By corrupting the auto-responder file of any software that has security issues, hackers may... Read Full Story

Late yesterday Mozilla released a critical update to its latest browser Firefox 3.6. The fix helped to patch a flaw that would have allowed web thugs (which is what folks who mess with your computer really are) to use a font decompression routine that could be exploited to “crash a victim’s browser and execute arbitrary code on his/her system,” Mozilla said in yesterday’s security advisory. . . The update, released late yesterday was to be included in next week’s regularly scheduled... Read Full Story