Preaching to the choir...

It's 2011, do you know what's on your Windows PC?  By that, I mean, are you fairly sure you don't have viruses, trojans, keyloggers, and other assorted malware nasties churning in your rig?

Well, if you still aren't running at least some antivirus, or if what you have is more than a year old, here's a story from PC Mag all about 2011's best antivirus software.  It seems to be fairly comprehensive and gives you options for the best scanners and removers, both paid and free.  If you have a few minutes, be sure to check it out.  It could save you a number of hours later.

Personally, I have antivirus running and do a general malware scan with a different product on my Windows 7 PC.  And my Mac?  Still going along without.  Yeah, yeah, I should take my own advice.  One of these days I will, but I still haven't seen any alarms being raised, so yeah, one of these days.  However, that doesn't mean I don't regularly run Clam on it just to check...

How about you?  What do you do to keep your PCs (including Macs) safe?

Easily shrink pictures for uploading or sending

I guess that's why they call the app "Shrink Pic."


Basically, anytime you want to send a picture via email, upload one to a blog or share one via IM,Shrink Pic "automatically creates a temporary copy, resizes it and sends it instead."


For instance, the below picture's size on my hard drive is 450K.  When I insert the picture into the post (which uploads it into my WordPress storage), Shrink Pic resizes it to 52K, saving me a lot of space for more pictures!  I've only had Shrink Pic for a little while, but it seems to work great!



Shrink Pic doesn't modify the original, nor does it seem to change it when moving pictures from folder to folder, even if it's something like my online DropBox account.


for Windows, via LifeHacker

Now attached to Windows full-time by a CoRD

Although I've used the Windows RDP app in the past, I've now switched to using CoRD full-time to login remotely to my Windows desktop at work.


CoRD does a great job of scaling my 1680x1050 Windows desktop monitor down to my MBP's 1440x900 resolution.  Granted, it's a little small, but it's still pretty readable, so all is well.