Year: 2011

  • How to protect your blog from viruses, backdoor Trojans and other nasty stuff

    If you’ve ever been hit with a virus on your computer, you know how difficult it can be to thoroughly clean the machine, even when you have security software that does all the heavy work. Take that picture and apply…

  • Windows boot-up made faster with Soluto

    Watching BBC Click on TV yesterday, I was interested to find out more about soluto.com that was mentioned on the show. This is a program for Windows that claims to dramatically speed up the boot time of your computer so…

  • You can try and stop it but the Jinn is out

    With the TV news full of images and sounds of serious civil unrest in Egypt, it’s fascinating to see how social media tools and channels – especially Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook – have been enabling Egyptian…

  • Eric Schwartzman, Paul Gillin to discuss social media and B2B Feb 19 on FIR Live

    FIR Live #21 Saturday, February 19, 2011 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT Participate or listen in Tech journalist and author Paul Gillin and Eric Schwartzman – PR counsellor, podcaster and occasional FIR correspondent – have teamed up…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #583: January 24, 2011

    Content summary: New FIR Book Review posted of Resonate by Nancy Duarte; diary date: next FIR Live is on Feb 19 with Eric Schwartzman and Paul Gillin on B2B social media; listeners’ comments discussion; News That Fits: bad guys shifting…