Millions of children and teens are on the Internet everyday. They surf web pages, get their email and chat with their friends. Most parents believe this is harmless, except that our kids are being targeted everyday by predators on the Internet.
The Modern Wild West
They may think they are the Yosemite Sam?s of the modern world, but you are the New Sheriff in town! Marauders of today do not come moseying up bow-legged into your path with a six-gun slung across their hip telling you to, “Stick ?em up, or else.” Instead, today?s modern outlaws can be in and out of your life without a trace of you knowing what has happened.
Teens And Blogs – Internet Safety Wake-Up Call
In November of 2005, I read that a Roman Catholic high school in Sparta had ordered its students to remove personal blogs from the Internet, in the name of protecting them from cyberpredators. Which brings me to an important question, just how can you keep your child safe online?
The Internet is a “gateway” which leads the adult predator to your child. Parents need to recognize the need to better monitor their children?s online activity. I believe that websites like xanga,…
7 Great Computer User Tips – For Windows® Users Only
An Easy Performance Enhancement
If youre using the NTFS filing protocol on your system, instead of FAT32, you can get a bit more speed by disabling Windows® Indexing. The downside to this is that searching your drive for a specific file might take a moment or two longer, but everything else should run faster.
To disable this feature open My Computer and then right click on the drive you wish to reset usually C-drive. Now click on Properties and then uncheck Allow In…