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Geek Note: A couple of months ago I answered a question from reader Paul D. about robocalls (I.G.T.M. #967, February 1, 2026). It has recently come to my attention that not everybody is as savvy as Paul in being able to detect and identify a call as actually being a robocall.  Let’s consider this week’s […]

Q: This is a real-world example of phishing experience. My spouse peripheral and I returned from a 50-minute absence yesterday to find her desktop screen actually “doing things.” She exclaimed, “Hey, someone’s using my computer!” I looked, and, someone WAS doing so!!!!! The cursor was moving, menus were dropping down, windows were being opened, just […]

Dear Readers:  There have been a lot of changes to It’s Geek To Me since Issue #1 premiered way back on July 26, 2007.  The weekday the column publishes in the local newspaper changed multiple times, the location within the paper changed from it being in the “Next” magazine insert to the business section, to, […]

Q: Beyond the obligatory and ubiquitous “Thanks Bill,” in your digitally-enhanced Genuinely Intelligent (GI) view, why oh why can’t Windows Snipping Tool’s frame size be set in the registry? No matter what trick I apply each time I use the &^%$ thing its size grows, its position changes, and I am forced to manually resize […]

Q: Dear Geek, I’ve been having a bit of a debate with my spouse lately. Do I really need to turn my computer off every single night? I usually just leave it on so I can get right back to my solitaire game or my emails in the morning. But now I’m worried—is it damaging […]