How to get rid of the gray (text on websites)

Tired of trying to read web sites that use gray text for writing?

You’re not the only one. In this edition of The Computer Cat Corner, I will show you how to get rid of your gray text and dye it back to black! Woo hoo!

Free texting from your computer!

Did you know that you can send “Texting” from your computer? Here’s how you can text using your computer for free.

Silverlight’s Offline Browser “Bloat”

“Off-line” browsers are a neat way to look at streaming videos without having the internet. But if you decide to uninstall the browser, those stored video files won’t necessarily be deleted and you can find yourself with a computer bloated with these files. I’ll talk about the most common of these off-line browser application and how you can trim your PC down to size.

Givin’ Some “IE 10 Love” to Windows 7

My Human is very excited today. Out of months of saying “no new IE for Windows 7 users”, Microsoft has finally relented and announced that the more secure IE 10 will now be available for Windows 7 (and Server 2008 too!). Find out more on how to get it for your Win 7 machine!

More “Need Bigger Words” – The Google Chrome Browser

One of my first–and most popular–blogs was “Need Bigger Words”. There, I showed you nice humans how to make text bigger on the major browsers at that time. Now, I’m going to show you how to do it on Google’s Chrome browser.

New Attack on IE Browser Users

Yesterday, a new way to attack computers that used IE was revealed. Today there is a patch to fix that security hole–I’ll tell you what you should be aware of and how to get the patch.

Java Might Be Bad For Your Computer – Hackers exploit hole in Java security

This week, experts around the world have detected a nasty piece of virus that can use your internet browser to take control of PCs and Macs.

Without being too geeky, I’ll tell you a little about what this is, what you can do to keep it from infecting your computer, and how to tell if your computer may be a risk.

July 9th and the Dreaded “DNS Changer”

You might have heard on the ‘netwaves talk about the DNS Changer attack scheduled for July 9th. I’ll give you a non-geek description of what it is, what it does, and what you can to do to test your computer for it.

Page Up/ Page Down buttons are not working with web pages?

I noticed a lot of you enjoy reading my “Need Bigger Words” articles, and I just want to share something from another blogger that you might be experiencing when you are trolling down web pages on the Internet.

Virus Impersonating as a Firefox Flash Update!!

FLASH! I just got a call from my Human telling me about the latest way those no-goodnik hackers are causing bad trouble for good people and cats who use Firefox.

Bigger Words, Episode 4 – “Bigger Printing”

We now all know how to make words bigger on your computer screen. And thanks to a little bird, I’m going to show you how you can make your printing bigger too.

Need Bigger Words!!, Part 3

Last time I showed you how to make words and pictures bigger on web pages if you were using Apple’s Safari or Microsoft’s IE (Internet Explorer). Today I’ll show you how to do the same thing with Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.