The KA Data Group application, MyHome now includes support for the Windows Vista Operating System.  Release version 0.91 is now Vista compatible and works better than ever!  MyHome allows direct editing of website components by the website owner without the need to involve KA Data Group personnel, and without any additional maintenance fees.  The application runs directly on a PC computer with a WYSISYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface.  The user Does their own design work and when finished, just presses one button to publish the results to their website.  

MyHome is another example of KA Data Group's web-enabled application interfaces that allow PCs to harness the power of the Internet with little technical expertise from the user.

KA Data Group is happy to announce the launch of a new website for Midwest Feeder in Belvidere. Midwest Feeder builds custom feeders, screw feeders, inlines, parts elevators, and many more automated feeding devices used in the manufacturing industry. The website has photos of many of their standard products and custom made items. They offer online quote requests and contact forms directly from the website.  The website address is www.midwestfeeder.com. Stop by and visit them soon!

Would you rather not have to log on after your computer starts? If you’re the only person who uses your computer, you can make life a little easier by skipping the Welcome screen completely and having Microsoft Windows XP take you straight to your desktop.

This article, from Microsoft's Tips & Tricks site can tell you how.

Screen savers were originally intended to prevent monitor burn-in, which could occur if a single image was displayed most of the time. Over time, that image would essentially become etched into the display, making the monitor harder to use. Monitor technology has improved over the years, and screen savers have become more a form of entertainment than a way to avoid burn-in.

Read more to find out how to turn on a screen saver immediately, whenever you want...

In an effort to avoid fraud and identity theft, a number of states are making or have made it illegal for employers to disclose employee social security numbers on paychecks or other employment-related documents.

Arizona, California, Maryland, Michigan and Oklahoma have already enacted laws, and Texas is currently exploring methods of implementation.

An interesting article reprinted from Reuters...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O) is preparing a service that would enable users to store data from their personal hard drives on its computers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition.

One of your best ways of protecting your LAN isn't to protect the network itself - it's to protect the individual PCs on it. If an intruder makes his way onto your network, but then can't touch any of your PCs, the only damage he'll be able to do is steal your bandwidth. So use a firewall on each of your PCs.

Many common Internet searches can be performed quickly using the "go" shortcut. For example, if you open Search in Internet Explorer and type go yellow pages, the page will jump to a form where you can lookup a business phone number. Likewise, typing go email automatically brings up a form for searching for a person's email.

You can even type go yellow pages Acme Corp to automatically search for the phone number of a company called Acme Corp. And you can type go amzn to look up the value of a stock quote (in this case Amazon's).

Part five of our six steps in securing your wireless network is very straight forward.  If you've taken every possible step to keep out wireless intruders, there's still a chance that someone can get onto your network. So you should regularly check to see whether someone's where he shouldn't be - on your network.

Normally, when your computer connects to your network, your router gives it an IP address. Every computer connected to the Internet needs an IP address in order to browse the Web.

Most times, your router just hands out these IP addresses without question to all network clients, so any time a nearby wireless PC asks for an IP address, the router hands one over with no questions asked.

Every piece of networking hardware has a unique ID number, like a serial number, called a MAC address. No two pieces of networking hardware have the same MAC address. A MAC address always has 12 hexadecimal digits and looks something like this: 00-08-A1-0B-8E-3D.

You can use these MAC addresses to keep out intruders. Many routers let you permit only certain MAC addresses onto your network. You can set your router to let in each of your computers, and keep everyone else out.

It's simple: You need to use encryption. Encryption keeps you safe in two ways. First, it won't allow anyone onto your network who doesn't have the special pass key, so it's a way to make sure that intruders can't get it. It also stops snoopers as well, because anyone who tries to sniff out network activity will only see garbled, meaningless characters, rather than your email, for example.

There are two encryption standards you can use to protect your network: Wireless Equivalent Protocol (WEP) and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA).