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Best Major Desktop Browser

Nominations will be accepted starting Jan. 18, 2012. Voting will take place from Feb. 22 through March 21 with winners announced March 30.

Do you think you can't be scammed? Or maybe you worry that you might be easily scammed?

Andy O'Donnell, our own About.com Guide to Internet & Network Security, has a fascinating new article that will turn you in to a "human scam detector":

How to Scam-proof Your Brain

Be sure to drop by Andy's blog post of the same name and let Andy know about the "best" scam you've ever had the pleasure of witnessing... or falling victim to.

Every so often, we get a tidbit of information from Microsoft about Windows 8, the version of Windows to supersede Windows 7.

Here are some of the latest things we've found out, courtesy of ZDNet's Microsoft expert, Mary-Jo Foley:

More on Windows 8's new refresh and reset options

These are two new recovery features which should greatly ease restoring Windows.

More on Windows 8's coming drive-extender-style storage

This is a new feature that would allow you to combine all of your various storage devices into one virtual drive.

Windows 8: What we learned this week [at CES]

Lots of fun bits of information in this one, mostly cool Windows-8-on-a-tablet features.

Enjoy!

I talk about browsers every so often - a new Firefox update, a suggestion to use Chrome, an update to Internet Explorer, etc.

But have you ever wondered how those names came to be? "Internet Explorer" might seem logical, but where did "Chrome" come from?

Martin Beeby has all the background in his How to name a web browser (by those who have). It's a fun read. Be sure to check out the comments in his post too... plenty of other theories there as well.

Thanks Scott!

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