Choosing Calibration Management Software by Brad Price
Have you have found yourself lost in a software hell? You are not alone. Every magazine you pick up advertises new and improved software; your junk email, I like to call g-mail, tells you of the latest products; you see it in catalogs; and your phone rings and some vendor is pushing you to... Like the hardware, this too can be upgraded if required and many of the high speed cable or DSL connections are as cheap as dial-up. ... On-site work may require the use of a laptop or other portable computer device.

The Evolution Of MP3 Players by David Fishman
In today’s world MP3 players are the fastest and easiest way to listen to music, they are very light and are easy to carry around especially those who are on the go. However, MP3 players are substantially cheaper than CD players with advanced error-correction and anti-shock features. ... MP3 Players are the best way to carry your digital music with you. ... Most of the headphones that ship with MP3 players are mediocre at best. ... MP3 players are very hot and many people are trading in their old walkman.

Internet Security Threats: Who Can Read Your Email? by Mark Brooks
Before being able to choose a secure Internet communication system, you need to understand the threats to your security. Since the beginning of the Internet there has been a naive assumption on the part of most email users that the only people who are reading their email are the people they are... The New Generation Packet Sniffers: At the beginning of 2001, most computer security professionals began to become aware of an alarming new threat to Internet security, the proliferation of cheap, easy to use packet sniffer software.

Avoiding Data Recovery On External Hard Disk Drives by Valerie Const
According to UniRecovery RAID Data Recovery Labs, External Hard Disk Drives provide great flexible storage option and security by providing a mobile back up option, yet this advantage has dangerous twist to users. With storage capacity running in hundreds of Gigabites, accompanied by high rates... The study also explains that no vendor-specific failure information, and that his goal is not "choosing the best and the worst vendors" but to help them to improve drive design and testing. ... On the other hand, we see only one instance of a customer rejecting an entire population of disks as a...

Choosing A New Monitor by Stephen Orgill
The first choice to make, CRT or LCD? The first choice you will have to make when you have decided to purchase a new monitor is what type of monitor you are looking for. The two main choices are CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and the LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) some LCD monitors may be referred to as... This is why they used to be only found in notebooks and laptop computers. ... You will be able to choose these modes but 24-bit colour also known as true colour will provide the best looking picture. ... Have the dots close together and you will get a very sharp image that can look like a picture...

Back Up Your Website by Aleem Khan
We often don't realise how heavily reliant we are on technology until we lose it. If your cell phone goes missing, laptop is stolen or Internet connection goes down for a day, that's when you realise how vulnerable you are to human imperfections. I say human imperfections because machines are... Having said that, let's look at how you can back up your website and e-mails by going through some easy-access back up media: CDs They are now extremely cheap retailing for only a couple of cents and can be found anywhere.

Build Your Own Computer by George W. Cannata
I’m eighty-one years old and I bought my first computer six years ago. When I bought it I hardly knew how to turn it on. I consider myself still a Newbie as I’ve barely scratched the surface of computer technology. I have successfully built about a dozen computers for family, friends and myself. ... The best way to do this is to look at the hard drive and get the manufacturer and model number of the unit. ... People who don’t understand English very well write the manuals and the technical support is like most free things.

Wireless Networking Cards - A Closer Look by Kevin Erickson
Ok, so you've read all the cool stuff and heard all the great things about going wireless and then it just hit you. However, that works you don't know or care but it hit you. That was it, the little voice in your head said, "do it" and that was that. ... This one just happens to be for a Linksys wireless PCMCIA laptop card. ... As a rule of thumb, unless your walls are made of drywall or wood, it's best to buy about four times the strength you think you'll need. ... Clearly, speed is important to your wireless network because it's going to directly influence how long you have to wait to...

Will Adobe Manage to Replace Industry Work Horse Quark XPress by Giving Adobe InDesign for Free? by Galina Arlov
And kill the best layout software in the process of gaining market share? *** Heard about the Quark “killer”? Adobe InDesign CS2. Will it really “kill” Quark? Adobe has been saying “it will” for the last six years or so, but it hasn’t happened. Adobe Pagemaker didn’t kill Quark, either, but was... And don’t even think about installing it on your laptop and run several applications at the same time, or you will be waiting for a very long time to do anything. ... And if someone tries to say otherwise, try to run Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign plus Adobe Bridge at the same time in your...

Will Adobe Manage to Replace Industry Work Horse Quark Express by Giving Adobe InDesign for Free? by S Steele
Heard about the Quark “killer”? Adobe InDesign CS2. Will it really “kill” Quark? Adobe has been saying “it will” for the last six years or so, but it hasn’t happened. Adobe Pagemaker didn’t kill Quark, either, but was instead replaced by InDesign. And InDesign is also at a distant second place... And don’t even think about installing it on your laptop and run several applications at the same time, or you will be waiting for a very long time to do anything. ... And if someone tries to say otherwise, try to run Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign plus Adobe Bridge at the same time in your...