Did You Forget the Firewall - Tips and Tricks for the Savvy User by Richard Seng
How to Choose a Firewall: Tips and Tricks for the Savvy User Without a firewall, your computer is opened up your computer to a host of attacks from hackers. These online criminals try to access your computer to change or steal your private information. ... Technical Support is preferably free, and should be over either the phone or the internet. ... Features to look for are the ability to block cookies, websites, browser history logs, and other undesirable things. ... It needs to have good features, be easy to use, be reliable, and have technical support and updates available.

QueenAlice - The Site for Casual Chess on the Web (A Review) by Timothy Trimble
I've been playing chess since I was 15 years old. I was in the Chess Club in school. And I remember the big media blitz on chess during the Boris Spasky versus Bobby Fisher matches. Whew! That was a long time ago. But I'm still a big chess player. As such, I'm always on the lookout for a good... I have found QueenAlice to be an excellent location for playing chess with many of my friends who are not computer or internet experts. ... Now if you're looking for high end chess discussions with international chess masters and advocates, then you'll be happier on other sites like The World Chess...

Spyware and Adware, and How They Interact by Lauren Brehm
The internet is like a petri dish in a biology lab. On average, every system gets “sniffed” by a port sniffing attack, or by an attempted infection by a malicious program roughly once every 10 to 15 seconds. One of the most prevalent categories of malicious software (malware) is spyware, and its... Most spyware is used ostensibly for “market research” – it tracks what web sites you hit, and what programs you use, and transmits it back to a vendor that tabulates the results. ... Some spyware is much more malicious than that, acting as a ferret for passwords and credit card information, or...

Put Your Office On A Flash Drive by John Retzer
Flash drives (a.k.a memory sticks, usb drives, usb keys and thumb drives) make it increasingly easy to take your data on the road. With gigabytes of storage available, you can take all of your spreadsheet, presentation and document files wherever you go. ... And settings and files also need to be stored on your portable drive, not on the host. ... Public computers at libraries, internet cafes and hotel lobbies often have only a browser installed. ... No one will be able to see your "history", or a cache of the sites you visited.

How To Download Your Movies To Your iPod by Paul Giordano
Media junkies, tech geeks, and casual music and cinema fans the world over are constantly searching for a new, more efficient way to acquire and entertain themselves with as much music and movies as humanly possible. Gone, unfortunately are the days of Napster and other primal search engines... Some of these sites offer music, movies, videos, and even TV shows as soon as you hear about them, and even whole albums and TV series. ... What's more, there are websites out there who offer free downloads, but neglect to mention the awesome bonus prize of sending out an invasion force of spy-ware...

The Arrogance of Technologists - Why They Should Treat End Users Like The Dummies They Are by Steve Freedman
Recent experience and and excellent article in CIO magazine have me thinking about some of the things that are wrong about the Culture of Technology. The article in CIO magazine " How to Save the Internet ", the hilarious March 28 post (India Calling) at the Landmark.org Blog (I found them... Something’s Got Hold of My Computer and It Won’t Let Go!” The instructions from Western Digital for dealing with the file structure of the hard drive were incomprehensible to me, and even confusing and incomplete for Western Digital Tech Support.

The Ink Cartridge Refill by Michelle Bery
Part of the joy of computer owning is managing the equipment that goes along with it. Those of us who have a computer in our homes often have a printer on which to print the myriad of projects that have made computer ownership so necessary; business reports and graphs, school projects, shopping... Shopping online is also a great way to find your ink cartridge refill at an affordable price; Internet resources also offer convenience for a one time purchase as well as continued ordering as your order history will be kept at your fingertips.

FREE Google Docs & Spreadsheets ‘Challenge’ MS Office? by Wong Hing
Google Office? No..We called it Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets? Simple. It is lightweight alternatives to Microsoft Office Word and Excel. Only that Google offer online free word processor and spreadsheet, and they allow collaboration... Well, being able to jointly create and edit... The Google Spreadsheets also allow you to do the following: Import and export of .xls, .csv, and .ods formatted data (and export functionality for .pdf and .html). ... Since Google Docs & Spreadsheets saves to a secure, online storage facility, you can access your documents and spreadsheets from...

Cheap Ipods Everywhere! The New Slogan of The Decade I Want My iPod by Chris Ryerson
Well, many out there might not even remember when MTV or Music Television was first aired. However, if you check the history of MTV you will find that one of the most popular sayings in the early 1980’s was a slogan from MTV. It of course was set with cool music and all and it went like this, “I... So this leads many people to search all over the internet and even on auction sites like eBay trying to find a cheap iPod. ... These models might not have all of the latest and greatest features and cook a dinner for you at the same time as playing music.

Disrespecting Technology Workers by George Lunt
From my experience working for corporate aliens, from what others have told me, and from numerous articles on the internet, I have come to the conclusion that managers of many corporations show considerable disrespect to their technology workers. Throughout my career, I've had a several bad... I assisted all office personnel and instructors with their computer, networking, or internet problems. ... Whenever new computers came in and needed to be set up, either me or one of my assistants would physically unpack the computers and monitors and set them up for the user.