The Peer-to-Peer Fiasco – A Tax Time Warning! by Greg Richburg
It has been almost 2 years since I last visited this topic, and to my amazement, this problem has grown to enormous proportions. Napster, Morpheus, Bearshare, Kazaa… Sound familiar? Well the originals are still available, but the new kids on the block that are really making a stir are Shareaza,... Or maybe you don’t even know you have a P2P file sharing application on your home office computer because your 11 year only son who is more computer savvy than you just had to download the new “Golddigger” mix by Kanye West with Jamie Fox in the background.

Making Music With Your Computer by Robert Fischer
Up until a few years ago, making music meant a massive investment in time and money. Those days are fortunately gone now, you can use your computer to record and edit your vocals or instruments, and burn a CD of your work afterwards, ready to be played on your CD player. ... A good idea is to start with free software, then move on to commercial software once you got the hang of it and your requirements grow. ... In order to make music with your computer, the minimum you need is a soundcard and good software.

Should you Care for Your Windows Registry Health? by Ted Peterson
What are Windows registry? Why are they so important for your operating system? What can you do to keep them reliable? According to Microsoft site, registry are "a central hierarchical database used in Microsoft Windows ... to store information necessary to configure the system for one or more... That data include program folder, associated files, various settings that are used by the program, whether it will run on startup (HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run/ ) or only at the first startup (HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/RunOnce/ ).

With So Many Barcode Printing Technologies, Which One is Right for My Business? by Vaughn Balchunas
First of all, it is not necessary to have a dedicated barcode printer. Any printer that can print labels will print barcode labels with the right software. But, in almost every serious business situation having a dedicated printer makes sense. Dedicated barcode printers are designed to work with... This is because the fonts have to be located on the local computer. ... But, they may not be suitable for your situation if you are designing or printing barcode labels using a web application or browser.

Why Do I Need Photo Compression Software? by Scott Heath
Like time in a bottle, our photographs are memories of moments forever captured. In conventional cameras, chemical and mechanical processes captured images on film. To email a picture taken on film to a friend, the film needs to be developed into individual photos, and the photo then has to be... The more memory required to store images, the harder a computer processor has to work to run software applications. ... Another way to reduce the amount of memory needed to store images on your computer is to use compression software.

Why You Should Know Your Shortcuts? by Chris Le Roy
In my training practice one of the biggest complaints we get is our persistence in requiring our students to know their shortcuts and to practice in class using the keyboards. To become truly effective and productive in using any of the Microsoft Office Applications you must know the shortcuts. ... Some of the more common shortcuts for moving the Insertion Point in Microsoft Office are – [Home] – Moves to the start of the line [End] – Moves to the end of the line [Ctrl] + [Home] – Moves to the First Character first line of the document [Ctrl] + [End] – Moves to the Last Character last...

The Cell - A Revolution In 3d Rendering And Graphic Applications by Tim Morrison
The Cell Broadband Engine is a distributed computer processor capable of running instructions at upwards of 200 gigaflops or 200 trillion instructions per second. Although these would be fairly simple instructions, the speed of the Cell means it can process very complex information faster... Load a software application on the linux pc that can coordinate a distributed computing environment Load a node application onto each PS3's linux kernel so they can run code sent from the central computer.

Do Computers Suffer From Obesity? by Mykola Rudenko
Remember the day when you bought your new PC with Windows installed? It was lightning fast. It took only about ten seconds to boot. When you opened the Start menu or the load/save file dialogs, they showed up instantly. But, after a year of heavy use, you now realize that your PC has some... Even large software companies produce software that may harm your system integrity and leave some "cholesterol" in your computer's veins. ... All of the so-called software certificates can only guarantee the authenticity of a software product and not its quality.

Create Screen Prototypes For Clear Software Requirements by Igor Jese
I'm in software development for 15 years and I can tell you one thing for sure: misunderstandings are costly in software development. If you are not careful, you could find yourself aiming at the moving target or even end up building the application nobody needs or wants. ... Pick your tool, but focus on the real problem: to quickly engineer clear requirements for a software application. ... Discuss scenarios on screen, in your web browser or over a printed hard-copy - it doesn't really matter, just be very careful to avoid the conception that these are screens of the real computer program.

Escrow Software by Sandro Azzopardi
In a software scenario there are normally two main parties involved; the software programmer or the software company, and the end-user or the company purchasing the software package. Escrow software is a means by which a third party is involved, called an escrow agent, with the responsibility of... The source code is the origin of the ultimate software application and has a substantial value in the sense that without it the application cannot be generated and therefore executed. ... End-User Having an escrow software service, the user is guaranteed that the source code used for his...