Customize Microsoft Office 2010 apps to work your way – in just minutes.
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Ask Leo: How can I make an income working online?
By Leo Notenboom
Making money online sounds like a wonderful opportunity. It is. It’s also a lot of work, if you have the personality for it.
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New Operating System Announced by Google
Better, faster, easier. That’s what the world is all about and it going to be easier to connect than ever before.
Just be sure you know where you’re headed
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Dodge Retort: To 4G or not to 4G
By John Dodge
For now, my 4G decision is easy because Verizon has already made it for me.
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TechBite: 12 Smart Firefox and IE Add-Ons
By Steve Bass
Fix Up Your Browser
I can’t get enough of the handy-dandy freebies that clump onto Firefox (and Internet Explorer) and make the browsers smarter and easier to work.
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Dodge Retort: McAfee Hassles
By John Dodge
When three of your computers start acting up, you look for the common culprit. By acting up, I mean slow to a crawl or shut you out of key applications.
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Should I use a Registry Cleaner?
By Steve Hogan
One question I see over and over in our forums and even in our Customer Service department is, “What’s the best registry cleaner ” or “Is it safe to use a registry cleaner”. You’ll find almost as many answers to this question as there are geeks in a Starbucks. Look inside to find what works best.
Dont buy snake oil.
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Ask Leo: Erasing My Hard Drive Before I Give It Away
By Leo Notenboom
Erasing your hard drive before you give it away is important. Exactly how thorough an erase you need depends on your data and level of paranoia.
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Is the Post-PC Era at Hand? Not so fast…
Not surprisingly, recent comments by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer – reveal two sharply different views on the evolution of personal computing.
Are we on the verge of a new post-pc era or has it already begun?
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TechBite: A Smart Printer with $4.99 Cartridges
By Steve Bass
I think we’ve got the razor-blade method of marketing printers figured out: Sell the printer for a couple of bucks, then gouge and exploit us on cartridges. I hate it.
Lexmark makes its money the old-fashioned way. It sells printers at higher-than-competitor’s printers, but then sells the ink cartridges at reasonable prices.
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Ask Leo: Are computers simply too unsafe to use?
By Leo Notenboom
With all the attention that malware and security issues keep getting it’s easy to think that there’s no hope for safe computing. There is.
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Ask Leo: Keep Info on a Shared Computer Private?
By Leo Notenboom
I share a computer and I want to know how to keep my information private.
Ultimately … you can’t. At least not easily, and even then it depends on the data that you’re attempting to keep private, and the technical savvy of the individuals that you’re attempting to keep it private from.
There’s nothing like your own computer. But if you have to share, there are a couple of things that might help. A little.
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TechBite: Fixes for 3 PC Annoyances
By Steve Bass
I know you’re not always happy with your PC, so here are three
fixes to some of the annoyances you’ve sent to me.
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TechBite: Use the Web to Find Anyone in the World
By Steve Bass
Find Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (Almost)
"You find my long-lost buddy and I’ll paint any room in your house." I was talking to a couple of friends about how I had tracked down a wayward YahooGroup moderator.
It was a sweet deal (the kitchen has three colors, lots of cabinets, and needs painting) and I was up for the challenge.
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TechBite: 10 More Super-Duper Firefox Extensions
By Steve Bass
I love it when you write and pass along handy ideas. I received hundreds of messages (okay, 50, but who’s counting) sharing Firefox add-ons, extensions, and tips — and I’m successfully using many of them. Here are some of the most useful of the bunch.
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10 Rules to Protect your Passwords
If you have been following the news, the social media web site Twitter was compromised last month. When the story hit, the “hacker” had copies of Twitter’s most intimate information – financial forecast, employee rosters, etc. Roll back to the 2008 American presidential candidate race, and Sarah Palin, vice president hopeful, was also “hacked.”
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ASK THE PROS July Drive Management
Howdy and Happy Independence Day to everyone in the US. The past week has seen more questions on drives and boot problems so I decided to take a good look at Windows Disk Management. Disk Management has always been a good utility, but starting with Vista and continuing into Windows 7, it has become a powerful and simple way to format and partition drives. You can manage the drive your booting from, or you can format and partition new drives for later installations and use.
Let’s take a look at this weeks question and see where it takes us.
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Software is Wasting Your Cores
Back in February, Steve Hogan made the case for getting a multi-core system. Rob Cheng’s experience shows that dual-core systems aren’t always faster though. It’s possible for a multi-core system to outperform a single-core system, but you’re not likely to see a desktop operating system or many applications that can take advantage of it. There are good reasons for that problem, and they aren’t going away any time soon.
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