With new threats appearing on a daily basis, how do you know you’re protected enough? For that matter, maybe you’re over protected with too much security software slowing your system down. A few years ago, most people got along fine without antivirus. Now many people have antivirus software, antispy software, anti-spam, popup blockers, and a […]
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about something called net neutrality. What is it? Is Switzerland taking over the net? No. Are we doing a slow transition from Drive into Reverse? Possibly. It’s about keeping the speed of the internet neutral with respect to what you’re trying to do on it. That means watching […]
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Microsoft Word. Nearly everyone knows how to use it but the vast majority of us never paid for it or perhaps we paid for one copy and since then have installed it on a small island nation’s worth of computers. This was possible because it was technically difficult to enforce software licenses. Oh no it […]
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My Treo 650 has served me well. I am continually learning to use it’s many features and support it with accessories. For the first few months, I struggled with a couple of different earpieces that I used in the car and elsewhere. Recently, I misplaced my wired Jabra and decided to break down and go […]
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since I worked on commentsovernews.com but I’m still getting like 900 hits a day on the site. I think most of that is search engine bots indexing the constantly changing stories there. It’s quite easy to go on the site and comment on news and I still think the site has some possibilities. I just […]
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About a week ago, my cellphone crashed. It didn’t just up and crash. It actually started using up batteries quite a lot and always seemed to be syncing with the server. I think I had it loaded up with too much email and stuff. In any case, it was getting worse and worse until finally […]
I’ve created a new site I’m extremely excited about because it’s got a lot of great possibilitises. It’s a news discussion site with comment ratings, threaded comments, and news that updates every 15 minutes from AP and Reuters feeds. That’s cool but my key innovation here is to add a points system so people can […]
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I often help people do things in Word and Excel. I really love Excel…must be my desire to turn everything into a number so I can graph it and discover trends. In any case here are a few tips that you might be able to use to speed up your Word and Excel usage: * […]
A site that just showed up on the Trends list today is called cl1p.net. The idea over there is to create a super-simple internet clipboard. You create an entry by adding a word or some numbers to the website address after a /. So for instance I made my own by going to cl1p.net/davidsterry and […]
I got a Treo 650 about a month and a half ago. I meant to give you the rundown earlier but the month and a half has given me enough time to find most of the tricks and problems that I will ever know or have with it. What I like about it:* I love […]