How to maintain your privacy

Maintaining your privacy online is simple yet few people take the effort in maintaining it. Web sites are able to track your online habits and sell your information to third parties. The main threats to online privacy are identity theft, phishing or emails scams, credit card fraud and cracking of passwords. Phishing is responsible for most identity [...]

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Protecting your children from online threats

Protecting your children online is becoming more important as children are faced with many dangers online. Children use the Internet to research school homework, send and receive emails, chat with friends, download songs, browse websites and posting to message boards. The worst threat of all is when a child wants to meet an online friend [...]

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Windows Vista Review

Finally Windows XP has a successor. Microsoft has launched a brand new operating system after almost five years (which is the longest update span from Microsoft) of Windows XP called Windows Vista, earlier known by a codename Longhorn prior to release. As of January 30th 2007, Windows Vista was released to the public and is [...]

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Why I’m Fed Up With Microsoft

I’ve been using computers for a very long time. I can talk about AS400, Unix, and old operating systems like CPM and DOS. I can even talk about Microsoft Windows 286. Win 286? Yes, there was a Windows 286 and I think one more before that. Back then Windows was nothing more than an attempt to copy [...]

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Guide To Buying a Cheap Laptop

Welcome. You have found the online destination for a common sense guide to buying a cheap laptop or a cheap computer. Whether new, used or refurbished, you will discover specific techniques to buy them cheaper. Never before have the times been better to own a cheap notebook computer or a cheap desktop computer. The Sunday newspapers [...]

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The Mac Mini challenge

Mac Mini DuoA lawyer friend recently confessed his desire to “experiment” with a Mac and asked me for some input. I was a bit surprised by his request because this particular friend really loves Windows (he recently upgraded to Vista and raves about it, a lot). I thought about how best to respond, and ultimately [...]

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What Is A Refurbished Laptop?

Cheap refurbished laptop computers may be the best kept secret in the industry. They should be the number one strategy in your quest for a cheap laptop. Savings of up to 60% off of retail price are common. Big name companies such as Dell, Sony, Gateway and others have countless top of the line laptops that are [...]

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Why Disk Defragmentation is important

When your computer is slowing down, you will be advised to perform a disk defragmentation. When you actually do defrag your disk, you will surely notice a difference. Why is Disk Defragmentation helpful? How does it work? When files and date are saved on your hard drive. The system will try and save all that [...]

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Photoshop: Brightness And Contrast

If you’re like me you have questions about things that some people think are obvious. I’m not techie at all so when I use software that requires the least amount of technical skill I get nervous. This article will cover some of the basics related to Photoshop ‘Drawing Tools’ and ‘Special Effects’. First you should know that [...]

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Photoshop: Using The Burn, Dodge & Sponge Tools

Many times you will find that you need to adjust the lighting effect of a particular area. Fortunately Photoshop comes equipped with features that allow just that! As you might imagine, the ‘Burn’ tool is used to darken an area of an image. In contrast, the ‘Dodge’ tool is used to lighten areas. The ‘Sponge’ tool [...]

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