Advanced Page Layout in Word 2007: Word Layout Help and Tutorials
November 10, 2008
Full-featured desktop publishing programs such as Adobe InDesign CS4 or QuarkXPress 8 are a must for truly professional page layout work, but Word 2007 can take you reasonably far and give you highly satisfying results. We’ll show you how.
Windows Vista Tips & Tricks
November 7, 2008
It may have taken you months to be persuaded, but switching to Microsoft Windows Vista is certainly not a PC death sentence. With the release of Vista Service Pack 1, you can now enjoy a higher degree of program compatibility, an increased speed when copying large files and connecting to networked PCs, improvements in BitLocker encryption, and a configurable search option. Read more
How To Transfer Your Data from XP to Vista
October 7, 2008
Like many PC users, you’ve probably been looking at Windows Vista since its January release and wondering whether you want to take the jump and buy it. Assuming your computer can handle its demands, and your wallet or plastic can stretch to the price, it’s tempting. But there’s one vital question – can you easily migrate your data to Vista without spending days tearing out your hair? The answer, happily, is yes.
Saving yourself from Identity Theft
September 2, 2008
Identity theft has been a federal offense since 1998. But are we getting any better at dealing with it? Actually, we are. The number of victims and the amount defrauded is down and, most important, it takes less time to clean up the mess. According to a Javelin Strategy & Research survey, as reported by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the number of identity theft victims per year in the U.S. fell by nearly 2 million from 2003 (10.1 million) to 2007 (8.4 million); and the mean time required to undo the damage in each instance was down from 40 hours in 2006 to 25 in 2007. Read more
How to Build an all-in-one Media Center PC for your personal home theater.
September 2, 2008
Most home entertainment setups consist of a bunch of devices that let you view (LCD, plasma TV), play (Blu-ray), store (TiVo, DVR), stream (Apple TV), and interact (Xbox 360, PS3) with rich HD content, but none of them on their own can match the sheer feature power of a home-theater PC (HTPC). An HTPC can do all these things, and more. It’s your home’s central hub for storing, distributing, and enjoying all types of digital content including pictures, videos, music, and movies. Read more
Firefox 3 Highlights Websites’ Security Failings
August 24, 2008
There’s a contentious debate brewing around Firefox 3’s handling of SSL security certificates — the tools that tell the browser whether your connection is actually secure and connected to the site you’re trying to access.
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How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your iPhone Bill
August 24, 2008
Apple has manufactured the telecom’s dream: a phone that will rack up a massive bill all too easily. Read more
iPhone patch fixes 3G issues
August 24, 2008
Apple has acknowledged the iPhone 3G’s reception issues, appearing to confirm that the iPhone OS 2.0.2 software update was designed to fix those problems.
Web Feed Secrets | How to RSS Feed | What is RSS
August 10, 2008
RSS and Atom are the best ways to read or serve content aside from visiting a Web site. Learn how to get the most out of the Web feeds you publish and the Web feeds you read.
You see it everywhere online, that little orange icon with wavy “radio” lines. Typically it looks like this (except smaller):
Secure your Business from Internal Threats
August 10, 2008
In July of 2008, a disgruntled network administrator named Terry Childs allegedly hijacked the San Francisco government’s new Fiber WAN (wide-area network), effectively locking out the city’s remaining IT administrators. By most reports, over 60 percent of the city’s traffic travels over this network, and while it was still operational at the time of Childs’ arrest, the ability to keep the network functioning was teetering on the edge of a razor. At any point, Childs could potentially have brought the network to its knees.
