tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177766832011-10-18T11:51:56.892+01:00Tyme provides a one-click, all-access to PC Tech world info, news, Award-winning editorial content that are most important to you in your everyday life.Obi-Akperehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14303845665296824648noreply@blogger.comBlogger6251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17776683.post-66914321707232052232008-07-12T13:02:00.000+01:002008-07-12T13:33:25.325+01:00

So you want to install Linux and Vista on the same drive? This UPDATED dual booting tutorial shows you how to do it even if Vista SP1 scorches your bootloader. Page 1 - Intro Updated 5 June 2008 to use Ubuntu 8.04 rather than 7.04 Scenario: You have Linux already installed but want to dual boot it with Vista on the same hard drive. Summary of tutorial: We'll dual-boot Ubuntu 8.04 with Vista.

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In May, Udi Manber introduced our search quality group, the group responsible for the ranking of search results. He introduced various teams within "Quality" (as we like to call the group) including Core Ranking, International Search, User Interfaces, Evaluation, Webspam, and other teams. In this post, I want to tell you more about one of these: the Core Ranking team.Let me introduce myself. My

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Your mobile phone, be it high-end or only basic-featured, can do more things than you might be aware of. We're presenting some of these "tricks" below, hoping that they will be of help, although some of you might already know one or more of them. The GSM emergency call is the same all over the world: 112. This number can be dialed even when your keypad is locked and, on most handsets, even

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Beginning in July, Bill Gates will switch jobs for the first time in his adult life, stepping out of a full-time job at Microsoft and moving over to philanthropy. The whole world is a far different place for what he and Microsoft did. At the heart of the high-tech industry is innovation! this employee isn't just any staff member; he is Bill Gates. Although he will remain chairman,

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Three of our most useful products for website owners are Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, and Google Website Optimizer. On July 8, we're joining forces to bring you a free webinar about all of them so you can learn more about how they can boost your website when used together.Here's the trifecta:Google Webmaster Tools is a resource to gauge the visibility of your pages on Google. It

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Google isn't just for researching information, finding the nearest bar, or viewing the popularity of your own name (c'mon, we know you do it). There's so much more you can do. For example, you can use Google's apps to check gas prices in your area, view street-level images of major cities, track packages, get flight statuses, etc. Odds are you're spending a lot of time on Google (we know we do)

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The Ex-MS supremo found Windows "unusable". But which version?Court cases can be long, expensive and extremely tedious affairs -- just ask Take Two Interactive, or for that matter, SCO. The one thing that they do leave behind (aside from mountains of lawyer's bills) are paper trails, as everything that could possibly be delivered in evidence is delivered, documented, and stored somewhere.That was

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Identity theft has become a huge problem in the United States. The FTC recently reported that identity theft was the number one complaint again last year for the eighth consecutive year! There are literally thousands of scams out there, and you're probably familiar with most of them, but new scams are getting more sophisticated as people get savvier. For this reason, I thought I'd highlight some

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The sun's out. You decide to log off and go to the park. Upon arrival, you subconsciously check for the smart phone that’s always in your pocket. It's not there. Now what?According to a recent report, 68 percent of us would feel disoriented and nervous, a phenomenon labeled “disconnect anxiety.” Instead of relishing the break, we freak out.What if my BFF texts me? What if my boss e-mails a new

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Michael Fiola, a 53-year-old state employee was set free of child-pornography charges by a Massachusetts court, It was alleged that he had accessed the illegal material at work, but an extensive forensic investigation of his computer revealed that viruses and other malicious programsn were the culprits. Why would someone create a virus that downloads child pornography? So other people

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Claim: Entering one's PIN in reverse at any ATM will summon the police.Status: False. Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006]I just found out that should you ever be forced to withdraw monies from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin # in reverse. The machine will still give you the monies you requested, but unkown to the robber, etc, the police will be immediately

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Microsoft made no secret out of having, for some time now, been cooking the next iteration of Windows, a translucent development process with very little transparent areas including details such as multi-touch, support for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and the evolution of the Windows Vista kernel, graphics and audio subsystems. Pieces of the Windows 7 puzzle are indeed starting to come

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We did the math: If you bought popular apps instead of trying their gratis counter-parts, at the manufacturers' list prices you'd be out $5,183 and change! Why spend money when you can get what you need for nothing? Sometimes, you do get what you don't pay for.   Hall of Fame Adobe Readerwww.adobe.comWindows | MacOS | Linux | Mobile This simplest of Adobe's PDF programs lets you do just

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A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S. spy satellite that had been malfunctioning 130 miles above the Earth. The price tag for the endeavor has been pegged at upward of $30 million and even as high as $60 million, depending on the news report. Why did it cost so much money to shoot one missile?A missile fired from a Navy warship on Wednesday night shot down a U.S.

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Ever worry where that stylist's hair brush or nail file has been? Here's how to avoid common salon mishaps and germs.By definition, getting pampered shouldn't be painful. But if you're heading to the salon, you don't want your indulgent treatment to come with anything extra, like an infection. Millions of people visit manicurists each year, and every so often they end up with untrained beauty

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During the next week, a wayward U.S. spy satellite will make passes across North America and western Europe soon after sunset and should be easily visible to the unaided eye.That's if it doesn't get shot down first.The falling satellite is named USA 193. It was launched Dec. 14, 2006. It has been described as being similar in size to a school bus and might weigh as much as 10,000 pounds. It

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Scientists in New Zealand and Japanhave created a "tear-free" onion using biotechnology to switch off thegene behind the enzyme that makes us cry, one of the leadingresearchers said Friday. The discovery could signal an end to one of cooking's eternal puzzles: why does cutting up a simple onion sting the eyes and trigger teardrops?The research institute in New Zealand, Crop and Food, used

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Anonymous writes: I am soon to be a single mother. My soon to be ex-husband and I owned a computer store. I only have a working knowledge of computers; he was very good at it. When he left the house, he still was able to enter the PC, and I think he installed a keylogger program on the family computer. I can't do anything on my computer at home for this reason, and was wondering if you would

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"Few rules are more confounding to airline passengers than those regarding the use of cellphones and portable electronic devices." I'd add the quart-sized plastic bag to that list, but I digress: Smith is right. Is it really true that something as innocuous as a Treo left on in row 32 could cause a jumbo jet to go down in flames? Let's ask Smith himself: He isn't just a pundit, he's a

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Is Microsoft cooking something extra juicy for Linux/open source? The Redmond company announced earlier this week that a prominent member of the open source security world has jumped onboard, switching sides from Linux to Windows. Michael Howard, Senior Security Program Manager in the Security Engineering group at Microsoft, revealed that Crispin Cowan, CTO & Co-Founder, Immunix, would be

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If you thought that malware has made an obsession out of Windows-based operating systems only, you're wrong. A new type of criminal attack is committed to take over one of the most common hardwarein a computer network: the router. According to the latest security reports, a new kind of attack tries to lure Internet users on spoofed banking pages, where they are faced with an exact clone of

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Since we launched themes on iGoogle last March, we've enjoyed seeing how people have connected with them. For instance, we've gotten fan mail for the "fox in the teahouse" theme, and seen some great blog posts generated when folks discover the Easter egg for each theme.Users and developers alike have been clamoring to know when they can develop themes for the iGoogle homepage, and we're happy to

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There are a lot of data points that can be meaningful for tracking blog effectiveness. That is, tracking what happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content. It really comes down to the purpose of your blog. Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly by adding crawlable content and attracting links is quite different than a blog that’s

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Admit it: For many of us, our work computer is a home away from home.It seems only fair, since our home computer is typically an office away from the office. So in between typing up reports and poring over spreadsheets, we use our office PCs to keep up with our lives. We do birthday shopping, check out funny clips on YouTube and catch up with friends by e-mail or instant message.And often it's

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If you're running an ATI video card in your machine, you might have noticed image ghosting, blurring and smearing when playing back DVDs and videos. Here's how to fix it. All my Vista Media Centre machines are based around ATI hardware – I don’t have a particular bias against NVIDIA products, but I’ve found the ATI drivers to be just that much more stable and responsive over time, and sometimes

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The race to develop applications for Google's new Android mobile phone platform is officially on after 'cross-platform bugs' in the submission system were fixed. Google has allocated $10m to the competition which has been split into two parts. Challenge 1 will be accepting entries until March 3rd with a total prize pool of $5m. The Android competition is designed to generate lots of apps, not

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Last week Microsoft released an updated build of Windows Vista SP1 to a private testers group via Microsoft Connect. A couple of days later the release was extended to the general public via Windows Update, which means it’s not available as a full, self-contained install package.The new build doesn’t contain any new features, but rather a number of fixes for bugs encountered by beta testers

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Like an anorexic fashion model, Apple's new super-thin MacBook Air has made too many compromises for the sake of being skinny. 1. 80GB iPod hard drive being used as a system drive. It's 4200 RPM slow and after years of encouraging people to amass a horde of digital media, how can Apple really expect people to fit their iTunes library, digital videos and so on onto 80GB? With notebook hard

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Microsoft is currently in the final stages of cooking both Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. In December 2007, the first public builds of Vista SP1 and XP SP3, namely the Release Candidates became available for download.In the second week in January, the Redmond company dropped a refresh for Vista SP1 RC1, namely Build 17128. As of now, there is no word yet if

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Let's face it: 2007 was a bumper year for gamers, no matter what platform or genre you're into. But the New Year is a time to look forward, and all signs indicate that this year's going to be even better. Here are the 10 games we're most anticipating in 2008, from Grand Theft Auto to Fallout 3, complete with the hottest video clips for each one. By the time you reach the end, expect to make your

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When I first clicked on this article, I expected to see yet another diatribe telling you to use numbers, mixed-case letters, and special characters when you created a password. Boy was I wrong.Get past some of the geeky language and you'll find a truly eye-opening story about the security of passwords in Windows.Some key points from the piece (at least, points that challenge the conventional

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When it comes to security, Bruce Schneier is a god among us mere mortals. He has written some of the most influential books on computer security and cryptography ever printed, and his blog is essential reading for anyone on the Internet.So when Bruce says here's how to create a secure password (and how he creates his own passwords), I listen. His post on the topic is extensive, so I'll try to

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Target markets for the iPhone and BlackBerry are starting to overlap. The iPhone is a media consumer's dream, playing movies and musicwith ease. But it's not as finely tuned for the corporate user; largecompanies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on corporatenetworks, and IT consultant Gartner has advised its corporate clientsto avoid the iPhone for now.Meanwhile, BlackBerrys are taking

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Better TV is coming, but are you ready for it?The digital dilemma: Disappearance of analog signals just a year away Behind the placid pictures, a made-for-TV storm is looming.Since the first days of television, the method of beaming pictures into our living rooms hasn’t changed much. But on Feb. 17, 2009, television stations across the country will hit the off button on this time-tested

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2007 has been a busy year when it comes to computer security, with all kinds of threats aiming to be deployed on people's computers. Trojan horses, malware, viruses, spam and hack attacks, they have all joined their forces to break into our systems. Because of that, security companies from all over the world struggled to build new solutions or to update the existing ones, just to prove the

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The tools used for navigation and exploration are fraught with metaphorical possibility. A compass or telescope can be a powerful symbol for search, discovery, and the fearless embrace of the unknown. A map can tell you where you are, give you an idea of what lies ahead, and even better, give scale and breadth to your location. Maps connect us with the world in a way that is tangible, visual and

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Yesterday I listed my top software picks for 2007. Now let’s turn our attention to the Web, where some truly stellar services appeared and/or evolved this year. Seriously, how did we ever call ourselves productive before the Web came along?Google Everything I can’t pick a single Google product. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, Google Notebook… shall I go on? Although these aren’t

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You’ve got to hand it to the folks at Ogilvy PR. First they stuck their necks out to codify a “Blogger PR Code of Ethics,” and now they are back with Round 2, consisting of modifications and amplifications of their original code. For their efforts and for posting it all for the rest of us to use, they deserve a round of applause.We posted on this topic a few days ago, so if you need to get up to

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As the year winds to a close, it’s time to look back on some of the killer apps we’ve covered in 2007. Here’s a list of my personal favorites:GIMP 2.4 Photoshop-caliber image editing without the high price. In fact, there’s no price at all: GIMP is an open-source (read: free) application.ODIR The Outlook Duplicate Items Remover does exactly what it promises: finds and removes duplicate entries in

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The colored labels, which were introduced a couple of weeks ago, kind of revolutionized the approach to inbox and made it all of a sudden a friendly place with a means to quickly find whatever was needed, without having to use the internal search engine built into the client. If red meansfamily, then just click it in order to find all the mails from your siblings or whoever wrote you and have

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lthough we're all expecting to see a rise in the number of web attacks, there are only a few weak spam campaigns currently in progress with low damage potential and pretty easy to detect malicious attachments. Security company F-Secure today found another spamattack attempting to deploy an executable file, which shows a nice looking Christmas Tree on your desktop. But it actually drops some

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Chances are you just finished dropping a boatload of money on holidaygifts. You probably paid for the bulk of your purchases with a debit orcredit card, particularly if you did any of your shopping online. Butwhat did you do to protect yourself against identity theft?Probably not much — most people rarely, if ever, look over their shoulder before handing over their credit card. Some don't even

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NEW YORK (AP) -- In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine.That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002, but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was surprised the growth wasn't higher."Yes it's doubled, but it's still the

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If you've ever heard George Carlin's famous "Seven Dirty Words" you can't say on TV, you can safely avoid using all seven in your subject lines. They will definitely get you blocked. Here is a list of 100 more that you should avoid using as well: Top 100 words NOT to use in your subject lines: 100% free 50% off act nowall words that relate to sex or pornography all words that related to cures or

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As someone who tests Google products daily, I know that the simplest solution is often the one that works best. In the case of online storage, whether it's a picture, a video or an email, you should just, well, be able to store it without having to worry about whether you've got enough space in each particular product. That's why the Picasa team is pleased to tell you that in a few hours we'll be

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Blogs are so often associated with teenagers grousing about their tortured high-school lives or tech geeks indulging their vanity by touting inflated page-view numbers. But a blog is nothing more than a quick and simple way to share what’s on your mind with others — and a great way for colleagues to check in on you or to get a quick sense for how you view the world around you.For this reason,

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.By now, your company has probably discussed some type of search engine marketing (SEM) initiative. You are not alone. SEM has become increasingly important to all who look to do business and use the Web as a marketing tool. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), the SEM market is over $10 billion in North America alone. Therefore, the biggest question isn't

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In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.—Andy Warhol Most bloggers want more than Warhol's prophesy, me included. We want our blogs, our ideas to be widely circulated and to infuse meaning into today's conversation. But there is a healthy respect and fear-factor surrounding the blogosphere. Several marketing and advertising executives have told me they are scared stiff about

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Organic search engine optimization, until recently, had been a fairly straightforward endeavor. The goal was to optimize the content on a Web site so that it would show up in the organic results on one or more of the major search engines—results that were composed of nothing but other Web sites.However, in the middle of May 2007, Google began rolling out its "Universal Search," something it had

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Everyone knows that they should always back up their system. Occasionally, some people even remember to do it. And then the system fails or something corrupts and you have to rebuild, and even though you’ve got a backup, the one thing you don’t have is a backup of your user profile. As you use and customise a computer over time, all those personal choices are stored in your local profile. And it’

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Did it ever happen to you to buy a new CD or DVD only to find out thatthe optical drive doesn't recognize it? There's a good way of making itreadable again and it doesn't involve rocket science. It just requiresa good hot bath.Not for you, for the disk. Boiling disks in water for a short time can recover even the most stubborn of them and can saveyou from pulling out some hairs from not being

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The world of web browsers is divided between three great giants. Well, judging by their market share there is only one monopolizing web browser and that is Internet Explorer (with almost 80% of the market). The weird thing is that more and more polls show a user affinity towards Firefox (a normal effect for releasing a hell of a product). The third browser worthy of your attention is Opera with a

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Google'sadvertising platform AdSense is surely the most popular solution in itscategory because it brings free money to numerous registered members.If you didn't know, the Mountain View company automatically sendschecks to advertisers once the amount of money from your accountreaches a certain limit. Because the checks are sent from MountainView, California, USA, some users might encounter

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Businesses are flocking to Gmail in droves, and with good reason: It’s arguably the best Web-based mail service on the planet. If you’re one of the cool kids (i.e., a Gmail user), check out Lifehacker’s list of the top 10 Gmail applications and add-ons. Many of them require Firefox (which certainly isn’t a bad thing — it’s my browser of choice), but all of them are free and undeniably useful. I’m

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A reader asks …I understand that it’s important to target journalists with relevant material, but I’m having a hard time figuring out HOW to identify/find/get in touch with those journalists. Many journals have a general email address on their site if you dig enough (eg, “Send all press releases to pr@journal.com”). However I have a feeling my PR will get lost in a heap of spam. Any advice? (BTW,

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We are committed to an ongoing process to improve our privacy practices, and have recently taken a closer look at the question of cookie privacy. How long should a web site "remember" cookie information in its logs after a user's visit? And when should a cookie expire on your computer? Cookie privacy is both a server and a client issue.On the server side, we recently announced that we will

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As of September 1st, all new cars, vans, light trucks and SUVs sold in Canada will have to be fitted with anti-theft electronic immobilizers as mandated by Transport Canada. Most carmakers have announced plans to equip their 2008 model vehicles in Canada with immobilizers as standard equipment, and the move has been widely applauded by Insurance Bureau of Canada as it will undoubtedly reduce

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The amount of Web site maintenance required depends very much on the size of your Web site and the amount of new content that is being added to it on a regular basis. Web sites are not like brochures or other print material: they change (or should), sometimes because of an action you have taken and sometimes because of external factors. Web sites must therefore be monitored on a regular basis.

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How do you survive a poorly run meeting? How do you explain your ideas in thirty seconds? Guy Kawasaki—Apple evangelist—tells you in tiny snippets what you need to be able to do in the office environment and how to do it in a recent blog post on his site, How to Change the World. (Skip past the quiz to get right into the meat of the post.)Among other things, Kawasaki gives his brief thoughts on

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What happens when you put together a popular blogging platform, a customizable search experience and a flexible search API? You get a Search Box widget for Blogger, built using the AJAX Search API, and powered by a Linked Custom Search Engine (CSE).Configure this widget on your Blogger blog and you can immediately search not just your blog posts, but across all the link lists/blogrolls you've set

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If you have been reading my articles for a while, you'll already know that I advocate writing online with a personal, but genuine tone of voice. Not a dry, corporate voice. Not a "you're my best buddy" voice. Time and again I have seen the benefits of using an authentic personal tone. But recently I have been seeing more and more emails that take the "instant best buddy" approach. You sign up for

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The social media landscape over the last year or so has changed dramatically. Companies that were once skeptical about tools such as blogs are now blogging or considering starting one. Unfortunately, many companies that do so still have little idea of how to grow their blog into an integral part of their marketing efforts. However, every company can take some easy step to grow its blog. Many

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For many businesspeople, e-mail is the primary form of communication with clients, colleagues, and even the big boss. And it’s been this way for years. So why do so many folks commit so many violations of e-mail etiquette? Publisher Michael Hyatt outlines 18 rules you should follow–and I agree with almost all of them. For example:Don’t “copy up” as a means of coercion. It’s one thing to copy

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The iPhone can now be unlocked without having to relate to AT&T at all. This is possible by running an application that you can find here, if it might be of interest to anyone.The information has been posted on Jon Lech Johansen's blog on the third of July. His solution means that the iPhone can now be made available for anyone without having to complywith AT&T's terms for using the phone. The

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Google Earth is an interesting tool for looking at various places in the world that you haven't visited yet. It's true that some pictures are clearer than others, depending on the country and frankly, nobody would expect to see a picture of a village in Somalia as clear as the one of the Eiffel Tower.But nobody would expect to see what a policy analyst discovered one day while making his regular

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Social networking sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.com encourage members to meet new people, share pictures and information, and interact with others in online communities.However, while social networking sites present many opportunities for members to connect with others on both a personal and business level, they also expose users to people who may have bad intentions, including identity

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Before I wrote "Six Ways to Avoid Identity Theft" last November, I was always careful to do the typical things you hear about to avoid becoming a victim. I bought a paper shredder, I didn't throw away my receipts, and so on.After learning that there were 9 million cases of identity theft in 2006, which resulted in an average loss of $6,383 per victim, I realized that there was still a lot more I

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Because the phishing attempts are tending to become more and more popular, the Internet companies are forced to create powerful solutions to protect their customers. As Yahoo offers a considerable number of accounts compatible with most of its products, the Sunnyvale giant rolled out a special function that helps the users personalize the log-in page. Yahoo now allows the consumers to create a

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The popular Yahoo Messengeris currently affected by several phishing attempts that are trying tolure users to disclose their private information. The malicious actionsare conducted extreme easy and are based on anavalanche of messages sent to the users connected to the network.Basically, the phishing attackers need only one infected computer tostart the offensive because, after it is

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The European Union made its debut on the popular videoservice YouTube by uploading a "soft porn" clip to promote the Europeancinema. The video, currently with 283.770 views and 559 users who ratedit as favorite, shows several sex scenes from multiple European movies.Under the title "Film lovers will love this!", the clip brings anothertype of videos on YouTube, the video sharing service that is

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The spy panties may sound like something out of a bad spy movie,but it's actually as real as they come. You can now track yourgirlfriend/wife wherever she goes and even know if she's cheating onyou, without her knowing about it.If you're the jealous type, or just paranoid, you can keep track ofyour woman using the spy panties, a thing – I don't know if I can callit a device, or a gadget – that

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Apple 's highly touted iPhone "all but sold out" its initial shipment in both Apple and AT&T stores after just three days of sales, the companies said Monday.Neither Apple nor AT&T disclosed precise sales figures. Tech andtelecom analysts estimated sales of 500,000 to 700,000 units of thecombination phone, iPod and pocket Internet device by Sunday. "It's a phenomenal start," said Gene

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The official Microsoft U.K. Domain was attacked and defaced by a hacker identified as rEmOtEr. Microsoft confirmed that the hack has been successful. rEmOtEr altered a webpage in the Microsoft.co.uk domain with two images and multiple references to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The U.K. branch of the Redmond company managed to fix the problem, and the functionality of the website is back to normal

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Boingo—the hot spot aggregator that sells you wireless service in airports and hotels around the globe—announced a new plan yesterday. For just under $40 a month, they’re selling unlimited access to their hot spots around the world. While that’s not exactly cheap, it comes as welcome news to frequent business travelers who are tired of getting charged close to $20 a pop just for logging on at

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The Consumerist suggests six ways to get out of your current cell-phone contract so you can buy an iPhone. Five of them are pretty ludicrous (e.g., “die” and “join the armed forces”), but there’s one that makes sense: Sell the contract. Normally, breaking a contract early results in a hefty termination fee, but these three services give you a much more affordable out:CellSwapper: Free to post.

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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, whoopposes legalizing marijuana, doesn't mind the drug being used incooking, a newspaper reported on Wednesday."It's alright to useit as a food seasoning, but it should not be fully legalized," Kallawas quoted as saying by the Jakarta Post daily.Kalla wascommenting on a recent study by two Indonesian agencies dealing withdrug abuse that

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When Google Earth launched two years ago, it was fun to see that many people around the world used it to fly to their homes, navigate around their neighborhoods, and explore the planet. But when, in September 2005, it was used to rescue stranded victims in the aftermath of Katrina, we realized that Google Earth had the potential to be a significant tool beyond personal exploration. We began to

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Give Steve Jobscredit: He's managed to get the entire tech community--and much of therest of the world--talking about a pricey gadget that only a handfulhave seen or touched.Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )iPhone finally goes on sale June 29, and for many potential buyers, theonly issue is whether they'll be able to get their hands on one, asit's certain to

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E-mail has revolutionized the way we communicate and work today. For most of us, the ease with which we can communicate with others far outweighs any disadvantages—having to deal with unsolicited mail, for example—that e-mail might have. It can be an excellent tool for improving efficiency, or it can be a waste of valuable time, depending on how you manage it. Statistics indicate that office

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The immediacy with which e-mail has enabled people around the world to communicate with each other has great advantages—but also some real disadvantages. When we have little time to spare, we often feel under pressure to reply to e-mails as soon as they arrive in our inboxes, and this can result in all sorts of problems.This checklist will help you deal with difficult situations that have been

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You've gotta be someone special to get an iPhone early. How special? You have to either be Walt Mossberg or David Pogue, of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times,respectively. So while the rest of us writers wait like baby birds formommy to come back to the nest with a little bit of pre-chewed worm inthe form of a reviewable iPhone, we get to see what the big guns haveto say about the

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Many Web sites offer a resource library for visitors—an area filled with articles covering relevant topics to the industry with which the site is connected. The articles may cover how to do something, or they may define an aspect of the industry, but they do not usually directly sell the company's products or services. Benefits of a Resource LibraryWhile it's true that a resource library, on the

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E-mail has the same legal status as a letter. While e-mail is indispensable at work, it can also be the source of serious problems. If you are too casual using e-mail and harm someone’s reputation, cause offence, or spread a computer virus, you could face disciplinary action and possibly legal charges.Most companies know the risks inherent in e-mail and disseminate guidelines about acceptable

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Yahoo has chosen to close their photos service on September 20, 2007. This means that by the end of the said date if you are not able to either transfer your photos to some selected photos hosting website or order an archive CD of your photos from them, you stand to loose all your photos.I can see that Yahoo is no longer able to host photos for free. I perceived this when Yahoo bought over

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AT&T is the exclusive iPhone carrier for the United States, which means you can expect every AT&T store in the country to overflow with customers at 6:00 PM local time on June 29. Demand is expected to be so high that AT&T stores reportedly will close shop for about two hours before the 6:00 PM launch, installing iPhone displays and roped queues to handle the anticipated lines. But earnings

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Since Vista’s release, I’ve had mixed success in getting Vista Media Center working the way I want it to. Driver problems, codec compatibility…it’s not been the easiest road. And considering that XP MCE 2005 is such a stable and mature product, it was generally much easier just to stick with that.However, the situation has improved and Vista MCE is looking much more healthy. However, there’s one

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Forget the clicker: A new technology inJapan could let you control electronic devices without lifting afinger simply by reading brain activity. The " brain -machine interface" developed by Hitachi Inc.analyzes slight changes in the brain 's blood flow and translatesbrain motion into electric signals. A cap connects by optical fibers to a mapping device, whichlinks, in turn, to a toy train

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PocketMac Remote turns the Apple remote—normally reserved for iTunes/Front Row use—into a useful business tool: It reconfigures the remote’s play/pause, volume, and forward/back buttons to control Apple Keynote or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. Now you can “work the room” while presenting your sales report or profit model, instead of staying tethered to your Mac’s keyboard. PocketMac Remote

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Funny how PDAs, phones, and other gadgets always seem to find their way into toilets, washing machines, and other watery graves. Fortunately, going for an unintended swim doesn’t always mean the end of the road for electronic gear. Consider the Washington Post writer who recently revived a commode-dunked BlackBerry by putting it to bed in a bowl of uncooked rice (which, in theory, magically

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More and more businesses are relying on YouTube to share video: Realtors show clips of their properties, developers show product demos, and so on. Now you can edit and gussy-up those videos using YouTube Remixer, a free tool powered by Adobe Premiere Express.All you do is choose a video you’ve uploaded to YouTube, then click the Remix Video button. From there you can trim your video and add

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You don't have to spend a pile of money to give your system some ofthe cutting-edge features of superfast gaming and graphics PCs costing$5000 or more. A few frugal upgrades can bring your PC's performance toa new level. For starters, you can get a no-cost speedboost by racing the clock--no, not on a quarter-mile track, on yourmotherboard. Overclocking boosts performance by pushing the CPU and

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There is a great video over at PC Pitstopthat highlights why more users should be on the Mac. Apart from theobvious reasons like Macs look better, and come with a more reliableand secure OS, the video points out that most 'brand name' PCs arefilled to the brim with junk software -- Bloatware -- that degrades the performance of the PC and makes it harder to use. If you've got a friend who is

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The high priests of free software havecongregated at Google headquarters this week to debate the future ofthe movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft.Leading names of Linux, the world's biggest grassroots softwarephenomenon, are spending three days debating whether an increasinglycommercial open-source community should fight or ignore the world'slargest

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Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Friday said a complaintlodged by Google was "baseless," as the software company was complyingwith a 2002 antitrust settlement. In a complaint filedwith the Department of Justice in December, Google said a feature builtinto Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system that allows users tosearch a computer's hard drive did not leave room for competition

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After attending the keynote address of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference today, I downloaded the public beta of the Apple Safari 3 Web browser both for Mac OS X 10.4.9 and Windows XP. (It also runs on Vista.) Itruns reasonably well, although its features aren't drasticallydifferent from what's already available with Firefox 2 and InternetExplorer 7. If you run Safari on a Mac, however,

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Microsoft has released the beta of a tool that will test business PCs to see if they are compatible with Windows Vista.Users can download the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 Public Betaonline now. The application helps business users see how much effort itwill take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing thehardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS, andissuing

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Internet search leader Google Inc. is trying to convince federal andstate authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system isstifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for theallegiance of personal computer users.In a 49-page document filed April 18 with the U.S. Justice Departmentand state attorneys general, Google alleged that the latest version ofMicrosoft's Windows

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Is that summer downpour flooding your basement? Did Rover get into the garbage again? Is your 50-inch flat-panel TV still in place? Find out from anywhere by using your PC to create an affordable home surveillance system that you can access over the Internet, or even over your cell phone. A professionally installed surveillance system costs at least $2000, but you can set up an uncomplicated

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Sites That Work the WebAjax and other new Web technologies allow you to do a lot more in your browser today than you could just a couple of years ago. These new Web-based apps (many of them free) promise to make your work life better.Productivity Boosters: ThinkFree Online--a free, ad-supported Web service--delivers sprightly word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications in your

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Laptops. Notebooks. Portables. Whatever you prefer to call them, they've done as much to change our digital lives as any other piece of hardware in the last quarter century. When the first laptops debuted in the early 1980s, they were a major breakthrough in convenience. For the first time you could use a computer that had a built-in keyboard, yet was so light you could pick it up and take it

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