- Windows Registry Guide
Windows Registry errors can cause serious problems requiring the reinstallation of your operating system and possible loss of data. Use the Windows Registry Editor and the following directions at your own risk.
- How to Protect Your Computer from Spyware and Adware
Without help, you have no way to prevent adware or spyware. Old antivirus programs don't even prevent adware, since they didn't consider them viruses or worms.
- Balancing in the Blogosphere
October 16, 2004
Well, you might have known these facts if I had my own personal Web log, or "blog." Or at least my own lame blog. For bad blogs are clogging bandwidth these days more than e-mails offering us a glimpse of what Paris Hilton does in those private, scantily clad, videotaped moments.
- Sun Lights up Java Desktop on x86
October 16, 2004
Sun Microsystems has taken the wraps off a new version of its Java Desktop System (JDS) running on its Solaris OS.
- McAfee Adds Managed E-Mail Protection
October 15, 2004
The Santa Clara, California, company plans to launch McAfee Managed Mail Protection, an integrated antispam, antivirus, and content filtering service for inbound and outbound e-mail, McAfee says in a statement.
- Windows XP SP2 Goes International
September 15, 2004
Unfazed by distribution hiccups and noisy security skeptics, Microsoft is moving full steam ahead with the international rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2).
- SpinRite 6 to the Rescue
September 15, 2004
So your hard drive bit the dust before you got around to creating that backup you've been putting off for, oh, a year or so? Download a copy of Gibson Research's SpinRite 6 drive recovery and maintenance software, and it might be able to bring your data back from the brink.
- The GIMP 2.0 - a good image editor from open source
September 8, 2004
GIMP—its name stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program—was first released by two Berkeley students in 1996. Since then, this free open-source program has matured into a powerful image editor.
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| Hardware Technology |
- PowerBook G4s
Apple’s PowerBook product planners faced a dilemma during the past year: With the G5 processor still too hot for laptops, and no new blockbuster technologies available to add, how could they breathe some vitality into a PowerBook line that’s now more than two years.
- Supercomputers race to predict storms
October 11, 2004
Thousands of miles from the rain and wind of Hurricane Ivan, a model of the storm swirls in the memory and processors of a supercomputer that predicts its likely course and strength.
- Microsoft radio venture gives DJs pause
October 11, 2004
Fans of the Seattle music pop station Kiss 106.1 FM usually have to sit through an array of disc-jockey antics and advertising between listening to favorite artists like Avril Levigne and Ashlee Simpson.
- HP's IPaq Hx4705 Trades Taps for Touches
October 9, 2004
In the notebook PC realm, there have long been two camps on the issue of input devices: Those who prefer the joysticks made famous by IBM's ThinkPads, and those who like touchpads. People tend to have strong opinions on the matter.
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- Legal Music Downloads: Top Music Download sites
Enter music downloads of the legal kind. Disregarding the small number of ‘free’ legal music available for promotional purposes, more and more artists and labels have begun to provide a pay-per-download music service.
- Bill imposes hefty 'spyware' fines
October 11, 2004
Companies and others that secretly install "spyware" programs on people's computers to quietly monitor their Internet activities would face hefty federal fines under a bill the House passed Tuesday.
- U.S. files first suit against Internet 'spy ware'
October 11, 2004
The U.S. government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt to crack down on Internet "spy ware" that seizes control of a user's computer without permission.
- Microsoft sues more spammers
September 26, 2004
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. filed nine new lawsuits against spammers who send unsolicited e-mail, including an e-mail marketing Web hosting company, the world's largest software maker said on Thursday.
- Intel ponders Internet's future
September 13, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. outlined its vision of the Internet of the future, one in which millions of computer servers would analyze and direct network traffic to make the Web safer and more efficient.
- Army logistics staff finally gets a satellite network
September 8, 2004
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — Soldiers at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., tested a mobile satellite network called Combat Service Support — Very Small Aperture Terminal (CSS VSAT).
- Schools of all sizes are finding that Wi-Fi has risks and rewards
September 8, 2004
It was barely a generation ago that only the toniest universities had a "computer lab" -- usually a bank of IBM XTs and a dot-matrix printer. That schools and technology have come a long way together is evinced by the growing presence of wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access--a perk that's currently most prevalent in colleges and universities, but that's slowly making inroads toward the K-12 realm as well.
- Routers Versus Switches
September 8, 2004
In this article, we examine a potential customer who is looking to fulfill TCP/IP networking needs. Is your installer or salesperson going to have the technological horsepower to engage and satisfy the customer’s needs?
- Wireless networking
September 6, 2004
Often, we think of productivity enhancement in terms of saving big chunks of time. But there's also value in accruing productivity in small but frequent pieces. How? Through wireless networking, or Wi-Fi.
- Broadband Use: Growing or Not?
September 6, 2004
Depending on who you ask today, broadband usage is either slowing or it is still growing and has hit a critical mass of more than 50 percent of users.
- Linksys, Netgear to Offer VoIP at Home
September 6, 2004
Home routers have long been only useful to computers, acting as a "splitter" for the broadband connection (DSL or cable modem) so it can be shared by all the PCs. Soon, however, you'll be able to plug in your phone and use that same broadband connection to make cheap phone calls.
- Unstuffing the Overstuffed Inbox
September 5, 2004
I prefer to hold onto things, though don't mislabel me as a packrat. While I do maintain a collection of cherished items that I refuse to toss, those select items are few and take up little space.
- VoIP: Finally Worth a Look
September 4, 2004
Hundreds of thousands of consumers collectively save millions of dollars each month by replacing their traditional telephone service with personal voice over IP (VoIP) telephony.
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