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Computer: Auction Sniper; USB 3 Primer; ESD-Safe Bags; Review: Ubuntu 9.10 v Windows 7; Office 2003 Rights Management Bug Locks up Files 12/11/9; Ironkey Secure Flash Drive; It's a Trap! Atom Corral Is a Major Step Toward Quantum Computing, 7/16/10; How to Speed Up Your Computer; Secret Histories of Those @#$%ing Computer Symbols, 8/16/10; Master Key Protecting Blu-ray Movies Has Leaked, 9/14/10; An Operating System to Run It All, 10/8/10; Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s, 12/2/10; Efficient DNA-Based Computing Could Replace Silicon, 5/17/11; Largest DNA-Based Computer Ever Built Can Calculate Square Roots, 6/3/11; Hands-On With the IBM 5150, Thirty Years Later, 8/12/11; IBM Is Building the Largest Data Storage Array Ever, 120 Petabytes Big, 8/26/11; New software permits mind-reading and mind-over-matter, 10/13/11; You Won't Believe What YOU Can Do With a Photograph, 10/25/11; On Quantum Computing and Quoogling, 11/4/11; How To Convert a Database to Access 2007 Format
Printers: Printer Ink Secret, Revealed!, 9/22/9
Internet: What would happen if the Internet collapsed?; Internet of things blurs the line between bits and atoms - Everything Is Alive, Connected and Reporting, 6/2/11; NFC and the Internet of Things, 6/2/11; A new Internet protocol will vastly increase the number of addresses from which devices can connect, 6/24/11; A Chip to Encrypt the Web, 8/17/11; XXX Domain Goes Public With Flurry of Activity, 12/6/11; Most searched-for word of 2011? Facebook - and 'Facebook login' is number three, 12/23/11; Internet Resources for the International Man, 2/4/12
Browsers: Firefox 8 hits the Web - Enjoy while it lasts, 11/9/11
File Sharing: BitTorrent 6.4 easy online file sharing; Torrent Privacy; BTGuard: Anonymous BitTorrent Services; How To Use Dropbox and TrueCrypt To Securely Transfer Files Privately, 1/6/11; Piracy Rules the Web, Dominating 23.8% of Internet Traffic, 1/31/11
Search Engines: DuckDuckGo; Ixquick; Startpage; Yippy; Context Search Engine Readies Launch, 1/12/11; Correlation Technology FAQs; Beware of online "filter bubbles", 05/11; again
Text Messaging: Text Messaging Abbreviations; How to Send Text Message From Your Computer
Website Development: GoDaddy; 9 Essential Trust Indicators
Website Analysis: SEO Tool – Free Backlink Checker; Google Analytics; Google Adwords; Ranks Webmaster Tools
Windows: XP Secrets; Windows Speed Secrets; Find System Information Using Windows Utility; Nov. 10, 1983: Gates Opens Windows a Bit Early, 11/10/11
GoDaddy: SOPA debate puts GoDaddy in hot water over domain transfers, 12/27/11
Google: GDrive will enable access to personal computer from any internet access; Google is the best way to download mp3s; Google-backed tool detects net filtering, blocking; Google Voice and you: what it is and how you can use it, 8/10/9; Google Goggles Technology; 10 Simple Google Search Tricks, 4/2/10; Google plugs free PC-to-phone calling into e-mail, 8/25/10; New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast, 11/3/10; Google Expands to a New Frontier: The Human Body, 12/17/10; Google Voice takes one more step toward eradicating the traditional phone system, 1/26/11; Hands-On With Google’s New Chromebook, 5/12/11; Google targets Microsoft with launch of Chromebook laptop, 5/12/11; Google Launches Android Classes to Bolster App Development, 12/16/11
YouTube: Making Money from YouTube, 8/19/11; YouTube Preps Launch of New TV-Like Channels, 9/27/11
Security: Local Shared Objects - "Flash Cookies"; What Your PC Knows About You, 9/2/10; Searching For News Is Riskier Than Searching For Porn, Study Says, 11/11/10; Can you trust your antivirus solution to protect you against governmental backdoors and "lawful interception" police Trojans?, 10/8/11
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Best Free Downloads, Sites, & Services: OpenOffice.org; OpenOffice 3.2 MS Office alternative; PCWorld, 2/2810
Antivirus Utilities: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0; TrendMicro HouseCall 7.1
Antispyware Utilities: Ad-Aware; SUPERAntiSpyware
Audio Apps and Services: Audacity records and edits sound; AudioTag song identifier; Myna advanced audio editing; mp3gain
File Management: Batch File Renamer
Image Editing: GIMP
Malicious File Removal: Combofix; Malwarebytes Anti-Malware; freefixer
Productivity Tools: Zamzar free online file conversion; pdf to Word converter; DoPDF Free PDF Converter; Text Fixer to alphabetize text; TeraCopy: Copy your files faster and easier; 1001 Free Fonts
Speedtests: 1, 2, 3; Broadband Speed Tests & Networking Diagnostics; 5 Tips to Improve Your Computer Speed
System Utilities: FixWin 1.1 systems resource tune-up; Teracopy fast file copying; File helper (Open .dat files)
Video Tools: VLC media player; again; divx codec to play avi files; YouTube Downloader 2.7
Website Utilities: W3C Markup Validation Service; W3C Link Checker; Find old webpages

Internet Phone: ViaTalk VoIP; Zfone