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The Beginner’s Guide To Choosing a PDA For everyone thinking of buying their first PDA, this guide’s for you! A gentle introduction to these devices should be all you need. PDAs aren’t like other computers – they’re compact, user-friendly, fast, featureful, and even fun! The first thing you have to do is figure [...]
How Your Web Browsing Habits Impact Your Computer’s Security No matter if you’re a home user, running a small business, or adminning for a 10,000-head corporation, web browsing will be the weak spot in your computer system’s defense. Because the number one path of infection for malware continues to be the web browser. These [...]
Getting To Know GPS Technology Once upon a time, this would have sounded like a science-fiction plot: We’re going to put an array of machines up in space orbiting the Earth, and use them to navigate the globe. Such audacity would only have been found in a Jules Verne novel. But today, the [...]
Digital Gadget Gift Ideas For Big Kids When most parents think gadgets for kids, they tend to think like a little kid… which means video games. While it’s true that younger children (age range 5 to 12 years) will be impressed by video games, older kids entering their ‘tween and teen years expect something [...]
An Introduction to Network Monitoring There’s a difference between an intrusion detection system monitor and a network monitor. While an intrusion detection system is responsible for protecting the system from outside threats, a network monitor just watches for internal failure conditions, such as overloaded servers, crashed servers, faulty network connections, and other problems. [...]
A Field Guide to Batteries The first battery was the Baghdad Battery, a simple clay pot with a copper sheet inside which is wrapped around an iron rod. They were discovered in 1936 in the village of Khuyut Rabbou’a, near Baghdad, Iraq, and have been dated to between 250 BC and AD 224. Ancients [...]
Your First Home Office Network “Telecommuting” – it’s the only way to fly! Being able to work from home will change how you think about work. And setting up a home network is easier now than ever. Gone are the days when you had to study wheel vs. ring vs. serial diagrams – network [...]
Things You Can Do With Bluetooth Sunglasses Let us not be shy about it: When you use Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses and eyewear devices, you are officially living in the science fiction era. It’s no joke, you really have joined the era of *Star Trek*. We’re only a holodeck and transporter away from exploring the galaxy [...]
The World Runs On Telemetry “Telemetry” is a word you don’t often hear slung around. It’s also one of those words you hear thrown around by high-tech types, that makes novices put up a defensive palm and back away – “Sorry, I don’t speak computerese!” So what is it, and why might it be [...]
The Top Time Management Tools Time management seems at first to be a modern concept, but really it isn’t. The first step in time management is keeping track of it, and so every time-keeping device going back to the dawn of recorded history is a time management system. Even Stonehedge! Stonehedge was originally built [...]
