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Telecommuting Can Help the Planet and Your Sanity
What does telecommuting have to do with global warming? Plenty. Working from home means fewer cars on the road - and that translates into both a smaller carbon footprint and less gridlock on our roads. But it's not just a matter of saving the planet. Employees are often happier and more productive if allowed to telecommute. More »

Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Undelivered E-mail an Offshoot of Spam Prevention
Spam really took off a few years ago and has been increasing ever since. To combat this, many have implemented filtering software that examines each incoming message. If the filter thinks that the message is spam, it prevents it from reaching your inbox. The good guys' software is becoming more error-prone and mis-identifying messages as spam when they really are not. More »

Business :: Technology :: Adobe Tips N Tricks

Fixing Snapshots With Adobe Photoshop
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For all you digital camera users (and film camera users as well), I'm sure you can relate to having taken that one photo of Uncle Kimo or Auntie Leilani that turns out dark and underexposed. You might have had a flash failure or the flash on your point and shoot camera just didn't have the juice to light your subject properly. The family is greatly disappointed when you give them a dark photo with Kimo or Leilani completely unrecognizable.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Repetitive Strain Remains a Pain
Medical technology seems to find a new syndrome, disorder or dysfunction every hour these days. Remember all the press over carpal tunnel syndrome just a few years back? Suddenly it seemed everyone required a myriad of contraptions, braces and therapy to get through the same work they had for years without complaint. The evening news on every channel had either a special report or investigative correspondent inundating us with information. What happened?
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Form a Strategy to Back Up Your Data
It's the first question you are asked any time your PC or server has crashed: Do you have a backup? It seems like such a simple question, but I've found that a lot of people, end-users and IT professionals alike, don't know how to perform a reliable backup. In fact, it's not so much the technical aspects of performing a backup that people don't understand, it's the strategy behind the backup where a lot of people fall short.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Surfing At Work Has a Good Side
Day after day, study after study shows how much time is supposedly wasted surfing the web during work. From financial sites, to sports, even to gambling, millions of Americans admit to visiting web sites that are not related to their jobs. Organizations worldwide are implementing content-filtering mechanisms and developing "acceptable use" policies for the sole purpose of combating this plague.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Internet Misuse Can Be Costly to Employers
By now everyone knows that the public Internet is not always an appropriate place to hang out. In the early days of the World Wide Web my main concern with employee use was focused on discovering and eliminating malicious code such as viruses, worms and other insidious items from files, mail, mail attachments, etc.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Google Is Your Friend
Many times when I get together with colleagues, we like to reminisce about the "good old days" before Al Gore invented the Internet. We like to ask ourselves "how did we do such and such before the Internet?" Well, we called bookies, exchanged jokes around the water cooler, and bought our periodicals in brown paper bags.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Do You Really Need to Take That Laptop?
As many of us who live in the middle of the sea know, business travel sounds glamorous and exciting, unless you actually have to do it for a living. We know the drill, we're road warriors... and no, we're not going to change our name to Road Rainbows or Road Golden Eagles. Pack up your "mainland clothes," and above all, don't forget to set up your laptop. Make sure you've got all the documents you're going to need on your hard drive. Test the remote access to the company network, who knows what's changed since you last went on the road. Be prepared to show off your hardware to every TSA agent you might encounter.
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Spyware is Everywhere, but There Is Hope
It seems as though you can't swing a dead cat without hitting another article about spyware, malware, adware or any of its relatives. The fact of the matter, however, is that the most appropriate term we can use for spyware is "every-ware."
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Business :: Technology :: Business Computing

Take the Time to Protect Your Power Supply
When the lights went out on the mainland not so long ago, I starting thinking how much our digital/wireless wonderland has been fueled by a commodity that we've taken for granted - power from the grid.
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Lifestyle :: Computers :: Tech Tips

The Newer Newspaper
The on-line newspapers are delivered instantaneously as they are written and edited. However, everyone gets the same news pages. But everyone has different interest and likes, so what one person might be interested may not interest others. Once again, through the “magic” of the web, this problem is solved. Everyone can get news or stories that they are interested in. More »

Lifestyle :: Computers :: Explore Web Design

Search Engine Optimization: Topical Relevance
Search Engine Optimization will always remain the most vital website promotion and marketing method. Search Engine algorithms establish which factors determine the sites that obtain top rankings. These algorithms are relentlessly altering which is the reason search engine results are continuously changing. Understanding how search engines work by learning about the fundamental aspects of search engine optimization can give your website the utmost potential for unremitting exposure and high rankings. More »

Lifestyle :: Computers :: The One Minute Geek

Chain E-mails
The internet is full of lies. Just take a look at some of the stuff making it into your inbox. A lot simply aren't true. When you see something that seems a little over the top, take a moment and check its validity before forwarding it to your friends and family. A good place to start is TruthOrFiction.com, where you can check out everything from urban legends to pleas for help. More »

Lifestyle :: Computers :: Internet Safety

In My Own Words - An Internet Predator's Cautionary Story
You've heard all the warnings about the dangers of the Internet. Your parents may have warned you not to chat with strangers and not to give out personal information online. But are the dangers real or just the paranoia of over-protective parents and adults? More »

Lifestyle :: Computers :: Technology In Plain English

Catch a Falling Star and Put it In Your Pocket
Remember that oldie? Well, for this column I'm going to tell you about how you can kinda do a similar thing with a couple programs and a really large capacity flash drive that will easily fit in your pocket! So, with a tip of the fedora to Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance who wrote the song that begins, "Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, Never let it fade away! Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, Save it for a rainy day!" here's how: More »
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