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Tip of the Week: The world's cheapest tripod for your camera
Digital cameras have allowed us to take pictures of anything and everything with reckless abandon, but even though we can take as many pictures of the same thing as we want, most of us can't seem to hold still!
Digital cameras don't respond the same as traditional film cameras, so many don't know exactly when the picture is being taken. A tripod is the best way to ensure that the camera is still at the moment the picture is taken, but who wants to lug a tripod around everywhere they go? From now on, you can carry the world's cheapest tripod everywhere you go and take better pictures!
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Headwhack of the Week: I have too many IM clients!
For those that have found themselves communicating with their friends via Instant Messaging, most find that they are installing programs for each of the messaging networks. AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber are all popular messaging systems that each have their own IM client that you would generally have to install if you wanted to be able communicate with all of your friends.
Add the popularity of Social Networking and of course good ole' e-mail and you are up to your eyeballs in communication programs. If you've been searching for a better way to stay in touch without overloading your computer with a billion programs, might we suggest that you take a look at Digsby?
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Geek Speak of the Week: DYJGTIY
Stand for: Did You Just Get The Internet Yesterday? Used in various text-based communication to suggest that you're clueless about technology.
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Security: Spear-phishing Attacks Have Hooked 15,000
Two groups of criminals have stolen data from an estimated 15,000 victims over the past 15 months, using targeted "spear-phishing" e-mail attacks, according to researchers at Verisign.
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News: Google lets users test new Gmail features
Google is testing 13 new features for Gmail and they opened up the testing to anyone that wants to give their two cents on the new features!
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News: The 10 Cheesiest Computer Mice
Get out the cheese, because the latest crop of computer mice is cornier than ever before: PC Magazine found a disco ball mouse, a mouse you control with your feet, and even—yes—a cheeseburger mouse.
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Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Fixing your Photos
Summer is here and that generally means that we dust off our digital cameras and take more pictures. Once you take the picture, you can do a multitude of things to edit them that range from super expense and complicated to absolutely free and easy to use. Watch our most recent CNN.com video to learn more!
Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com! You can watch us live every Saturday morning at 9:30AM Pacific, 12:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at CNN.com/video.
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Opinion: I'll Reboot if I Want To!
Lance Ulanoff of PC Magazine says: "Stop telling me not to do a hard reboot. As far as I'm concerned, holding down the power button until my machine shuts off is an inalienable right.
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Weekly Advice Column: Is it Service Pack 3 time yet?
We recently warned folks not to get in a big rush to install the newly posted Service Pack 3 for Windows XP because we wanted to see what kinds of issues were going to arise after a few million guinea pigs installed the update.
But Helen wants to know "How will I know when to install Service Pack 3"?
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This Week's Show: Business Technology Survival Guide
Businesses rely heavily on computers and technology in today's fast paced business world, but a simple oversight in one of the main areas of protection for your business could be very costly.
The expensive cost of computer downtime can be easily avoided with a proactive approach to your business technology. Many of these lessons are applicable to our home networks as well, since most of us have what was considered a business network 5 years ago in our homes.
Listen in as the Data Doctors bring their daily experiences working with businesses and their technology challenges so you can learn from other's pain!
Join us Saturdays from 12:00PM–2:00PM (Pacific) on News 92.3 KTAR or listen LIVE via the Internet at KTAR.com as we discuss your computer questions at: 602.277.5827 or ask your questions during (or before) the broadcast using the ask a question page.
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