Poll of the Week: How much of the mail you get every day is spam?

Tip of the Week: Temporary e-mail addresses

There are times when you are surfing the Internet that you want to gain access to a resource that requires a valid e-mail address. If you give them your real e-mail address, you take the risk of getting some additional junk mail.

But if you don't use a real e-mail address, you can't get the confirmtion message that provides access to what you want.  In those cases, a valid temporary e-mail address would be handy so give Mailinator a try (don't use this for newsletters or anything that you actually want to get over the long term)

Headwhack of the Week: BugMeNot

BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times).

Geek Speak of the Week: E-mail Bankruptcy

Similar to a financial bankruptcy, e-mail bankruptcy involves writing off the losses (in your Inbox) and starting over. A variation is to collect the e-mail addresses of the unanswered messages in your Inbox before deleting everything and sending out a mass message 'declaring e-mail bankruptcy' and telling everyone to resend the important stuff.

Security: Adobe PDF attack updates

Here's a quick update to the Adobe PDF Reader/Acrobat zero-day story that broke this week after the company confirmed that an unpatched vulnerabilities was being attacked in the wild.

News: Military Could Use iPhones in Wars

What if the iPhone could be used in war? True, it's primarily a consumer product, but it's versatile and always connected to the internet (assuming you have network reception) - so why not?

News: Microsoft help desk less busy after Windows 7

There are many ways to measure how Windows 7 is doing. There are reports on new PC sales, tallies of boxed copy sales, and surveys of planned enterprise adoption, to name a few. 

But one of the most encouraging signs for Microsoft is the lack of phone calls it is getting from people with problems. Overall, Microsoft said the volume of calls to its support lines is half of what it expected.

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Time to upgrade?

When your computer is running slow, how do you know if it's time to upgrade or replace it?  Watch this week's CNN.com's video segment to see what we suggest you do!

Opinion:  Top 10 Google Phone rumors

Last Saturday Google announced on its mobile blog that it was handing out a mysterious new phone to select employees across the globe. Calling it a "mobile lab", the device runs Android and enables experimentation with new mobile features and capabilities.

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Weekly Advice Column: Why some Google searches can't be trusted 

The next time you search for any information on a breaking story in Google, you may just want to think twice before clicking on some of the links...learn why here.

This Week's Show: SEO Poisoning & how to avoid it

Once upon a time, when citizens of the Internet wanted to find something, they went to a search engine (usually Google), typed in a search phrase and were presented with lots of websites to visit.

These results were trustworthy and led us to the promise land, but not anymore.

Something known as 'SEO Poisoning' has made clicking on Google search results somewhat hazardous.

What is SEO Poisoning? What will it do to your computer if you fall victim? What can you do to detect or avoid these scams?

Listen in as the Data Doctors get you up to speed on this fast growing exploit that is infecting millions of unsuspecting Internet surfers.

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