Poll of the Week: Which browser is your primary for surfing the web?

Tip of the Week: Watermark to protect your photos online

Digital pictures are so commonplace in our daily lives that they tend to exist in many places.  Uploading your photos to the Internet via photo sharing sites & social media means that those that don't know you personally may gain access to your photos.

In most cases, you can limit who has access to the photos to just those you authorize, but what can you do to reduce the chances of an unauthorized use of a publicly accessible photo?: Watermark them!

Adding copyright information or an obtrusive image on the photo will make it less usable by plagurists and you can "git 'er done" for free at PicMarkr.com 

Headwhack of the Week: Free PDF to Word Converter

The Portable Document File (PDF) format introduced universal formatting for documents that worked on Windows, Mac or Linux systems regardless of what word processing system you used.

PDFs are locked down and can't be modified without special software, so often time folks try to copy portions out of the document and paste them into a Word document, which is a big pain.

To avert this headwhack, download the FREE PDF to Word Converter from HelloPDF.com

Geek Speak of the Week: Dweet 

1) A Twitter tweet sent when drunk. A drunk tweet.

2) A Twitter tweet sent while on a date. A date tweet.

Security: 4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack

Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours.

News: Bracing for malware attacks from embedded fonts

Heads up to all Microsoft Windows users: If you're running Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, stop what you're doing and immediately download and apply the MS09-065 update released earlier this week.

News: 7 simple rules for buying a point & shoot digital camera

Deciding to buy a point-and-shoot camera is the simple part, but with hundreds of models to choose from, selecting the best model for your needs and budget is no easy feat. Following PCMag.com's seven rules will help bring your perfect point and shooter into focus.

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Top 5 tech shopping 'Gotchas'  

It's the holiday tech shopping season again and time for retailers and manufacturers to pull out their bag of tricks to present to consumers.  See our top 5 for this year on this week' segment.

Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com!  You can watch us live AT OUR NEW TIME every Wednesday afternoon at 2:30PM Pacific, 5:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at  CNN.com/video.

Opinion:   Google can be your alibi   

Wrongly accused? Got no alibi? If you turn on a new feature in Google Latitude it lets you retrace your footsteps - complete with timestamps. The fact that you can now re-play your life is a bit creepy, but it's your choice if you want to enable it or not.

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Weekly Advice Column: Beating tech retail gimmicks  

The column that spawned this week's CNN.com segment and the topic for this week's radio show...beating the retailers at their own game will save you money and heartache.

This Week's Show: Holiday Tech purchasing 'Gotchas'

The holiday season accounts for a large percentage of the revenue for retailers and manufacturers and doing whatever it takes to make sales is the order of the day.

Gimmicks and confusing offers are very common this time of year and not understanding the details is what they count on!

In virtually every category of technology, the primary yardstick for most consumers is price and the retailers & manufacturers prey on those that only look at the price.

Listen in as the Data Doctors expose the most common retailing tricks that you will be confronted with this holiday season.

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