Weekly Newsletter

  • Tip of the Week: Windows 7 'GodMode'
  • Headwhack of the Week: My music library is a mess!
  • Geek Speak of the Week: Hashtag
  • Security: Google's internal spy system was Chinese hacker target 
  • News: Mobile donations to Haiti exceed all in 2009
  • News: Facebook Fugitive's 15 Minutes are Finished 
  • Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Creating PDF files 
  • Opinion: Who Will be the Decade's Tech Titans?
  • Weekly Advice Column: Tips for buying computer LCDs 
  • This Week's Show:  No show - GO CARDS! 

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         Poll of the Week:  What type of computer monitor are you using? 

Tip of the Week: Windows 7 'GodMode'

Although its name suggests perhaps even grander capabilities, Windows enthusiasts are excited over the discovery of a hidden "GodMode" feature that lets users access all of the operating system's control panels from within a single folder. Get up to speed here!

Headwhack of the Week: My music library is a mess!

The programs that we typically use to burn CDs & play MP3s don't excel in the area of managing large libraries of music files.  If you are like most folks, you have slowly amassed lots of music files that may or may not have been organized all that well, created lots of duplicates and are missing track/album info or album art.

If you are in this camp and would like a tool that is suited to task of getting your music library cleaned up, checkout MediaMonkey!

 

Geek Speak of the Week: Hashtag

An organizational tool developed in the Twitter community that allows 'tweets' to be grouped by topic.  Hashtags in Twitter have the hash or pound symbol (#) in front of the topic, which makes searching for information on a popular topic much easier.

Security: Google's internal spy system was Chinese hacker target(FAQ)

Google's decision Tuesday to risk walking away from the world's largest Internet market may have come as a shock, but security experts see it as the most public admission of a top IT problem for U.S. companies: ongoing corporate espionage originating from China

News: Mobile donations to Haiti exceed all in 2009

Keep Since tweets such as "Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief" went viral Wednesday, more than $8 million has been donated--about double the amount donated to all charities via text messaging throughout all of 2009, a Red Cross spokeswoman tells CNN.

News: Facebook Fugitive's 15 Minutes are Finished (what an idiot!)

Usually when convicts escape from prison, they go into hiding, maintain a low profile, and try to disappear from the public eye. Others, like Craig "Lazie" Lynch, cannot resist the tug of fame and make public spectacles of themselves, flaunting their "brilliance" by taunting police. And then they get caught.

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Creating PDF files

There are lots of reasons to consider using your scanner to get important documents or owners manuals into your computer in the universal PDF file format.

Get our overview and Rx on getting your important loose papers digitized and organized here.

Read the advice column with the links to the resources here!

Opinion:  Who Will be the Decade's Tech Titans?

Tim Bajarin of PCMag.com says "It's a safe bet to include Google and Apple in this list, but the others are anyone's guess."

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Weekly Advice Column: Tips for buying computer LCDs

Buying a new LCD display these days can get pretty difficult when faced with all the techno-babble specs and terms that get thrown our way during the shopping process.  If you want the basics of what to consider when buying today's sophisticated computer displays, check out this week's advice column.

This Week's Show: No show - GO CARDS!

Due to the spectacular finish by the Arizona Cardinals in last week's NFC playoff game, they take on the Saints in New Orleans this week, which means we get a well deserved break from our radio show duties (we aren't sure what to do with two days off in a row!)

But if you really need your Computer Corner fix, you can always go back in our archives and choose any of our hundreds of audio replays dating back to Dec of 2002!

We'll be back next week with our bi-annual Technology Recycle event and get back to answering all your technology questions!

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