ATTN: Small Business Owners (or anyone you know that owns or operates a small business)!

Join us for a FREE Social Media 101 workshop on Aug 28th (8-10AM) to get up to speed on how to use all of the free tools to help promote your business. 
Register here!

Tip of the Week: Firefox Plugin Checker

Firefox is an amazing browser for a multitude of reasons, but one of the best reasons to use it is for the huge library of 'plugins' that are available. 

When you use plugins, you always want to make sure you have the latest updates, so rather than visiting each plugin page at a time, all you have to do is visit http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck once a month to make sure all your plugins are up-to-date!

Headwhack of the Week: See Image Previews in Craigslist

We love Craigslist, but does the site have to be so user-unfriendly? 

Would it kill Craig (or whoever's in charge these days) to offer some kind of image preview in the listings? As it stands, you have to click through every single item to see whatever photos lie beneath.

To paraphrase a popular slogan, there's a Firefox add-on for that.

Geek Speak of the Week:  Mashup

The combination of two or more music tracks that creates a entirely new song. Often times, the vocals of one song are overlayed on the music of another song to create a mashup! Some of the top music mashups can be heard at http://www.mashup-charts.com

Security: Microsoft debuts beta of new Security Essentials

For those looking for a free Antivirus program, we highly recommend Microsoft's Security Essentials and now it's even better.  Microsoft released a beta of the new version of its Security Essentials antimalware software on Tuesday, sporting a few changes and enhancements.

News:  10 Common Errors "Spell Check" Won't Catch

While we can rely on a spell checker to catch glaring errors, a computer can't pick up on all careless mistakes, especially if the word could be correct in a different context.  See 10 common errors it won't likely catch.

News: FacePAD: Download your friends FB albums

FacePAD, better known as the Facebook Photo Album Downloader will allow you to download your friends' entire Facebook albums with a click of a button.

Data Doctors Video:  Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure

We all fear the loss of data on our computers from some sort of event that is out of our control, but when you hard drive suffers a catastrophic failure, the actual magnetic media that held your data is reduced to dust.

See what it looks like with this week's video from our Data Recovery labs.

Mobile App of the Week: GateGuru

Traveling via air, requires that we suffer the pain of airports.  A painful experience can be made more painful if we are stuck because of a delay or have a long layover.

Wouldn't it be nice to know where the good food, shopping and services that others recommend are in the airport that you're stuck in?  Look no further than GateGuru!

 

Weekly Advice Column: Tethering vs Hotspot  

Smartphones have become the Swiss-Army knife of the technology world and one of the most important developments in these handy devices is the ability to use them as a gateway for a computer but which is better: tethering or mobile hotspots?

This Week's Show:  Technology that helps you ROCK!

ATTN: Frustrated Musicians! This week's show is just for you!

Technology in the world of music continues to advance allowing anyone with a little time & patience to lay down just about any kind of audio content they desire.

Even if you don't play an instrument, there is technology that allows you to make sweet music!

What are the latest possibilities for creating, transferring and mastering your audio dreams?

Listen in as the Data Doctors with special guests from the Jake Allen Band discuss the tools of the trade from free to pro that you can use to record your own podcast, create your own mash-ups and "mix tapes" or take you from wanna-be to rock star with ease!

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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