Tip of the Week: Supercharge Your Phone: 40 Tips and Tricks

Avoid annoying people, make free phone calls, and manage your life with these 40 tips and tricks to supercharge your smartphone, your 'dumb' phone, and your kitchen phone from PCWorld.com

Headwhack of the Week:Snap Better Cameraphone Pics w/$1 Magnifier 

If you've ever tried taking a close-up photo using your phone's camera, you probably weren't thrilled with the results. Most phones have fixed-focus lenses that don't do well with subjects that aren't at least a few feet away.

The cheap and simple fix? A pocket magnifier, the kind you often find at drugstores next to "cheater" eyeglasses.

Geek Speak of the Week: Double OPT-IN

A two-part subscribe process that requires individuals to complete in order to get their email address added to a list (newsletter, etc.). Designed to prevent abuse of signing users up without their knowledge and considered an industry standard.

Security: Facebook's Dilemma: When Privacy Hits The Fan

User anger against Facebook has been building since last year, when the social networking giant made it more complicated to protect personal information.

Online privacy can be relatively abstract until personal information ends up on somebody else's website.

News: How do you look? Wardrobe advice from strangers 

When Asya Varshisky needed some first-day-of-work fashion advice, she didn't turn to best friends or a roommate, she turned to the Web (and so can you!)

News: Dell's Streak readies for battle with iPad

Have Dell Inc said its five-inch Streak tablet computer (set to debut in Britain next month) can double as a mobile phone and will have a front-facing camera for videoconferencing -- features it hopes will help the new gadget compete against Apple Inc's iPad.

Data Doctors Video: Create powerful but easy to remember passwords 

In our ongoing efforts to educate the world about technology, we are now committed to creating regular content for our Data Doctors YouTube channel.

This week we illustrate a password tip we published in a previous newsletter that will help you create powerful, but easy to remember passwords!

Mobile App of the Week:Epocrates 

This week's featured mobile app is a free mobile drug reference (iPhone, Palm, Windows Mobile & Blackberry) based on a powerful database assembled by healthcare professionals at Epocrates.

Features include drug interaction checkers & calculators as well as a pill ID/pill picture option.        Get it here!

 

Weekly Advice Column: Identifying dangerous attachments

How do you know if a file attachment is dangerous or not? While the blanket advice to never open any file attachments sounds reasonable, it isn't always practical to live by that standard.

Learn some basic red flags as well as alternative to sending files as attachments in the first place in this week's advice column.

This Week's Show: Stop sending e-mail attachments!

Files attached to e-mail messages have long been an effective method of infecting millions of computers by tricking folks into opening attachments with clever social engineering tactics.

But what if everyone stopped sending anything legitimate via e-mail? Wouldn't that allow us all to universally ignore any file attached to an e-mail?

Listen in as the Data Doctors give you lots of alternatives to sending legit files via e-mail so your recipient won't ever have to try to figure out if the attachment is safe or a ticking time bomb!

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