IDENTITY THEFT GROWS

If you were worried about things before, wait till you read this. It’s about stalking and other consequences of the new information age.

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SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF

We found a program for making yellow sticky notes on your computer screen.

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ONE SMALL STEP FOR MICROSOFT

Whenever you have a Windows operating problem, you can usually find an answer by going to Microsoft’s own web site: Microsoft.com.The bad news is the answer will often require you to type in a series of commands that are both arcane and difficult to place.

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MOVE IT

Many families and even some small businesses have several different phones and other devices that need a format changing program to transfer videos, photos and music fro m one to another. Nero Software has an automated way to handle this with a new $40 program called “Move it.”

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TIME TO QUICKBOOK YOUR TAXES

Tis the season for accounting programs, and some QuickBook users may be wondering if it’s worth updating to Quickbooks 2009. We had a chat with Bonnie Biafore, author of “Quickbooks 2009, the Missing Manual.”

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INTERNUTS

Gizmine.com has some fun stuff for Valentine’s, like a heart-shaped mouse that says “I love you” when you turn the scroll wheel. They also have heart-shaped glow-in-the-dark lights that float in your bath. But what we liked best was the alarm clock that comes with a toy gun. You have to shoot and kill the alarm three times to turn it off.

VERY LOW COST MEETINGS

A new enhancement to GoToMeeting software makes it possible to include many people, from nearly anywhere in the world, at no charge.

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NOW APPEARING ON YOUR SMARTPHONE

If you’ve ever wanted to print or fax from your Blackberry or smartphone, you can do it under certain conditions, using a service from Cortado.com at a cost of nine dollars a month.

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PEOPLE SEARCH

Ixquick is the fastest people finder we’ve found.

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RETRO HANDSETS

If you long nostalgically for that old telephone feel, Yubz.com has handsets just like the ones on old fashioned landline phones. The handsets even have a coiled phone line. What’s different these days is that the line plugs into a cell phone.

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