On Computers

Everybody says they could write a book, and quite a few people do. Sometimes one of those books turns out to be a lulu. That’s a book from Lulu.com, we mean.

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SanDisk moves once more into the fray with a new MP3 player that is both beautiful and bountiful. We played with the new Sansa e260 for a couple of days, and this one is a keeper for sure.

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Hola! This is the best approach to learning Spanish we’ve ever found, short of spending time in another country. Joy spent a lot of time with the new Berlitz Spanish Premier program for Windows and Macintosh because, after all, it was her duty. Then she spent a lot more time because it was so much fun.

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Almost all small businesses and many homes have more than one computer now, and they usually want to link them together in some kind of network. Netgear’s new RangeMax Wireless Router WNR854T is the best so far at speed and distance.

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The News: You can use Google for an easy way to see summaries of all your favorite Web sites and blogs. Go to www.google.com/reader and enter the search terms for news you want summarized. The Views: A helpful reader reminded us of a site we found a year ago and then forgot. It’s www.irfanview.com and what it has is a great free program for converting image and multimedia files between formats.

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The new edition of Microsoft Student is out and ready for the start of the new school year.

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The new edition of Microsoft Student is out and ready for the start of the new school year.

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Zillabar.com provides a toolbar for your Web browser that protects you against sites that try to steal your credit card numbers, passwords and other information you want to keep private.

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Our new favorite site for online backup is Mozy.com. It’s free, easy to use and lets you store up to 2 gigabytes.

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1. New surveillance camera: Safe Scout tells you when employees or family come and go.
2. More surveillance cameras: Some let you chat with the people you are monitoring.
3. Internut: photron.com is the place for high-speed photography.

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