On Computers

Seventy-eight percent of Web users use a broadband (high-speed) connection. That’s up from 65 percent a year earlier, a Nielsen/NetRatings study reports, and moving toward 100 percent.

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With a Slingbox (Slingbox.com), you can transfer any TV show to a computer that’s connected to the Internet anywhere else in the world.

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With a Slingbox (Slingbox.com), you can transfer any TV show to a computer that’s connected to the Internet anywhere else in the world.

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In the television business they call the people who read you the news “talking heads.” It’s very descriptive. Now you can have your own talking head, an animated cartoon that can be posted to your website.

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ust blink and there’s some new security software out there. This latest one is called Blink and the “personal” version is free from eEye.com.

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AskSam.com and Travelistic.com

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Small businesses that don’t want to spend thousands of dollars for Microsoft’s Exchange Server and tech support can get some of that service for free from Google.com.

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We used to think that people walking by talking to themselves were schizophrenic. But it turns out they were on their cell phones and using some hands-free system. Well, most of them were.

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Joy has discovered a neat free program from Roxio that lets you scroll photos, cartoons or news feeds along the bottom of your Windows PC screen. It’s called Roxio MediaTicker 2.0, and you can get it at Roxio.com.

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Skype, our favorite service for making Internet phone calls, just came up with a $30 calling plan that allows you to make unlimited calls to people who use regular phones and don’t have Skype. That’s $30 for the year, not a month!

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