Posted on March 16th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
We have seen several marketing surveys that find more than 70 percent of those polled are concerned about personal security and interested in surveillance products. In short, they’re looking at you, kid, or they’d like to be.
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Posted on March 15th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
You can set up video surveillance for as little as $70 using a simple webcam of the type many people perch on their monitors for video calls.
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Posted on March 14th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
This little $25 gadget lets you use a drive from an old or discarded computer that no longer works.
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Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
Some Web sites are so malicious that you only have to view them to be attacked. You won’t feel a thing. You’ll be whisked to a phony Web site that looks just like the real thing.
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Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
We’re big fans of “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” the radio show from National Public Radio. But we often forget to turn it on. Solution: Record the podcast from the Internet.
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Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
If you can connect to the Internet, whether high-speed or dial-up, you can get your own Web site and a new e-mail address for just $10 a year from a service called InstantName.com.
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Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
If a program is not immediately compatible with Vista, a little window pops up asking if you want to run this program in “compatibility mode.”
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Posted on March 8th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting short article recently about the number of Blackberry PDA users who are addicted to playing the “Brick Breaker” game that comes with the little handheld.
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Posted on March 7th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
81Nassau.com/apnews brings up a map of the United States showing the locations for recent news stories from the Associated Press. Classes. DuctTapeGuys.com do amazing things with duct tape.
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Posted on March 7th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach
There’s an interesting series of how-to books from McGraw-Hill (mhprofessional.com) and CNET (cnet.com). Topics covered include: iPods, Macs, laptops, Windows Vista and camera and music phones. Each book in this “Do-It-Yourself” series covers tips and do-it-yourself projects for that particular subject, and that’s exactly where the fun is.
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