Monday, 20 September 2010

What to Do When You Lose Your Tech Gear

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September 20, 2010
Weekly Brief
What to Do When You Lose Your Tech Gear When your cell phone, laptop, or other gear goes missing, these essential tips will improve your odds of recovering it--or ensure that the lost item won't come back to haunt you.
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta: UI Smackdown Internet Explorer 9 Beta looks good, but how does it compare with its browser rivals Google Chrome and Firefox?
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Five Reasons to Ignore the Galaxy Tab and Get the iPad There are a number of features and functions that make the Samsung Galaxy Tab a compelling challenger, but there are still a handful of factors that make the Apple iPad the better choice.
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Apple iPad: The Low-Price Leader? The price for the iPad should compare favorably with those for Android tablets with long-term 3G contracts.
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How-To
Viral Video: A DIY Guide Want 15 minutes of fame? Try 90 seconds. Here are the essential components of a great viral video, regardless of length.
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Create Unique Word Art with Wordle Fun with words! The free Wordle Web site generates stylish, colorful word clouds.
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How to Make the Leap to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure When the VDI server maintains a virtual machine for every desktop user, a more PC-like experience results--but weigh your choices carefully before you start.
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Downloads
PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: August 2010 August is a good month for get-togethers, and for getting things together. PCWorld's reviewers felt the lure of file management utilities, PIMs, and spam blockers. One-trick ponies with one really slick trick--checking Gmail, converting files, or alerting us to Google's ever-vigilant eye--also impressed us. As always, we'd love to see your take on these programs in their User Reviews.
DesktopOK (32-bit version) You get your desktop just the way you like it, and then disaster strikes. Some application changes your screen resolution, and when it changes back again, your carefully crafted icon layout is totally messed up. Fortunately, DesktopO lets you save and restore icon layouts.
Gridy Gridy gives your program and other windows marching orders and makes them line up on an invisible desktop grid. The small, simple utility runs from the system tray and includes a few other features, such as making a specific window transparent or removing it from the alt-tab list of open programs.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: August 2010August is a good month for get-togethers, and for getting things together. PCWorld's reviewers felt the lure of file management utilities, PIMs, and spam blockers. One-trick ponies with one really slick trick--checking Gmail, converting files, or alerting us to Google's ever-vigilant eye--also impressed us. As always, we'd love to see your take on these programs in their User Reviews.
Freemake Video Converter   3870 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under File Converters
Easily convert between many popular video file formats.
Google Alarm   2798 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Browsers & Clients
Find out whenever information is sent to Google servers from your PC.
CintaNotes Free Personal Notes Manager   1240 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under PIMs
This free personal notes manager has text clipping and as-you-type searching.
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