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Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:00 AM

A High Tech Way to Beat Winter Blues

Are you looking for something new and different to do for fun as the winter drags on? My suggestion is Live Search Club. Live Search provides a number of fun word games including Flexicon, a crossword game; Seek-A-Doo, a word search game; and C-Link,
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:00 AM

Using Google Docs? Keep Searching!

With the amount of great press reviews received by Google Docs, an amazing product was anticipated. Google Docs, however, is nowhere near ready to replace the desktop word processor. Using Google Docs feels more like using an old web based e-mail program
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Catch the Buzz with Buzzword

Buzzword, an on-line word processor from Adobe, offers enough advanced features that many users may find it more convenient than other office suite offerings. This program, using the latest version of Flash, provides all of the important features that
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:00 AM

More Office Offerings

 For some reason, it seems that lately office suite applications are suddenly being created by everyone. Some of this may come from the success of the previously reviewed Open Office suite. The success of this platform has shown users are willing
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Monday, October 15, 2007 12:00 AM

Is Leopard Better?

With the release of Leopard less than two weeks away, some people may be wondering whether they should switch to the new operating system. As with all software, Simplicity Force recommends waiting for a thorough review of the release version before making
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:00 AM

An Alternative to Microsoft Office

When most people think of a productivity suite, they think of Microsoft Office. This feature rich program has become the standard for almost all home and business users. There are, however, alternative office suites that may be better for specific users.
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Monday, September 17, 2007 12:00 AM

Apple's Office -- iWork

The new release of the iWork suite offers a good word processor and spreadsheet program along with its main feature, Keynote. Like iLife, reviewed last week, the new iWork suite seems to use a lot of system resources, but does provide useful software
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Monday, September 10, 2007 12:00 AM

iLife '08 Released

Apple receently released a new version of the iLife suite, iLife '08. All applications in the media editing suite were updated, including a completely new iMovie. This software ships free of charge on all new Mac computers and is available to existing
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Monday, July 30, 2007 12:00 AM

Photo Fun on your Mac

Mac owners who have systems with a built-in camera can start having some photo fun right now by snapping a few pictures in their very own Photo Booth. The Photo Booth program currently loaded on computers with the iSight camera allows users to take snapshots
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Removing Backgrounds from Pictures in Office

Often someone will find the perfect picture to use in a Power Point presentation, but it will have a white background. This is fine unless the presentation has a blue background. Today's tip will show an easy way to make any one color in an image transparent
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Monday, July 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Is the Mac OS Really More Secure?

When Microsoft released Vista, one of the big selling points was improved security, and Microsoft still advertises it as the “most secure windows ever.” But what about Mac OS X? Apple claims “Every Mac is secure ... thanks to the proven foundation of
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Green Computing

There are several simple changes environmentally conscious home computer users can make to help reduce energy consumption and the impact of computing on the earth. Simple changes in usage habits and software settings can reap moderate returns. The
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Monday, July 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Take a “Quick Look” with Leopard

One of the new features of Leopard is an application called Quick Look. According to Apple, this application will allow users to preview “nearly every” file type. The application will only allow users to view the document so it should open much more quickly
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Context Specific Menus

Throughout Windows the right mouse button is very useful for providing commands related to what is selected. When an item is right-clicked, a context specific menu appears. For example, in Microsoft Word, if you right click a misspelled word a menu will
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Backup Solution for Windows

As discussed Monday, backing up data is important, but, for a variety of reasons, many users do not do it. The best back-up solution would automatically back-up data to an off-site storage location and cost very little. A solution that meets all of these
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