It seems, anymore, that almost everybody has a cell phone, PDA, iPhone, Blackberry or whatever. And while these devices can have Internet access, texting has become the popular choice of communication among many people.
Now, depending on your plan, it may not be feasible to have texting capabilities, because of costs or you just don't want it.
But, just because you don't have texting capabilities, many people do not realize, you can send a text message to someone cell phone as SMS (Short Message Service) using email.read more: How To Send A Text Message To A Cell Phone Using Email
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If you have not heard, Microsoft awesome Sysinternals site has released the beta version of Sysinternals Live. What this service offers is the capability to connect directly to the Sysinternals site and run their tools without the need to download.
If you are not familiar with Sysinternals, they produce some of the best tools, such as Process Explorer, Autoruns and Process Monitor for Windows systems. Microsoft bought the company in 2006 and continued to offer it's extensive library of diagnostic, troubleshooting, and management utilities for free.
Why is this very cool? Because Sysinternals Live allows to you connect and run all their tools with out needing a web browser.
read more: Run Windows Sysinternals Tools Online Using A Mapped Drive
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Do you have a wireless internet connection at home, or at the office? Isn't it great?
With a wireless connection you can move your laptop from room to room and still access the web and your email. But keep in mind that by its very nature, a wireless connection is slower than a wired connection.
Having said that, if you're concerned that your wireless internet speed isn't what it should be, there are things you can try to speed it up
read more: How To Speed Up Your Wireless Internet Connection
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How many times have you searched Google only to have millions of results returned that have nothing to do about what you're searching for? Probably often. After all Google is a computer and almost robot like.
….not really.
Actually Google is pretty smart, especially when you give it a little help with finding exactly what you are searching for. But how do you tell it to find things with words or phrases that have multiple meanings?
read more: How To Tell Google What You Are Searching For When Using Words With Multiple Meanings
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One question I get from new users to Ubuntu is "how do I view my computer name?"
Since most of these people are new to Linux and Ubuntu, or switching from Windows, they want to know how to view their computer name from the desktop, like they can in Windows.
Fortunately Ubuntu is user friendly and this can be easily accomplished from the GUI or at the command prompt.
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By far the most common reason accounts get hacked is that they had easy to remember and simple – sometimes even trivial – passwords.
In other words, the accounts have easy to hack passwords. Passwords like a pet's name, a friend's name spelled backwards, a favorite movie catch phrase, a significant other's name (or "iheart" followed by that name), and so on.
Hackers are extremely resourceful at guessing and ferreting out those all-too-common password schemes. And sometimes it's not even the hackers that end up with your passwords.
Here are seven key steps to keeping an account from being hacked due to simple and common password theft.
read more: 7 Simple Steps to Keeping Your Account From Being Hacked
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One thing is for sure with Windows XP and Vista computers, over time you will have installed many hotfixes and a service pack or two from Windows Update. For many people, you may not have to worry about which updates are being applied to your system
But what if one day, you need to verify if a hotfix has been installed on your computer. One way you can check is to open up Add or Remove Programs from the Control Panel.
As you can see, viewing updates from Add or Remove Programs don't offer much information for each update and is pretty useless. Instead there are better alternatives that provides more useful hotfix and service pack information installed on your system.
read more: How To Display List Of Hotfixes Installed On Your Windows XP Or Vista Computer
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Happy New Year everyone from Watching The Net!
Once again a new year is upon us and it's time to take a few days off and enjoy the holiday. So if you somehow can still read this post after ringing in the new year all night long, there is probably one thing on your mind. How to get rid of that hang-over.
Drink a lots of liquids and watch College football all day!
Happy New Year 2010!
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