When trying to decide which laptop to buy, some choices are easy: weight, size and color.
But then come the tricky bits: processor, RAM, hard drive, graphics card… how do you know what to choose? Which features can you save on, and where should you splurge?
read more: CPU-GPU-RAM-HDD – Computer Terms Explained in Plain English
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If you are planning on using a free online photo album service and digital photo printing for your pictures, there are a few things that you need to know ahead of time to make sure that the results are exactly what you want.
Digital photo printing is just like regular photo processing, but the added advantage is that you can change your photos anyway that you would like, and see how they will look, before you actually get them printed.
Here's what you need to know about optimizing your pictures ahead of time.
read more: How to Optimize Pictures For Digital Photo Printing
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Windows operating systems has always been loaded with many shortcuts that can be used to perform tasks quickly and with less clicks to accomplish those tasks in fewer steps. Some of these shortcuts are well known while others may not be known to the average Windows computer user.
One example is with right click context menus. By right clicking on an object, f older or file, a menu is displayed allowing actions or commands to be executed.
But a lesser known or forgotten trick with right clicking, is to press the SHIFT key that displays extra options that are normally hidden.
read more: Uncover Hidden Commands In Windows Right Click Context Menus
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It's been a while but the RSS Feed on Watching The Net is finally working again. This also includes receiving new article updates by email (which existing RSS email subscribers may have noticed is working today 
read more: RSS Feeds And Email Are Now Working Again On Watching The Net
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Ever have an application that just hangs and never returns to normal or terminate?
So you open up Windows Task Manager, find the application process, right click on it and select End Process.
Nothing happens! The process is still running and the dead application continues to cause high CPU utilization to the point where you can't do much with your computer.
You repeat the process. Nothing again. One more time…that process just won't terminate and die.
Now what?
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"Can someone track a user (name, home address, etc.) simply by having their email or IP address? The reason I ask is my kids play some games online, and these sites sometimes have a chat area, where the players can talk to each other while playing. Can my kids be tracked down in any way?"
Are You Invisible Online?
It's true that your IP address is no secret. It's a basic part of internet communication protocols to send your IP address whenever you connect to another site, request a web page, chat, play an online game, etc. Without your IP address, the computer on the other end wouldn't know where to send the reply.
But that doesn't mean that Evildoers can find your house if they know your IP address. Each time you go online (if you have dialup) or each time you start your computer (if you have cable or dsl) you will be assigned an IP address, randomly selected from a pool of IP's assigned to your Internet service provider (ISP).
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If you have experienced problems using Windows Live Hotmail, such as sorting email into folders or notice some features missing, the most common cause is that you have hit the maximum number of messages allowed or you have exceeded the mailbox size limit.
What ever the case may be, knowing each folder size and the total number of messages in each folder can be a big help in resolving problems as well as cleaning up your Hotmail mailbox.
This means you will also need to know the sizes of not only the folders you have created, but the default folders such as Sent, Deleted, Draft, Junk and inbox.
Here's how to view this information.
read more: How To View Number Of Messages And Sizes Of Folders In Windows Live Hotmail
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Over time, your computer will accumulate numerous items, such as files, folders, applications or programs. While you can easily identify when a folder or file was accessed or modified simply by using Windows Explorers, identifying when applications or programs where last accessed, isn't as easy to find.
Unless you know where to look…
Windows provide an easy way to vew this information, with out needing to install anything by using Add or Remove Programs in XP or with Programs and Features in Vista.
read more: Find Out When You Last Accessed Windows Programs Or Aplications
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