Articles, essays, reviews, and editorials about using computers gathered from user group leaders and members all around the world. You are encouraged to submit articles and reviews from your organization.
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$90M Text Spam Suit In an unprecedented ruling, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has announced that publishing giant Simon & Schuster could be on the hook for as much as $90 million for sending unwanted text messages to tens of thousands of people.
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The Dark Side of Social Networking When it comes to social networking, it's not what you know, or even who you know, it's who knows you. ZATZ Publishing, in partnership with FrontLine Security Magazine has released David Gewirtz's latest Special Report, The Dark Side of Social Networking
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iPhone Development Opportunities As the world of iPhone plug-ins continues to expand, it represents viable and lucrative career opportunities for computer savvy developers. EDUmobile has launched an iPhone Online Course to meet the shortage of information resources and training. Candidates earn certification on completion and an option to co-publish their first app on the App Store and keep 80% of the revenues.
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Copyright Fees Changing If you're a publisher, writer, author, artist or other creative who uses copyright in your pursuits then you'll want to take notice of new upcoming U.S. Copyright Office changes. New fees are scheduled to take effect on Aug. 1, 2009.
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Trojan Horses - Fact or Fiction A Trojan Horse is a destructive program that masquerades as a harmless application. Unlike viruses, Trojan Horses do not replicate themselves, but they can be just as destructive -- the most dangerous examples of a Trojan is a program that introduces viruses into your computer. Pass this article along to others, especially those who use Microsoft products or Microsoft operating systems.
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Power Grids at risk At last, some people are beginning to wake up and recognize the real and present danger of cyber attacks on the nation's power grid. Ten times greater risk than the flu, with a thenth of the media coverage. Now, lawmakers are seeking to tighten Cyber Regulation to avoid hacker disruption of critical networks.
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9,000 USBs at the Dry Cleaners 9,000 USBs at the Dry Cleaners -- Data hung out to dry as 9,000 USBs left in Dry Cleaners -- a survey released by Texas based data security experts Credant Technologies is a wake-up call to keep your eye on your stuff!
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Public-Domain Status of Early Sound Recordings A Library of Congress report indicates that the miscellany of state laws protecting pre-1972 sound recordings will extend copyright protection until 2067. Retro copyright protection could cause some problems in digitally produced "period" or "retro" music clips.
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Review: iWork 09 The Missing Manual User group editor Hartley Jackson reviews a new Missing Manual book -- iWork 09 The Missing Manual -- Hartley says: "Josh Clark has written this book to show us how to do what we want to do in iWork."
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Recover lost photos and tunes When you lose your photos because of a fouled memory stick or card, you feel like you've lost part of your life. Actually, you have -- chances are, you'll never get that moment back to take those shots again. If this disaster happens to you, hopefully you'll remember this alert about Advanced Photo Recovery for Mac OS X.
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Cell Phone: At Risk 80% of phone users store information on their phones that could easily be used to steal their identities ... 4.2 million are believed to be vulnerable to ID Theft in UK -- a warning from Credant that mobile phone users are loading the device that could blow their world apart
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Setting Your Hourly Rates How much should you charge for your services? A new freelancer often has problems finding average rates of professionals in your field. Here, Rachel Goldstein of AllFreelanceWork.com provides the step-by-step procedure in the best way to set your rates.
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FileMaker Pro 9 Many of you already know some people who are holding on to Tiger because it's the last Mac OS to run Classic -- which can still run early versions of FileMaker. This review may just prompt you to upgrade. Filemaker Pro review by Mike Berman from the Main Line Macintosh Users group in Paoli, PA
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The Leadership Vacuum What will we lose with the next generation? Nick Tasler, TalentSmart's global research leader takes a look at the future's work force and what exactly constitutes a high quality leader -- but what he finds is a huge gap between Boomers and Millennials in self-management.
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Run BASIC Run BASIC allows you to apply your desktop programming skills to create web applications without struggling with the overhead of typical web programming frameworks.
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PowerPoint Tips: Keep Your Audience Awake Three articles from CIO present a collection of PowerPoint tips and presentation techniques you can learn to improve your presentations -
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How fast is your internet? PCMag.com Best ISPs in America... To uncover the nation's best ISPs, PCMag utilized the custom-designed SurfSpeed application (a utility that grabs pages from several popular Web sites to measure actual Internet surfing speed
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Using Cheap Media? Are you ready to risk your images just to save a few bucks? Is it Ok to Use Cheaper Media in Your Digital Camera? Andrew Malek provides some advice why you should purchase memory media for your digital camera with caution
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Students Brand America Bright young talent wins again! Brooks Institute's STUDENTS Triumph in FutureBrand's Brand America Contest -- identifying the Brand Values of the United States
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Setting Your Hourly Rates How much should you charge for your services? A new freelancer often has problems finding average rates of professionals in your field. Here, Rachel Goldstein of AllFreelanceWork.com provides the step-by-step procedure in the best way to set your rates.
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Adopt an Author More than 8,000 middle & high school teachers have registered for the program since 1999 -- Principals have called Adopt-An-Author "the best secondary school reading program ever implemented," find out about and get involved -- adopt an author
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12 Creative Photography Ideas Photographer John Huegel says "Keep these ideas in mind, to get your creative juices flowing and increase your skills and value as a photographer " ... 12 Creative Photography Ideas
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Resizing Images Online If you email or blog with images, they should be sized correctly. Web developer Alex Don shares advice for using online services that can do a great job of automatically resizing your images! No image processer needed.
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Photo Books make Great Gifts Now is the time to start thinking about gifts -- particularly if you want very thoughtful yet fairly inexpensive gifts. Planning is important, and as you shoot -- keep your photo book concepts in mind and shoot for the purpose. Here, MJ Johnston shares some tips on photo books ...
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Photographic Greeting Cards You probably have a great treasury of photos that could be put to real use... noted photographer John Huegel shares tips and guides you to create some truly great, high-quality cards you will be proud to send.
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25th for 128 WOW Computer guru George Engel recently visited an Apple store and blew them away with the original 128 Mac, ImageWriter and a demonstration of the computer that started the personal computing and desktop publishing revolution ...
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Why Bad Spending Happens To Good People Everyone needs good spending habits. In today's over stimulated, over saturated world it's even more important to develop a sharp awareness to where each dollar goes. Noted author Nick Tassler explains some tips to live by
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8 Killer Mistakes to Avoid When Starting a Business Here are killer mistakes to avoid when starting a business excerpted from So, You Want to Start a Business? 8 Steps to Take Before Making the Leap by Ed Hess and Charles Goetz
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iPhone for Travelers Do you travel? Europe? Pacific rim? Middle East? If you've got an iPhone then you're in for some good news. Alta Vida LLC believes you should have a little help when abroad -- their language translation utility for iPhone and iPod Touch has more than 300 useful phrases and words in an incredibly fast and easy-to-use phrase book... let's go!
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The $tart-Up $olution These tough economic times have many Americans looking for work -- and looking for more ways to make ends meet. Authors Ed Hess and Charles Goetz have some advice you might not expect to hear right now: Start your own business!
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Time for a little Optimism In today's world of bad news, drive-by media, and know-it-all talking heads, it's no wonder people are walking around in a state of depression. How do you feel? Did you know it's not your fault? Would you like a little optimism in your life?
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Online TV Doubles Online TV viewing has been gaining in popularity. Nearly one-fifth of American households who use the internet watch television broadcasts online, double the viewership from 2006. Here's a peek at some interesting statistics ...
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Options Insider Mobile Investing on the iPhone? The Options Insider provides options traders, brokers, market makers, financial media and retail customers with a rare insight into the world of options.
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Flashforward The Flashforward Film Festival have announced 50 Nominees in 10 categories for Big Orange Rubber Arrow to be awarded on August 21 at the Flashforward Film Festival in San Francisco
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Copyright Act Changes Anyone and everyone who publishes anything anywhere needs to follow copyright law. The U.S. Copyright Office has issued its report on whether to maintain, modify or eliminate Sections relating to the cable and satellite statutory licenses in the Copyright Act.
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New copyright technology Publishers: the U.S. Copyright Office released new technology to process applications online - eCO and "Form CO" with 2-D Barcode Technology : translation: lower filing fee of $35 for a basic claim -- fastest processing time!
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Is your paper GREEN? NewPage Corporation has plans to launch a 'Story' marketing campaign and new Web site, www.PaperTellsAStory.com, to help educate consumers on the importance of knowing the manufacturing source of the paper used for their companies' business printing.
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Frame your art ImageFramer custom image framing utility for Mac OS X makes it easy to apply photo-realistic frames to digital images, drawings or any original artwork.
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The Land of Difficult People From Tibet to Mexico to the Balkans, every culture has its own cherished folktales. Now, Terrence L. Gargiulo and Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D share their wisdom for dealing with typical workplace characters drawn from the world's treasury of folk stories -- in the Land of Difficult People
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Private File Sharing More than 100,000 Beta testers have now proven that there is a real market for privately sharing personal media. A unique new service now available
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Free Clip Art from Jumsoft... Yet more great clip art icons for your presentations and publishing projects. Freshly drawn, this clip is well worth a look
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Surviving the Economic Downturn The financial news of the past few weeks has left many a business owner panicked -- but David Giannett says you can actually use the economic downturn to create a better organization.
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60 Seconds: Crime gets a free ride from ICANN Over 800 spams in a single day -- I discover that nearly 200 of them advertise the SAME product, yet send the unweary victim to a different domain. One spammer has thousands of domains... but wait -- they change about every five days! Organized crime on the web is getting a free ride from ICANN by "Domain Tasting" ... here's how it works
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Freeway MUG Deal... Freeway producers offer a good opportunity for user groups to own Freeway, and give members a 25% discount...
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Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
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Pope Benedict XVI gets The Saint John's Bible in today's world of instant publishing, blogs, wikis, and all manner of desktop publishing wizards, and on-demand printing -- isn't it nice to learn that for the first time in 500 years, there is a bible written, illustrated and bound completely, 100%, by hand! ...
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Codeless web sites If you would rather not dig under the hood and work directly with web html code, then Freeway 5 could be for you. With its traditional page layout approach, Freeway makes it easy to create dynamic websites without the need to write code.
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Make your Money Dance Now there's a financial management for the Mac with a familiar checkbook-register interface and banking, online bill payment, investment management, budget tracking and much more.
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