Archive for October, 2007

Google rolled out free IMAP support on October 24th, 2007, allowing even more GMail fans to check their e-mail with desktop e-mail clients. If you are interested in finding out exactly what this IMAP stuff is, I suggest you read our e-mail primer on IMAP vs. POP. For those who are ready to go ahead and [...]

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In anticipation of the upcoming holiday season, poster printing outfit Wallhogs is offering free UPS ground shipping for any order placed between November 1st and November 21st of 2007. Wallhogs allows customers to print poster-sized prints of their own digital photos. The company’s most unique product is a self-adhesive vinyl poster, which which goes up on [...]

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Technology columnist John Dvorak thinks Microsoft paid entirely too much for their stake in Facebook. In an article on MarketWatch, Dvorak scoffs at the price MS paid for access to Facebook’s userbase, and derides the the popular social networking site’s audience. “But this is $300 a head for what are essentially bloggers, duds, poor students and [...]

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During the account setup process of desktop e-mail clients (e.g. Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook), there is a certain question that confounds many computer users. Whether you use a PC or a Mac, whether your service is provided by Google, Microsoft, or your ISP, you cannot avoid this question. IMAP or POP? While IMAP and POP are [...]

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Virtual Floppy Drive allows you to work with the contents of a floppy disk, sans the actual disk and drive. The contents of disks accessed via Virtual Floppy can be read, written, viewed, edited and saved — virtually anything you would expect to do with a traditional floppy disk. Virtual Floppy is able to mount images [...]

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If you are having trouble upgrading your Mac to Leopard, unplugging your external hard drives may be the simple fix you are looking for. After I inserted my Leopard install disc and rebooted, my Mac froze up. I rebooted a few more times, and each time it chose my external backup USB drive as the startup [...]

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How to describe The How-To Geek? The most descriptive phrase that comes to mind is that The Geek is a tutorial writing machine. Seriously, I am beginning to suspect that The Geek has managed to invent some form of artifically intelligent blog post-writing robot that knows more about Windows than Bill Gates himself. The How-To Geek [...]

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If you are a Mac user who is in the market for a new iPhone or iPod Touch, you should know that both devices require the latest version of Apple’s operating system. The system requirements of both the iPhone and the iPod Touch state that Mac OS X 10.4.10 (Tiger) is a must. What’s the big [...]

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Text messaging and e-mail go hand in hand – did you know that you can send almost anyone a text message straight to their phone from your e-mail account? Each wireless provider has an e-mail address set up for their users’ text messaging inboxes, and you can drop a text message to a person’s phone [...]

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The Real Player security vulnerability that we reported yesterday has been addressed by the folks at Real, who have released a patch to fix the issue. In order to secure their PCs, users of Real Player and Internet Explorer should upgrade their media player, to either version 10.5 or 11. Once the upgrade is complete, Real’s [...]

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