If you're going to be serious about electronics retail in the U.S., it looks like you have to be serious about employing professional geeks. Beginning Saturday, 20...
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Sam's Club hires its own squad of geeks
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Microsoft Offers Free Tech Support to All Windows Vista Customers
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Got a problem finding the correct printer driver for your Windows Vista computer? Or did some of your software programs and hardware devices stop working after you...
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What does an eBay phishing attack look like?
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I got an email from an eBay buyer saying that he had a question for me about an auction, but it's not an auction I'm running. Will I get into trouble with eBay if I don't...
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How does flushing DNS help resolve some issues, and while you're at it what's DNS?
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I suddenly started to encounter 'time-out' error messages with certain sites - yours being one of them! On looking further, I could not find any logic to the dozen or...
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If There's One Thing I Can't Stand...
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... It's touching my computer screen. Worse than that? Someone else touching my computer screen. Microsoft has been touting Windows 7 at the AllThingsD conference. Steve...
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Nuance PDF Converter 5
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[@832]Nuance PDF Converter 5Couple days ago I installed PDF Converter Pro 5 from Nuance. They called me last week to offer me a deal, since I already own OmniPage and...
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Is Last Minute Bidding (Sniping) the only Way to Win an eBay Auction?
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I've been trying to add some new stamps to my collection by looking on eBay, and while I am amazed at the range and variety of what's available for us philatelists, I'm...
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Unsupported rapid oxidation
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Direct2dell.com: Offering pre-installed Ubuntu Desktoplinux.com Ubuntu on Dells BBC: Dell recall laptop power supplies ZDnet: Dell laptop batteries explode The...
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Can Today's Doctors Be Competent Without Computers?
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Physicians who do not use the tools of information technology (IT) such as electronic health records and computerized entry of prescriptions could fall short of...
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How do I delete an iPhone application from iTunes?
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Now that I have a shiny new iPhone, I've gone a bit wild adding applications from the iTunes Application Store. So many applications that it's out of control. Now I want...
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How can I figure out how well a movie did in the box office?
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I follow your awesome Twitter movie news and trivia channel @FilmBuzz and figured you'd know the answer to this question: How can I find out how much money a movie, like,...
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eBay no speaky english
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I've had a bit of a problem with ebay lately: my account of 10 years has been suspended indefinitely by mistake. This is what happened: I logged onto ebay using a...
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How do you stop someone scraping / stealing your blog content?
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Hi Dave. I'm a follower of your blog..its wonderful that you answer so many questions. I'm in a trouble and hope you will help me. :-) I have a blog on Blogger. Recently...
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How do I get bloggers to write about our research results?
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Hi Dave, love the blog. My question for you is what is the best way to get bloggers to utilize and write about my research. I work for a company called VideoBloom and I...
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How do I read prior lines in a text file?
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I want to compare a line in a file with zero(0) and if its more than zero i want to print the prior two lines, can u please help me in solving out this... please Continue...
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Linksys, 0; Netgear 1.
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Our new house comes with structured wiring. That is, we have varieties of conduit, co-ax and CAT6 running from drop points outside the house to a wiring closet, and patch...
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Backing Up - There's more to this!
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I found out to my disgust that Time Machine on the Mac only backs up your main hard drive, not even a second internal drive according to the apple tech support person. It...
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How do I get an OpenID account?
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I was visiting a friend's Livejournal blog and to leave a comment I needed an "OpenID". But I have no idea what that is and where one registers for an Open ID. Does it...
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How do I download iPhone apps from the Apple iTunes store?
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I just downloaded the latest version of iTunes, all excited about being able to finally get to the Apple Applications Store and grab some new stuff for my iPhone, but...
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How do I upgrade my Apple iPhone to firmware 2.0?
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I'm excited to add the many new capabilities and improvements to my beloved Apple iPhone, but have heard that the jump from 1.1.4 to 2.0 completely wipes your phone. Can...