Looking to purchase a digital camera? You might want to check out this 6 MegaPixel model, which sells for only $399 U.S., half the price of it’s competition. The camera features one-touch video recording, includes 16 MB of Internal memory, a lithium rechargeable battery, and a TV out plug, along with ULEAD Photo Explorer 8.0 software.

If you’re purchasing a new computer, you absolutely DO NOT want to put it onto the Net before pre-installing the Windows Critical Updates. Of course, you also want to pre-install an anti-virus programme, like Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan, or AVG Anti-Virus, and a good, workable and protective firewall, along the lines of ZoneAlarm or Sygate.
Still and all, pre-installing the Windows Updates from a CD is the way to go when setting up a new PC in your home, or office.
Microsoft has just announced a customer service programme where they’ll send you — at no charge to you, with no strings attached — a CD containing ALL of the Windows Critical Updates. All you have to do is click on this link, fill out the form, and – voilà – you’ll be off to the races.

Let’s face it, computers are little more than fancy filing cabinets. Oh sure, there are a great many things you can do with your computer: surf the Web to read newspapers from across the globe, listen to your favourite radio station in Scotland (or wherever), watch the news, download and listen to music, watch video … the uses to which you might apply your computer are without end …
When all is said and done, though, computers are really little more than complex storage devices, albeit interactive storage devices which may serve to bring you much joy. Your computer might even serve to help make you aware of political, social, health and other issues you otherwise might not have become aware of.
If you’re going to use your computer to good advantage, then, if you are to preserve the investment — both financial and emotional — you have made in your computer, you MUST work towards the implementation an effective security protocol. This current article you are reading — on computer security — is all about helping you to learn to surf safely, in order that you might be permitted the best possible experience in front of your computer, today, tomorrow and long into the future.

SPAM: Electronic junk mail. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail, although spam usually refers to unsolicited e-mail advertising that arrives in your Inbox.
In addition to wasting people’s time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwith. The generally accepted version of the genesis of the term ‘spam’ comes from the Monty Python song, “Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam…”
There are many ways to control, and even eliminate, spam.

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