If your like me then the word free is a very near and dear word to you. Free cookies, Free music, Free Money, and of course Free shipping. I spend time when shopping online looking for the best deal and to me the best deal is one that includes free shipping. But, sometimes it takes [...]

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Get Back to where you once belonged day 5. All week I am going to be talking about backups. Today though I want to discuss what to do when there is no backup and you need the services of a data recovery specialist. I mentioned at the beginning of this series that 43% of all data [...]

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Get Back to where you once belonged. All week I am going to be talking about backups. Yesterday I covered using an online service to store your data. Today I am going to cover using an external drive to keep your data safe. The prices of hard drives have dropped incredibly in the past few years. [...]

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Get Back to where you once belonged. All week I am going to be talking about backups. Yesterday I talked about using CD’s and DVD’s to make backups of your data, and told you that that can become unmanageable. Today I will look at backing up your files online using free and pay services. The first [...]

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Get Back to where you once belonged. All week I am going to be talking about backups. Yesterday I told you of a few ways to handle making a backup and today I am going to tackle the easiest. Making CD’s or DVD’s of your data. Although this is an older and let’s face it lo-tech [...]

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Get Back to where you once belonged. All week I am going to be talking about backups. I know that for some this is a sore subject but the problem is that most people are aware that they need backups for their personal data but never implement a solution. Worse yet is those who have set [...]

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Those things can be nasty little buggers. But if your not sure or you want to check to see if you do then you are going to need an anti virus. A program that scans your computer for files that have been infected with malicious code that can at minimum disrupt your day and at [...]

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Sound the all clear sirens there will be no noxious fumes and giant fireballs in the sky from the hydrazine on the Pentagons dead spy satellite. Nope, they knocked that sucker out of the sky, and on the first try. Can you believe it. Imagine what it must have been like in the control room. [...]

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After many months of testing, pondering, assessing and evaluating I have finally decided to go public with my official answer to the question that I am most often asked. What should I buy,HD-DVD or BluRay ? While it has been a very interesting adventure what with all the hours and hours of movies that I [...]

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Hey it could happen. You get caught off guard and click a link you shouldn’t have and POW your computer gets a keylogger, or a rootkit. Then the problem gets worse and your computer starts acting funny, slowing down. You ran all the spyware removers and they all came back clean. Your anti-virus reports all [...]

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Today may not seem like much of a special day. Well OK so it is presidents day. But hey, this is a tech report so I had to find some tech news. On Monday February 18th 2008 another era comes to a close with the switching off of the analog cell signals around the country. [...]

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Can you believe that on February 15th 1946, 62 years ago ENIAC was introduced to the world. What’s ENIAC you ask? ENIAC which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator was the first general purpose computer beginning of the modern computing age. With 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and 5 [...]

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Um…I’ll take a decaf grande’ half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n’-Low, and one NutraSweet please and Um..a side of Internet access. Oh, and I have AT&T so it’s free right? Yup, Starbucks is set to begin offering FREE AT&T wireless access while in the shop. The [...]

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What is your personal data and tax return information worth? Do you think it’s worth 54 million? Raelyn Campbell does. Best Buy lost her laptop that had her personal data and tax returns on it. After months of giving her the runaround and saying the the machine was being repaired, Best Buy finally fessed up [...]

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When you think of customizing your Operating System do you shudder with fear and start to shake? Believe it or not it is really simple. So simple in fact that I’m going to give you a quick way to create a custom Control Panel for your system that has only the tools that you want [...]

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CH ch ch Changes! Beginning January 26 the WMEL broadcast will be pre-recorded and we will not be taking phone calls. Our Radio audience can reach us by emailing Robert or Madison at tkmshow.com. Let us hear from you! For those who like to sleep in you can join us on TalkShoe.com at 9:00 am PST, [...]

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eBay has made a few tiny changes to the way that sellers do business with them. In the past if a buyer was not satisfied with a transaction they could post negative feedback about the seller. In turn if said seller was also not satisfied they could leave negative feedback about the buyer. With the [...]

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To complete my three day series on how you can protect your computer and your privacy I am going to take a look at the idea of Phishing scams. According to Wikipedia Phishing is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a [...]

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Well It’s my own fault. I went to a party where everyone was infected with Giant Fever. So what is a virus anyway? in the simplest possible terms a virus is software that is used to infect other computers. The virus is then hidden in another program or file and transferred from computer to computer [...]

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Boy if I had a dime for every time I heard that one. Well, over the next few days I am going to give you some things to look for and possible solutions to try that may resolve the problem without you having to reinstall your OS and start again. Here we go. Zombie’s If your computer [...]

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Well if the answer to that question is no, then I have something that will keep you busy. We have all heard about time waster websites that tie up your day and make those last hours on the clock fade a little faster but I think I have found the mother of all time waster [...]

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CH ch ch Changes! Beginning January 26 the WMEL broadcast will be pre recorded and we will not be taking phone calls. Our Radio audience can reach us by emailing Robert or Madison at Tkmshow.com. Let us hear from you! For those who like to sleep in you can join us on Talk Shoe at 9:00 [...]

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Well not the one in Arizona, but on your computer it’s a done deal. You see for the last 5 years EA Sports and the Madden football series have correctly identified the winner of the Super Bowl. And this year Madden 08 is no exception. According to EA Sports the Patriots will beat the Giants [...]

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Are you one of those people that hate to stand up in front of people and give a presentation? Businessweek.com is giving away the secret to delivering a top flight presentation and revealing the tricks to sending your audience away wanting more. How did they do this? By analyzing the master of presentations, Steve Jobs. That’s [...]

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Craigslist is one killer website. For years you have heard about craigslist.com. You know that you can find almost anything there. Well it seems that there are some people who are willing to take the concept a little too far. Ann Marie Linscott a 49 YO woman from Grand Rapids MI tried to hire someone to [...]

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CH ch ch Changes! Beginning January 26 the WMEL broadcast will be pre recorded and we will not be taking phone calls. Our Radio audience can reach us by emailing Robert or Madison at Tkmshow.com. Let us hear from you! For those who like to sleep in you can join us on Talk Shoe at 9:00 [...]

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Right about now there is a 500ft long asteroid named 2007 TU24 that is racing toward earth and expected to slam into the planet killing every living thing, breaking the earth into a gazillion little pieces and scattering our dust throughout the universe. Oh wait a minute, this just in, according to Don Yeomans, manager [...]

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No problem Lifehacker.com has laid out a step by step process for you to take your old PC and turn it into a Mac running Leopard. Now it used to be that if you wanted to make PC hardware run a Mac OS you had to jump thorough hoops and do a tribal dance. All [...]

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Rod Tell or listeners what the next item up for bid is. Thanks Bob, the next item up for bid is: the “A”"B”"C”"D” and “E” Blocks of the Wireless spectrum Bob. That’s right, you will be the talk of the town in your sporty new spectrum. These amazing frequency blocks will be used to create a new [...]

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I mentioned a few weeks ago about JetBlu airlines offering in-flight wi-fi on a select few flights and at the end of my report I predicted that there would be a flood of carriers offering the service by the end of 2008. Boy was I wrong. It’s not even 2 months into 2008 and there [...]

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HBO and Time Warner are trying to get your attention and it appears to be working. Soon the two will jointly offer an online service that gives subscribers of HBO on Demand customers who also have Time Warner Broadband service the ability to watch selected content as well as view live real time [...]

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How are you going to watch History unfold? If you’re like many sports fans out there, On February 3rd you will be huddled around a TV screen and cheering on your favorite team. What’s that? You don’t have a big screen Hi Def TV to watch the big game? No problem here are a few tips [...]

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Even Sprint can’t stand Sprint! I have made no bones about my dislike for Sprint. After having been with them for 4 years I finally got out from under their thumb late last year. Well it seems that more and more people are getting [...]

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CH ch ch Changes! Beginning January 26 the WMEL radio broadcast will be pre-recorded and we will not be taking live on air phone calls. Our radio audience can reach us by emailing robert@tkmshow.com. For those who like to sleep in you can join us on Talk Shoe at 9:00 am PST, 10:00 CST, and 12:00 [...]

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This is Madison sitting in for the TKM As if credit-less customers need another company trying to take advantage of them Wal-mart has started issuing the “Wal-Mart Money Card”. essentially this is a prepaid debit card that you can reload with funds as needed. But the problem is in the fees associated with this little gem. Hang on, [...]

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This is madison sitting in for the tkm Do you remember when Microsoft released Windows Vista way back in January of 2007. remember all those people who said that they were going to wait until Microsoft released the first service pack before they would [...]

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You could be the winner of an iPod Nano! No jingles to write, no puzzles to solve, no right or wrong answers. To enter simply send an email to Madison@tkmshow.com, subject line should refer to ?Jan 08 contest?. It?s that easy! Employees and their family members of 920 WMEL , TKM Show and Talk Shoe [...]

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Hi this is Madison, sitting in for the TechKnowMan Genius or desperation, you decide. In what will surely appear to be a last ditch effort to stay alive, Toshiba has cut the prices [...]

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This is Madison sitting in for the TechKnowMan And Poof! out of the thin air. At Macworld today Apple introduced the newest addition to their MacBook line. The MacBook Air. This thing may just be a glimpse into the future of portable computing. Here’s the skinny: You get an LED back lit 13.3″ screen, a built in [...]

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I survived the crush of people and resisted the urge to call my bank and mortgage the house to buy… well, everything I could. And after all is said and done, even with 150,000 media and and industry people, I have to say that this was quite possibly the most fun I have had on [...]

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Of all the new gadgets and gear that is displayed each year. Some things just keep coming back. And that keeps us guys coming back.

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After spending three days trolling through the halls of the LVCC I have unearthed a few gems to check out.

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Click to Play Just a quick look at some of the International Hall exhibitors.

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Click to Play After a long series of delays, No thanks to the fact that my luggage is still missing. We finally got to Vegas.

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Imagine being able to get directions from a personal assistant that understands your voice and delivers accurate and complete turn by turn assistance the whole way, Now imagine that the service is free. Ask.com has made public a new service that allows you to get directions to any destination just by um.. asking. By pointing your [...]

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source: lifehacker, techrepublic New Year’s Resolutions may be the worlds largest manifestation of a guilt complex, remorse and regret but we make them anyway. So if we’re all going to put ourselves through the misery of trying to keep them then we might as well get as much help as possible. So from Lifehacker.com here [...]

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Battery addicts watch out! Staring Jan 1, 2008 the Federal Aviation Commission will limit the number and weight of batteries that contain Lithium. A quick breakdown is this, the maximum amount of lithium per battery that you check is 8-grams and you can only have two spares with you that total 25-grams. Uh..did anyone over [...]

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I am really excited about attending The 2008 CES Show in Las Vegas next week. I have never been to the show and I am looking forward to getting the scoop on all the latest gear and gizmo’s that will be revealed there. If you are not familiar with CES it stands for Consumer Electronic [...]

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Rumors It has been rumored that Apple will be renting movies through the iTunes store. Disney currently is the only movie company you can rent and buy from the iTunes store. According to Financial Times, a person familiar with the situation has indicated, Apple has a deal with Fox to provide late breaking DVD’s for purchase [...]

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You’re a good man Charlie Brown? Epson Peanuts Themed Laptop has 15 inch display, 1.73 GHz Intel Celeron M430 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, an 80 gig hard drive, four USB ports and DVD combo drive. The price of $2,799.99 will not get it to you in time for Christmas. How to win friends and influence [...]

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Like many people I rushed to my computer the morning of November 12th this year to place an order for a new computer. However, the computer I ordered was a little different from most others. I choose to donate to a good cause and went over to www.laptop.org and ordered one from the One Laptop [...]

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Hey don’t blame me, I just report this stuff! Leading consumer and retail information provider The NPD Group revealed today that consumers who own Apple Mac computers are much more likely than PC users to pay to download music. According to Russ Crupnick, vice president and entertainment industry analyst “There’s still a cultural divide between Apple consumers [...]

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