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You use Ctrl+Alt+Del to see what's running on your PC, to close crashed programs and processes, and to check performance. You probably avoid a few processes whose names mean nothing to you, but they're essential to Windows. svchost.exe sure likes to appear all the time and multiple times at that.... Read More

How To Search Your PC With Google Desktop

In this era of Internet, most people are frequent users of computers. Many of us use computers through out the day, accumulating morasses of information in various formats, which include email, digital photo, word document, spreadsheet, presentation file, ebook, article, other downloaded files, music, visited web pages, and many others.... Read More

A Peek Into the Near Future of Electronics Technology

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Toshiba Wins Hollywood Support for the HD DVD format

What led them to this choice, as all four studios stated separately, is better performance for the price and copyright protection.The other standard in competition, the Blu-ray disc, unconditionally backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, is also counting on support from Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox (the latter has... Read More

The Many Benefits of Owning a DVR

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Buying a Home Theater Receiver

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Passwords and the Human Factor

Passwords have a strange dual nature. The stronger and safer the password the more likely it will be undermined by human weakness.It is widely known that passwords are the most common means of access control. It is also common knowledge that passwords are the easiest way to compromise a system.... Read More

Looking For an MP3 Player?

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In The News:


Personal Tech: Military launches TroopTube
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Nov 17, 2008
Members can upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection, but a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and ...

Personal Tech: Tennesee boasts world's fastest unclassified computer
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Nov 17, 2008
AP The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. released this photograph Nov. 10 showing some of the 284 computer cabinets ...

Jamaica Gleaner

Is your broker, motor insurer tech savvy?
Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - 7 hours ago
Tim Ryles, PhD, in an article dated September 2008 - 'The Insurer's Duty at the Outset of a Personal Lines Claim' - wrote that the United States Supreme ...

TV's Interactive Future Arrives Today, Combining Social Media With ...
MarketWatch - Nov 21, 2008
An irreverent weekly tech/web culture show hosted by tech geeks/pop culture gurus Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, Diggnation was launched in 2005. ...
Interactive Multi-Cam Video Feed Almost Steals Kevin Rose's Digg ... Wired News
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A rank way to decide conference
Yahoo! Sports - 2 hours ago
The Big 12 failed to come up with enough of its own criteria for breaking a three-way tie at the top of the standings, as Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech ...
Texas Tech Red Raiders @ Oklahoma Sooners Crimson and Cream Machine
Former players recall Tech’s outright conference title Houston Chronicle
No. 2 Texas Tech's defense gaining respect International Herald Tribune
RedRaiders.com - FOXSports.comall 1,231 news articles

Personal Tech: Black Friday is a bright day for gadget lovers
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Nov 17, 2008
The day after Thanksgiving, also known as "Black Friday," is one of the biggest shopping days of the year because that's when stores introduce hot deals for ...

Bleacher Report

On College Football: If Texas Tech slips, dominoes will fall
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Nov 22, 2008
By Ray Parrillo The 2008 darling of college football, second-ranked Texas Tech, can take one more step toward the BCS championship game tonight when it ...
College Football Preview: I've Got a Crush on Mike Leach Deadspin
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15 Tech Secrets for the Serious Road Warrior
PC World - Nov 21, 2008
In the past, we've described how to accomplish more with popular online tools like Google Calendar, with text-messaging utilities like Web-based personal ...

Product Reviews

Nvidia to offer parallel tech for mobile devices
NetworkWorld.com, MA - Nov 19, 2008
Nvidia announced Tuesday a GPU-based Tesla Personal Supercomputer, which it said uses its Tesla GPUs and Cuda to deliver the power of a cluster of computers ...
Thanks to gamers, the desktop supercomputer arrives Computerworld
Tokyo Tech Builds First Tesla GPU Based Heterogeneous Cluster to ... MarketWatch
nVIDIA launches Tesla supercomputer Hindu
DigiTimes - Reg Hardwareall 216 news articles

Solutions: How to rip music from a DVD
Tampabay.com, FL - Nov 21, 2008
Send questions to personaltech@sptimes.com or Personal Tech, PO Box 1121, St. Petersburg, FL 33731. Questions are answered only in this column.
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