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Sunday, April 05, 2009

“Chipping” Away at Computer Jargon

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To know the computer, you need to be the computer; or at least know the jargon of the computer. If you’ve ever been looking for a computer or computer parts such as monitors or speakers, then it is certain that you’ve run across certain terms that can be collectively referred to as “computer jargon.” Many often wonder if some of these terms and phrases are meant to confuse rather than clarify your buying decision. We here at Tech Tips can assure that this is precisely the case; but knowing that an informed buyer is an empowered buyer we’ll endeavor to try to clear up some of the mystery of computer jargon.

In this Tech Tip, we’ll be specifically looking briefly at some of the jargon placed directly on a computer, computer monitor and computer speaker sets. 

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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Building Your Slides Online

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Over the last couple of years, I’ve been giving quite a few presentations. While some of those presentations have been solo efforts, I’ve done most of them with my business partner. And that’s when a few wrinkles have crept into our grand plans.

How? Well, an important (or at least useful) component of a presentation is a slide deck. Before plugging in a digital projector, you need to create your slides. It’s easy enough to pass a PowerPoint, Keynote, or OpenOffice.org Impress file around. But it’s just as easy to lose track of which file is the latest version. Or just lose the file.

Fortunately, some Web entrepreneurs have made strides in eliminating this problem by developing Web-based tools for creating slides. The four that this TechTip highlights have a number of things in common:

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Fraud and Scams on Craigslist (Part 2) – Avoiding Them

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In our first part on scams and fraud that are commonly run in Craigslist, we looked at how to identify them. In Part Two, we will be looking at ways to avoid them. While some of the measures may seem like common sense, it is amazing how many people still may not take them. Many times this can be either because the fraudster puts pressure, either subtle or overt, on the intended victim (as part of the scheme) or maybe they just don’t know what they don’t know.

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Does Craigslist Need Better Regulation?

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You’re looking for new digs – and know just where to find the perfect place; you want to buy another car, and know just where to search for one. Perhaps you have a place you want to rent or a car Craigslistyou want to sell and you know just the place for advertising them – Craigslist! With their goal of keeping online classifieds local, simple and (for the most part) free, there’s no question about it; Craigslist has become quite an online phenomenon. Constantly one of the top 50 websites sites visited, this website, for one offering local ads, has attracted literally a worldwide following. However, along with this following Craigslist has attracted a very unsavory element of scammers as well. 

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