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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Voice Over IP Basics
VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a method of allowing you to talk to someone over a network such as the Internet or a corporate network on a device similar to a normal telephone. There are services available that allow you to make VOIP calls for free such as Skype. Services like Skype require both the person placing the call and the person receiving the call to be on the service, while other fee-based VOIP services like Vonage allow you to call any phone number just as you would with standard telephone service. For more information on VOIP, you can check out the FCC site FAQ on VOIP.
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Thursday, May 04, 2006
A Guide to Internet Blockers and Filters
Young online surfers are bound to run into content they should not see, especially since the Internet is an environment where anything goes. An innocent misspelling of a word can lead to a graphic display of pornography. Parents should take the necessary precautions to monitor the activity of children online. An effective method to monitor a child’s use of the Internet is to use Internet blocking and filtering software, known as parental control software, to filter out objectionable content before it reaches young eyes and ears.
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
The Facts About MySpace
Even if your children don’t have an account, they’ve certainly heard enough about it through word of mouth. The latest hangout for tweens and teens isn’t the mall in downtown or any particular club, but rather the chaotic world of cyberspace, at a website called MySpace.com. As the hottest social networking site on the web, MySpace has accumulated an estimated 54 million users in just three years of existence, with many users falling within the teen and twenty-something crowds and approximately 19% under the age of 17. MySpace is a wonderful place to meet others of like mind and interest, but with this sharing of interests come other dangers that are heightened by the unregulated nature of the Internet and the ready availability of personal information online.
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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Print Your Snaps With PictBridge
We all like taking lots of photos of our family and friends everywhere we go. Some of us still have to wait for the fat envelope full of prints to arrive from the photo-processing house to see how our snapshots came out. But, most of us Geeks have long since switched to digital still cameras and can instantly see the results on the tiny LCD screen on the camera. What is missing is a photograph on a piece of paper. It’s somehow more satisfying to shuffle through a stack of prints.
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