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Adjust your keyboard settings Windows 7 shows off some cool features to improve your typing technique. Veronica gives you the lowdown on today's Tekzilla Daily. Related posts:Tekzilla Tip: Windows-Turn Off Your Laptop's Trackpad While Typing Avoid bumping the mousepad Prevent typing disasters caused by...Tekzilla Tip: Windows – Choose What Stays in the System Tray Customize your notification area Windows 7 features some cool...Tekzilla Tip: Windows 7 Taskbar Tricks Secret shortcuts for easier navigation Windows 7 brings with...

Access email anywhere! Want to check your email, but can't get access to a connection? No problem! Veronica shows you the workaround on today's Tekzilla Daily. Related posts:Tekzilla Tip: Windows-Turn Off Your Laptop's Trackpad While Typing Avoid bumping the mousepad Prevent typing disasters caused by...Tekzilla Tip: Windows 7 Taskbar Tricks Secret shortcuts for easier navigation Windows 7 brings with...Tekzilla Tip: Windows – Choose What Stays in the System Tray Customize your notification area Windows 7 features some cool...

All New pcpitstop.com Black Screen of Death The Dodge Retort: PC/TV Habits Chris Pirillo: Skype Phone Bits from Bill: Facebook Apps Stealing Info Ask Leo: Help, Stolen Email Identity Technologizer: Windows 7 Survey Results TechBite: 5 Net Tricks to Save You Money Tekzilla Tip: Reign In Your System Tray Tip #1: Security Tab in XP Tip #2: Synch People & Contacts Tip #3: Google Power to MSFT Office PC Pitstop Driver Library Related posts:PC Pitstop Newsletter – October 2009 #2 Bits from Bill: Should You Upgrade to Windows 7 Now?...PC Pitstop Newsletter – November 2009 #2 The Dodge Retort: Twitter, Facebook fertile phishing grounds Ask Leo:...PC Pitstop Newsletter – November 2009 95 Freeware Titles Loved Worldwide Chris Pirillo: Software Install Made...

Avoid bumping the mousepad Prevent typing disasters caused by accidentally hitting your laptop's mousepad. On today's Tekzilla Daily Veronica shows you a neat tool to make your life easier. Related posts:Tekzilla Tip: Windows 7 Taskbar Tricks Secret shortcuts for easier navigation Windows 7 brings with...Tekzilla Tip: Windows – Choose What Stays in the System Tray Customize your notification area Windows 7 features some cool...Tekzilla Tip: Free Windows Apps & More Free Stuff 13 Free Windows Apps 4 Free Cloud Applications You'll...

Phase 1 of a major overhaul of the PC Pitstop website is now complete. Our new home page went live last night. This update marks our biggest design change since since we opened our doors in 2000. Have a look and please let us know what you think. No related posts.

By Steve Bass Frugal? Thrifty? No, Cheap! "You're a bargain hunter," one of my more polite friends says. My wife's more to the point: She calls me a cheapskate. I like being frugal, but what do I know? Call me whatever you want (you will anyway), I don't like paying retail and I'm always looking for a deal, especially when shopping online. The Internet gives me the chance to comparison shop, see how shipping figures into the price, look over specifications, and feel confident I've found the best buy. Here are some of the sites I use. Related posts:TechBite: Save your PCs Bacon – Back up your Registry By Steve Bass System Restore is a recovery tool...TechBite: 5 Killer Word Tricks By Steve Bass Have It Your Way Microsoft Word:...TechBite: 7 Tools to Make Firefox Shine By Steve Bass Firefox users? Clear the decks --...

There are hundreds - if not thousands - of services that allow you to chat in real time. The one that tends to rule the roost is Skype. Nearly everyone seems to have a Skype account these days. Let's say you have a Skype account, but you're traveling. Yet, you still want to get ahold of your contacts without having to pay a lot of money to do so. What you need is a device that allows you to access your Skype account over Wi-Fi, instead of using a computer! Related posts:Chris Pirillo Video: How to Convert Cassettes to MP3 One of the first pieces of hardware I ever...Chris Pirillo Video: Easy Way to Edit Video Most video editors suck. I don't mean the people who...Chris Pirillo Video: Having Problems with Win XP SP3 Sometimes, it's easy to upgrade to the latest and greatest...

Now for PC Dysfunction, there is a new dosing option ... PC Matic LEARN MORE ABOUT PC MATIC! OR RUN A FREE PC MATIC SCAN NOW! Related posts:Introducing PC Matic What is PC Matic? PC Matic is a collection...

By Bill Pytlovany Are you one of the 350 million Facebook users? I’m a big fan of Facebook and like many I connect daily to see what my friends are doing and to share photos. As a security professional I am very careful about what I post and what information I allow to be shared. In that respect I’m unique. It surprises me how many of my friends will refuse to allow companies to share their information but eagerly give away their personal information to application developers on Facebook. Related posts:Bits from Bill: Facebook May Not Be For Everyone By Bill Pytlovany A few years ago I joined Facebook...Bits from Bill Pytlovany: How Apple Failed the Macintosh By Bill Pytlovany Yea, I know may get slammed...Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Should You Upgrade to Windows 7? By Bill Pytlovany Are you wondering if you should...

By Harry McCracken Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven’t gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed, missing drivers arrive, and compatibility glitches are ironed out. Even so, it’s not too early to start gauging what real people think of Windows Vista’s replacement. So to riff on Ronald Reagan’s famous question from his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, Are Windows users better off today than they were a few weeks ago, back in the Vista era? We decided to ask the Technologizer community, a group of tech enthusiasts with a high propensity to acquire new operating systems quickly and push them to their limits. Starting on November 16th, we surveyed our readers (and Twitter followers) about their experiences with Windows 7. Our goal: to do a reality check on the mostly favorable initial reviews of the new OS (as well as our own...

By Harry McCracken Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven’t gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed, missing drivers arrive, and compatibility glitches are ironed out. Even so, it’s not too early to start gauging what real... more...

Customize your notification area Windows 7 features some cool new ways to tweak your system tray. Veronica has all the details on today's Tekzilla Daily. Related posts:Tekzilla Tip: Windows 7 Taskbar Tricks Secret shortcuts for easier navigation Windows 7 brings with...Tekzilla: Free Windows Apps & More Free Stuff 13 Free Windows Apps 4 Free Cloud Applications You'll...Tekzilla Tip: Uncover Your Personal Google Info One-stop shop for your data stored with Google Want...

"Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP" is the title used for a post to Prevx's website describing what they feel is a very troublesome problem. Prevx offered a download to fix the bug, and within a day fear was blogged far and wide blaming the problem on Microsoft, of course, and their darned security patches. Prevx has since backed off a little from their initial claim but you can get a taste here. No related posts.

By Leo Notenboom It's trivial to set up accounts on the free services in which you can be anonymous - using entirely fake information - or in which you can impersonate someone else. I'm not sure I'd expect much help from the provider - Yahoo, in your case. To be honest, even if they did bother to reply, they wouldn't know who to believe. You and I know that you're not, but how's Yahoo to know that you're not the impersonator, or just someone trying to hassle someone else? Here's what I would do... Related posts:Ask Leo: How do I keep from getting my account hacked? By Leo Notenboom A reader asks: "My MSN HotMail...Ask Leo – Someone is sending from my email address! How do I stop them?! PC Pitstop is proud to welcome industry veteran Leo...Ask Leo: How do I keep my information on a shared computer private? By Leo Notenboom A reader asks: "I share a...

By John Dodge I used to write that the principal purposes for PCs and TVs would never intersect. Here’s my argument: watching TV is numbingly passive requiring little brain power while the PC is interactive necessitating thought, movement and action. Never the twain shall meet. Related posts:The Dodge Retort: Thumbs Up on the Verizon/Google Droid By John Dodge At last, the Apple iPhone has...The Dodge Retort: Socialnomics09, The Movie By John Dodge This 4 minute and 22 second...The Dodge Retort: Netbooks Getting Colorful (`cept Acer) By: John Dodge You can have a netbook in...

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