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Tip of the Week: Moving your cursor without a mouse
With the popularity of wireless keyboards and mice on today's PCs, one of the downsides is when your wireless device loses its connection or has a dead battery, you are stuck. The next time you find yourself without a mouse but need to move the cursor, remember this week's tip:
Press the Alt+Shift+NumLock keys all at once to launch the MouseKey box then press your Enter key. This will convert your numeric keypad into a functional mouse. When you want to go back, simply press the Alt+Shift+NumLock again and select Cancel.
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Headwhack of the Week: Peering eyes when I walk away from my PC
If you work or live in an environment where you are concerned about nosey "passers-by" when you leave your computer, you can add a shortcut to your Desktop that will instantly activate your screensaver for whenever you plan to walk away. Screensavers all have the *.scr extension, so if you don't know where your screensavers are located, do a Search in C:\Windows for all *.scr files.
Once you locate your screensaver files, you can double-click on any of them to see what they look like. Once you locate the screensaver of your choice, right-click on the file, select the "Send To" option then the "Desktop (create shortcut)" option which will create a shortcut to the screensaver on your Desktop.
BONUS TIPS: You can create a custom hotkey combination which will allow you to launch your screensaver shortcut without having to go to the Desktop (see the Tip of the Week from last week's newsletter) AND if you tell Windows to go back to the Welcome screen in the Screen Saver Properties (Right-click on the Desktop, select Properties then click on the Screen Saver tab) nosey folks will need your login password to peek at your stuff while you are gone!
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Geek Speak of the Week: Mashup
In the digital world, mashups combine data, music, video or other digital content from multiple sources to appear as one. Mashups orignated in the Hip Hop music world, where multiple songs were combined to create new songs. The same now occurs with web resources, videos and just about any form of digital content.
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Security: Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) of today face the same Internet-born threat of worms and denial-of-service attacks, as well as being at risk from malicious applications that can harvest customer data or hijack machines as any normal computer.
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News: MySpace Suicide Indictment Sets 'Scary' Legal Precedent
In their eagerness to visit justice on a 49-year-old woman involved in the Megan Meier MySpace suicide tragedy, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are resorting to a novel and dangerous interpretation of a decades-old computer crime law -- potentially making a felon out of anybody who violates the terms of service of any website, experts say.
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News: 'Mashups' turn into an industry as offerings mature
There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention.
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Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Beware the IRS Stimulus Payment scams
We warned about the current wave of IRS Stimulus Payment scams that are in circulation in last week's advice column or now you can see our video version on CNN.com!
Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com! You can watch us live every Saturday morning at 9:30AM Pacific, 12:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at CNN.com/video.
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Opinion: The Top 10 Social Networking Annoyances
"It's great to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues online, but does the price have to be spam, zombie bites, and truckloads of invitations from people you've never heard of?" asks Scott Spanbauer of PC World.
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Weekly Advice Column: Auto Caps Lock switching between programs
Typing in ALL CAPS is akin to yelling or shouting on the Internet and in e-mail, so making sure your Caps Lock setting is in the right mode before you start typing is good netiquette. But what can you do when you have a program that requires all upper case input or you're just plain lazy?
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This Week's Show: Windows XP Service Pack 3: To install or Not install?
Microsoft recently released their latest Service Pack for Windows XP (3) and the results of this release have been mixed. We wrote weeks ago that we recommend folks hold off on installing SP3 until we had some time to examine the various issues that are bound to come from such a major update.
As we work with our clients around the country and monitor the issues being posted online, it is clear that some percentage of users is being negatively impacted by the installation of SP3.
Listen in as the Data Doctors discuss all the latest findings, patches, do's and don'ts when it comes to Windows XP's Service Pack 3.
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