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Record producers are bolstering that this will be the last year CD's are available that are not copy protected. ;) I have yet to run into one of these copy protected CD's. When I finally do it better not be while I am traveling with my Laptop and my Pocket PC and not be able to listen to the CD
Here is another great tool like AdAware that finds and removes spyware from your computer. It was responsible for about a 40% increase in system click responsiveness! After it deleted some spyware that it found on a readers system. Many nice features including that it's share/freeware. [security.kolla.de]
Here is another cool tool that makes spyware programs fail to track your habits. ID-Blaster Plus works by frequently changing the product ID numbers that are used by programs to know who you are. Remember Windows Media Player has a unique id along with many other programs can use to track your actions. If you have updated the Windows Media
How long has it been since you have done any maintenance on your desktop be it from blowing the dust out to defragging your hard-drive. Well if it has been awhile PC World has some great resolutions to clean up the mess you have created in the past year. [PC World]
I have heard about this book before and it supposedly has some good information in it. It is being given away in PDF format. Should be worth the download. [New Networks]
Scientific American has come out with there top Scientific stories of 2002 [Scientific American]
I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Geek News Central is not even 1 year old at this point and the success of the site has amazed even me. Our Hit statistics reflect a continuous growth in user traffic. Many of you have stumbled upon the site via a search engine or referral. We are
Any self respecting geek will have watched the matrix no less than a dozen times and will be trying to by tickets to the initial sequel "The Matrix Reloaded
They hit the nail on the head with this article, very rarely do I agree with all points in an article. The Authors did a great job illustrating and explaining the common mistakes web site designers make. [Useit.com]
Why in the world did Yahoo by Inktomi? Seems they got the company at fire sale prices. But I wonder if they don't have a bigger plan. They went to a pay model some time ago to get listed and quite honestly it is not worth it. They already inked a deal to supplement there search queries with Google data
The Internet Villain Award dished out by the UK's Net industry has nominated the RIAA and is on the short list of possible awardees. :) [The Register]
A Broadband provider called Optimum Online sent the following e-mail to it's subscribers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Email to Optimum Online Customers Regarding Bandwidth Abuse Dear Optimum Online Subscriber: You may be running a server from you computer and not even know it. If you use any of the peer-to-peer file services listed below without disabling the file sharing option, the entire
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