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If you're running out of storage space on your hard drive, and on a tight budget, try a free online storage tool to offload some files. Documents, spreadsheets, images, music and movies can take up a big chunk of your available hard drive space. Fortunately, there are numerous free online storage options that you can take advantage of.
With the advent of the Amazon Kindle, Sony's eReader and other ebook readers, you can carry a whole library of books without breaking your back. However, paying for all those ebook downloads at $10 a pop can still break the bank. But you CAN get them for free if you know where to look.
Bing is a new search engine from Microsoft. It's a lot like the others which allow you to use keywords to search for web content. But Bing does have some unique features that make it worth a try. Bing is being promoted as a "decision-engine" as opposed to a "search engine" because it gives you more information about your search results than Google or Yahoo!
Wouldn't it be great to pipe whatever is on your computer screen directly to your big-screen TV, without stretching a mess of cables all over your house? Now you can wirelessly send YouTube videos, computer games and movies from your PC screen directly to your television screen -- even browse the web on your fancy HDTV. Enter the age of the wireless video sending device.
When I was a kid, research meant spending hours in the library, poring over dusty tomes, making notes on index cards, and then trying to organize it all. (At least we had electric typewriters.) The Web offers instant access to research, databases, and experts on almost every subject. But research can be a very labor intensive process, even when you have the resources of the Internet at your fingertips.
You're surfing the Net and all of a sudden a screen pops up warning you there is a problem on your computer. You're not sure if it's real or not, so what do you do? Be careful, it could be scareware. Scareware is software that is created for the purpose of tricking people into downloading or purchasing it, when in reality it's either unnecessary, marginally useful, or outright dangerous.
It doesn't hurt to be a little paranoid, when they really ARE out to get you. There are plenty of dangers that might be lurking in your computer, or out there in cyberspace. Fortunately, there are some excellent privacy software tools that can be used to both diagnose potential threats to your computer privacy as well as to secure your system.
