Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Tech News for Wednesday 11-24-04
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| Tech News Please visit Multipleplatforms.com for all the tech news and links. 11-24-04 New Reason To Switch: I love my iPod A recent survey suggests that 6 percent of iPod users have dumped their PCs and made the switch to… Phishing Attacks Increase Security gurus are tracking a growing number of phishing attempts and the perpetrators are increasing the sophistication of their attacks and adding automation to their arsenal. As noted last week… Project Seeks to Turn Tables on Scammers Project Honey Pot is an effort to catch spammers and when possible, deny them from their evil ways. According to their web site, “Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers… Desktop Search Review for PCs PC World has an excellent review on desktop search software and their favorite is the one I have not tried a tool from… Desktop Search Tool for Apple Macintosh Explorer is a desktop search tool for Apple users and you can take the software for a test drive to decide if the product is right for you. If you are thinking of upgrading to Tiger… Most Anti-Spyware Tools Miss Problems Slashdot had a link to an excellent report published by graduate student Eric L. Howes. Howes’ performed tests on various anti-spyware… Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official Released According to the Linuxgazette, Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official has been released. PC Tip of the Day: Desktop Cleanup Wizard Is your desktop getting cluttered with shortcuts you never use? Windows XP includes the Desktop Cleanup Wizard and you can activate this program by right-clicking anywhere in a open Finder window then select ‘Arrange Icons By’; click on the Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard at the bottom of the pop-up dialogue box and follow the Wizard to a clean desktop. Apple Tip of the Day: Close Programs Quickly Last week our tips included the keyboard shortcut to quickly scroll through open programs: first press and hold command then press tab and the open application will be displayed in a small window and each time you depress Tab you scroll to the next program and the program last selected moves to the front. To quit any of those applications, command and tab to it, then while you continue to hold down the command key, select Q and the program will close. What is GUI? Microsoft provides the definition of the acronym GUI, “graphical user interface. An interface that represents programs, files, and options with graphical images. These images can include icons, menus, and dialog boxes. The user selects and activates these options by pointing and clicking with a mouse or with the keyboard. A particular GUI item (for example, a scroll bar) works the same way in all applications.” www.microsoft.com/hwdev/resources/glossary.asp Please visit our other site: www.californiafairsandfestivals.com
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