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1• Where to find your IP address

By Andy Walker. If you need to know your IP address and you're having trouble finding it, here's a how-to that makes it easy.

2• Modem Port

By Andy Walker. Need to connect a modem to your computer? This article will show you exactly what the connectors look like, and how to connect them.

3• Back Orifice Trojan horse explained

By Andy Walker. True to the historical version, a Trojan horse can attack your computer without your realizing anything's going wrong.

4• How to find an e-mail address

By Andy Walker. Trying to locate a long-lost friend by looking for an e-mail address? Elementary, my dear Watson.

5• How to set-up a home network

By AndyWalker. If you have more than one computer in your home, it's easy to set up a home network.

6• How to use a cellular phone to go online with your laptop

By Andy Walker. Cell phones can be used for more than just making phone calls.

7• Here's what you need for your personal home office

By Andy Walker. If you need to buy equipment for your home office, here are some Cyberwalker recommendations.

8• Carbonite Online Backup

By Jason Kerluck. Carbonite offers an uncomplicated way to save whatever you need to save on your computer before tragedy strikes and your hard drive goes kaput.

9• Learn to defeat spam

By Andy Walker. Spam is a modern day plague.

10• How to fix web link errors

By Andy Walker. If you're having trouble reaching certain web pages on the Internet, and you know they were there before, here are some helpful tips to get you to your destinations.

11• Get hackers out of your home

By Andy Walker. The arrival of broadband Internet access has opened up a new playground for hackers: home computers.

12• Is your link fast enough? Check it!

By Andy Walker. You can test your connection to see how fast your speedy connection really is.

13• CA Anti-Spam 2007 makes sense

By Ted Gallardo. While relatively effective when cleaning up Microsoft's mail applications, this spam-killer won't work on e-mail applications from other makers.

14• How to avoid unwanted e-mail

By Andy Walker. When SPAM is no longer is tasty snack, we show you how to take a bite out of SPAM e-mails.

15• FAQ: How to stop spam

By Andy Walker. Spam is an email annoyance that plagues us all.

16• Get high-speed modem up to speed

By Andy Walker. Learn here about latency, how it affects your high-speed modem, and how to adjust for it.

17• Blog your world to the world

By Chris Ricci. No matter where you are and what you're doing, you can tell your story - and even talk to people who agree (or disagree) with you.

18• WiMAX comes calling

By Andy Walker. First came DSL and cable Internet to provide high speed Internet to your home.

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20• Blogs give you a voice on the web

By Lucy Zhao. Bloggers should decide what they want to say first, and how they want to say it, second .

21• Should the web be like a family reunion?

By Andy Walker. You don't have to share your personal information with a site just because it tries to get it from you.

22• Imagine if your cat had an ip address

By Andy Walker. IPv6 is coming, and wow, that's a lot of numbers.

23• Going wireless with a cell phone and modem in 1997

By Andy Walker. Ready to hit the road and want to stay in touch? You can use your cell phone with your laptop to connect (almost) any time.

24• Have gadgets, will travel

By Andy Walker. It used to be we'd travel out of eagerness to see new places and meet new people.

25• No need for a firewall when you use a dial-up modem.

By Andy Walker. Dial-up users aren't very susceptible to hacker attacks, so don't generally need firewall software.

26• Software helps you sort out fax, phone problems

By Andy Walker. You can receive phone calls and use your fax machine on one line.

27• Send garbage where it belongs

By Chris Ricci. Get rid of software you won't need to reclaim precious hard drive space.

28• How to shop for an Internet connection

By Andy Walker. It's time to connect to the Internet.

29• How can I tell if an e-mail has been received?

By Andy Walker. Have you ever e-mailed someone, and sat there wondering whether the e-mail was received? Here's a handy trick for checking the status of the e-mail you sent, and to help you decide whether you even should.

30• LabRats #096: How to stay safe on the road

By Cyberwalker staff. A primer on how to keep your data to yourself in spaces where anyone can read over your shoulder.

31• ISPs under hacker attacks

By Andy Walker. Internet hackers have the ability to slow or shut down websites through an attack called a "denial of service".

32• Big files no big deal

By Chris Ricci. With files we create getting bigger and bigger, and the number of people we want to share them with increasing, too, we get back to the old question: how do we do it? In fact, it's quite simple.

33• Modem speed is not limited by the pace of your processor.

By Andy Walker. Getting a speedier modem won't mean needing a faster processor, but it might mean needing a faster serial port.

34• Making sense of 56K modems

By Andy Walker. High-speed modems can be confusing to even the most computer literate person.

35• Higher-speed data communication comes with a price

By Andy Walker. Newer technologies always come with a hefty price tag, and high speed Internet connections are no exception.

36• Blame clients for service they don't get

By Chris Ricci. Customers often don't know what they want, and they won't stop whining until they get it, technicians complain in this, the second part of a two-part expose of customer - support relationship.

37• Need help? Is help desk your best bet?

By Chris Ricci. Computer users often whine about the uselessness of technical support they would have expected to be swift, qualified and courteous.

38• Taking your files on the road

By Chris Ricci. You may be moving all over the world, and your files stay put.

39• Network protocols can be a headache.

By Andy Walker. Here's some inside info about your dial-up modem to improve your connection time.

40• WinFax v8.03 distinctive ring solution

By Andy Walker. It is possible to have different distinctive rings for your modem so you can tell whether it's a phone call or a fax machine on the line.

41• Making your modem release a failed connection

By Andy Walker. Whether your phone modem's internal or external, you can control when it gives up on a connection that never was.

42• G-mail takes on the world

By Chris Ricci. The more e-mail accounts, the merrier, and Google's g-mail is making it all happen.

43• SpeedUpMyPC 2.0 - Review

By Andy Walker. Is your PC feeling kind of slow, give it a boost with SpeedUpMyPC 2.

44• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 028

By staff. October 24th, 2006: Little Geeks, Spyware, Upgrading Monitors and Media Players.