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1• Record your LP records as MP3 files

By Jonathan Walker. There's no reason why you can't listen to your vinyl import of the Beatles' White Album on your iPod.

2• All about MP3 and WMA files: A digital audio primer

By Andy Walker / Jonathan Walker. Using your digital music files is easier and more fun when you understand the big picture, which Cyberwalker explains here.

3•  How to add USB 2.0 to your PC

By Andy Walker. Can you use a newer USB device on an older USB port? Read this article to find out.

4• A guide to those weird ports on the back of your computer

By Andy Walker. Don't be intimidated by all the different connections on the back of your computer.

5• IEEE 1394

By Andy Walker. Find out just what IEEE 1394 is.

6• The future of chip technology

By Andy Walker. Moore's Law has about a decade before chipmakers start running out of ways to miniaturize silicon wafers, but new non-silicon chips may save the day.

7•  MP3 music on the Internet: A user's guide

By Andy Walker. There are tons of places online to download MP3 music files.

8• Internet by satellite dish is an option for Canada and U.S.

By Andy Walker. If you can't get broadband via DSL or cable modem, maybe you can have a connection beamed to you from space.

9• How to remove fonts

By Andy Walker. Do you absolutely have to keep every single version of every single font on your computer? Not necessarily.

10• How to buy a laptop in 2004

By Andy Walker. Here are a few buying tips to think about before you spend your well-earned money on one.

11• Keeping your data safe

By Peter Ehm. Since the time of tapes or unending boxes of floppies all the way to storing critical data on alternate media, our lives have become safer.

12• TMP files: A necessary evil?

By Chris Ricci. They slow you down, but deciding which ones have to go and where to find them isn't an easy proposition.

13• How to fool e-mail worms and stop them cold

By Andy Walker. Sometimes there are little tricks you can do to keep viruses at bay, but are they worth it?.

14• MP3 music on the net: a user's guide

By Andy Walker. MP3s are a hot topic in the computer world.

15• How to buy a laptop in 2005

By Andy Walker. Laptops have come a long way since they orginally came out.

16• Upgraded 486 will never perform like a Pentium

By Andy Walker. No one wants to hear these words, but sometimes it's the plain truth.

17• Imagine if your cat had an ip address

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

18• Inkjet and laser: a printer primer

By Peter Ehm. As we've entered the self-service era in photography, it's important to know whether we prefer inkjet or laser printer.

19• Wired ride

By Andy Walker. Intelligent tools and new technologies are making the driving experience safer, more productive for the business person, and more fun for the folks in the backseat.

20• Applications ignore one another

By Chris Ricci. Office programs are often incompatible, but you can now get around the challenge.

21•  Old DOS disk works on Windows, but it's risky

By Andy Walker. Many of us have old software lying around from earlier operating systems.

22• Get organized with a handheld computer

By Andy Walker. Need to get organized, and need some advice of which hand-held will help you reach your goals? This guide will help you decide which hand-held computer is best for you.

23• Log on to the millennium at GigaHertz speed

By Andy Walker. Should you get what is available now or wait for what's new in the next year?.

24• Too many fonts?

By Andy Walker. Maybe you just want to be able to manage them better.

25• How to clean your computer

By Andy Walker. A how to on keeping system damaging dirt down to a minimum.

26• Get two monitors working side-by-side

By Chris Ricci. It takes a bit of work, but you need not dump your old CRT display.

27• Transferring tips on buses

By Andy Walker. The data in your computer is moved around inside the machine via "buses".

28• Cool computer can stay turned on

By Andy Walker. You need to keep your computer clean and cool if you want a 24-hour always-on system.

29• Cheating your way through life: 1

By Chris Ricci. Gaming, music and video industries try to protect their property, but hackers beat their systems hands down: Part 1.

30• ASCII files aren't mysteries - in fact, they're great.

By Andy Walker. ASCII: It's not the code name for the next space mission.

31• Programming languages are like building crews.

By Andy Walker. Of all the programming languages, which one is most desirable in the work place? It depends on what kind of work you'd be doing.

32• Ding dong the PDA is dead

By Andy Walker. Is that a computer on your wrist? .

33• OLED said Fred

By Andy Walker. OLED is a new wave in consumer electronics, and furniture, and clothing, and automobiles.

34• Viruses now a money maker

By Andy Walker. Progress reaches the underground world: virus and other malicious software writers get paid to sell their stuff so criminals can abuse computer users big and small more efficiently.

35• Remember iPhone, it's worth it

By Andy Walker. Apple unveils a smart phone that has got most of the things a computer geek on the go needs, and then some.

36• We need more power like we need last year's snow

By Chris Ricci. Computer and software makers develop new products not to improve humankind's lot but, rather, to improve their balance sheets.

37• There are ways to fight cyber criminals

By Andy Walker. From identity theft through abuse of your e-mail system, and then some, there seem to be no bounds to computer criminals' weird imaginations.

38• Where is my wearable computer?

By Peter Ehm. PDAs weren't it, and they died a painful death by user indifference.

39• How to attract an office geek

By Andy Walker. Finally a woman has found a geek attractive.

40• LabRats #011-2 at Macworld: Mac ware for the masses

By Cyberwalker Staff. Exhibits at Macworld include some stunning hardware, as well as interesting software.

41• Games people play

By Jason Kerluck. Computer games have become part and parcel of today's computerized culture, but players should be aware of their rating: some of them are good for kids, others aren't.

42• Summertime - and the living is easy

By Chris Ricci. New web sites offer would-be travelers the chance to tailor their plans according to their personalities and innermost wishes.

43• FAQ: Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Outlook Express

By Andy Walker. The latest update to Windows XP comes in the form of Service Pack 2.



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