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1• Need a boot disk? Why? How?

By Andy Walker. If you're reinstalling your operating system, you may very well need a boot disk.

2• Reformat and Reinstall: FAQs

By Andy Walker. Reformatting and reinstalling: What? When? Why? Where? How? You're in the right place for the answers to those questions and more.

3• How to add a slave drive

By Andy Walker. Don't be baffled by those tiny switches (and their tiny labels) on your computer's case.

4•  How to add a second hard drive

By Andy Walker. Need more hard drive space? Cyberwalker will tell you how to add more!.

5• How to defragment your computer's hard drive

By Andy Walker. Part of your computer housekeeping should be to run Disk Defragmenter regularly.

6• Good old DOS to the rescue

By Andy Walker. Rebuild your Master Boot Record and keep your computer running.

7• What's inside a computer?

By Andy Walker. Not exactly sure what makes your computer work? All those parts seem too complicated to understand? This article will help you understand what makes a computer go.

8• Emergency Tech Support

By Andy Walker. Having trouble with your computer? No fear! Tech support is available from Cyberwalker.

9• Need to send a huge file? Shrink it!

By Andy Walker. Sending large e-mail attachments has never been easier.

10• Free up space on your hard drive: FAQ

By Andy Walker. You can recoup large amount of space if you know exactly what you can delete from your hard drive.

11• 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.

12• How to buy a small business PC

By Andy Walker. A business's computer needs are different from a home's.

13• Ready, aim, snap - and edit

By Chris Ricci. A host of photo editing suites is available via the web.

14• Carry your world in your pocket

By Chris Ricci. Storing a computer's worth of data, moving it from computer to computer, has become a snap.

15• Bigger is always better when buying hard drives

By Andy Walker. When you shop for a hard drive, shop for more than you need right this minute.

16• 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.

17• Computer Basics: What is inside a computer?

By Andy Walker. If you are new to computing, all those parts inside a computer may be really intimidating.

18• Computer Basics for Newcomers to Computers

By Andy Walker. We all need to start learning at the beginning.

19• How to buy a small business computer in 2003

By Andy Walker. Purchasing a computer for a small business poses its own set of unique problems.

20• A remote control of your dreams

By Chris Ricci. It's not for those who can't program a VCR, but for even a borderline geek, this is a dream-come-true device.

21• Portable player gone wild

By Chris Ricci. An FM tuner, a memory card AND a television screen? That's future that's happening today.

22•  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.

23• Tips for the rookie scanner

By Andy Walker. So you've decided to buy yourself a scanner - congratulations! This article will help you go from scanning rookie to pro.

24• The skinny on digital cameras

By Andy Walker. Purchasing a digital camera? Got questions? That's how it should be.

25• Zipping through computer world

By Andy Walker. Even the biggest hard drive or the fastest connection aren't big or fast enough for some huge files.

26• Computer myths: legends or truth?

By Peter Ehm. Some of the stories sound logical, and they might have been.

27• How to get rid of hard drive garbage

By Peter Ehm. Obsolete data slows computers down to a crawl.

28• Pick a laptop to suit your needs

By Andy Walker. They come in all shapes and colors, but a smart buyer knows there are other points to consider before shelling out their hard-earned dollar.

29• Windows 95 backup meant for files

By Andy Walker. Backing up your data is essential.

30• So you want a web site of your own?

By Chris Ricci. If you think you've got something to say to the world, or something to sell to the world, doing it online might be your best bet.

31• HDTV format war: whose side to take?

By Peter Ehm. Blu-ray and HDTV have both their pluses and minuses.

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

By Andy Walker. Can you use DOS disks on your Win95 machine? Possible - Yes.

33• iPod can carry loads of data

By Chris Ricci. It takes just a bit of shuffling to organize your music, but once you're done, you can't beat the price-per-GB of storage the iPod offers.

34• How to clean your computer

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

35• FAT facts for partitioners

By Andy Walker. For those who are curious what FAT or FAT32 is, here you go.

36• 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.

37• Windows 98: Not as scary as many fear.

By Andy Walker. With each new OS comes some apprehension, which is normal.

38• Camera with bells and whistles

By Chris Ricci. Casio comes up with a versatile camera that does more than just take pictures.

39• Program helps you slice files into manageable bits.

By Andy Walker. As programs and other files get bigger, it gets harder to save them to disks.

40• Cyberwalker Radio Episode 036

By . January 16th, 2006: Highlights from CES, and listener questions.

41• What to know before you compress your hard drive.

By Andy Walker. Before you run DriveSpace, think about whether you're more concerned with your hard drive's capacity or its speed.

42• LabRats #082: Perpendicular storage, eh?

By Cyberwalker Staff. Perpendicular storage technology does exactly what it says it will do: by storing information in perpendicular rather than horizontal fashion, it helps increase your hard disk's volume without increasing its size.

43• 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.

44• Taking your files on the road

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

45• More power is what a modern computer user needs

By Andy Walker. A computer that will do all our work, giving us more time to be creative, is the machine of a modern human being's dreams.

46• iPod not the the only game in town

By Andy Walker. Individual features may be similar, but it's the combination of those features, and the resulting quality with price considerations included, that distinguish digital music players amongst themselves.

47• FAQ: Windows XP SP2 and Windows Connect Now

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

48• Five must-have security applications

By Craig Worden and Jason Kerluck. Modern times can be exhaustingly happy, but they are also filled with risks.

49• FireWire: it's all about speed

By Peter Ehm. USB ports have been a staple in linking computers to peripherals and have them interact easier and faster than they used to.

50• Safe on the cheap

By Peter Ehm. There are some freeware security application titles that would give their most expensive siblings a good run for their money.



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