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December 2006

  • Changing Hard Drives
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  • Calendar January 2007
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  • Calendar December 2006
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • E-Mail: Be Less Annoying
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  • Fooled You ! — I Really Hope Not
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  • Free Up Megabytes of Disk Space
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • Getting Ready for Windows Vista
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  • General Meeting
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  • Great Games for the Holidays Are Here: Changes in Industry & Technology Overcome
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  • Happy "Gadgetholidays!"
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • IE7
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  • McGruff the Crime Dog Takes a Bite Out Of Cybercrime
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  • Practice Good “Netiquette” – Be a Good “Netizen”
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  • The Changing Face of Digital Photography
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • To Dual-Core or not to Dual-Core?
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  • Windows Vista on the Cusp
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  • Windows XP: Remote Assistance
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  • Windows Defender – Free Anti-Spyware from Microsoft
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    November 2006

  • APCUG
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  • Are You A Zombie? How About Your Computer?
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  • CNET Offers Free Online Technology Courses
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  • Calendar December 2006
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  • Calendar November 2006
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  • Coming to a Computer near You – Internet Explorer 7
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Earth Probe
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How Do I Get My Home Videos Into the Computer?
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  • Microsoft Vista Beta-First Look
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  • Move Over IE – Firefox 2 Is Here!
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  • Ram & Reason:Enter the Dragon:Comodo Free Desktop Security Tools
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  • Safeguarding Your Data
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  • Surprising New Search Engine
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • The Part of Backup Nobody Mentions
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  • U3 Drives
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    October 2006

  • Should Your System Be RAIDed
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  • BlueCoat’s K9 Web Protection
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  • My Spyware
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • Are You "Compuliterate?"
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  • General Meeting
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  • Microsoft Windows Vista
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  • Distinguishing Forests from Trees in Search Engine Results
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Calendar November 2006
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  • Calendar October 2006
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  • Comprehensive Computing Security with Trend Micro Internet Security Suite 2007
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Downloading a File
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  • Microsoft Offers FREE Online Office Training
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  • Digital Resolution Made Confusing
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  • Free Utilities to Clean Your Registry and Improve Performance
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  • BASICS
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  • Solve Computer Problems with Canonical Lists of Free Software
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    September 2006

  • A Lot of Assembly Required
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  • Are You Concerned About Loss of Personal Data?
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  • Back to School Computing
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  • Basic DVD Recording
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  • Calendar October 2006
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  • Calendar September 2006
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  • CAPTCHA
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  • Computer Hysteria: Shhhhhhhhh!!
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Free Antivirus Protection
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  • Free Image Utilities for Your Computer
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Hard Drive Class Action Settlement and HP Recalls
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Quality Freeware
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  • Tech Corner – SP1 Abandoned in the Fall
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  • Useful FREE Programs to Clean Your Files and Email
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  • Windows XP and Speech Recognition
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  • XP or Vista?
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    August 2006

  • Calendar August 2006
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  • Calendar September 2006
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  • CERT Publishes Home Network Security Guidelines
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  • Choose Your Own “Home Page”
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • eBay Warns of Phishing and Identity Theft
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How to know what’s in a file or folder before you open it
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  • Legal Bytes: Do Shield Laws Extend to Bloggers?
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  • Managing Device Drivers
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  • PayPal and Pump and Dump Scams – Redeaux
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • Tweaking Windows' Taskbar
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  • Windows Vista; A Preview
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  • “Suddenly…” Part 2
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    July 2006

  • Accessing Family Accounts in Cases of Emergency
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  • Backup Awareness Month
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  • Calendar August 2006
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  • Calendar July 2006
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  • Computer Hysteria: Pew
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  • Computing Q&A Board
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Essential Processes, How You Can Tell
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Internet Fraud
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  • Microsoft Streets and Trips 2006 with GPS
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  • Opera 9 Takes on Microsoft Internet Explorer
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  • Tech News
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • Web 2.0 and The Evolution of the Small Office/Home Office (soho)
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  • “Suddenly…”
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    June 2006

  • Calendar July 2006
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  • Calendar June 2006
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Gerry Says
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Microsoft Releases Information on Its New "VISTA" OS
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  • One-click Access to Frequently-Used Programs, Files and Folders
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  • Online Librarians Never Say Shhh!
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  • Printing Better Pictures
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  • RSS Explained
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  • Save The Internet
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  • Swissbit – Victorinox Do Everything USB, MP3 Swiss Army Knife
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  • Tech News
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  • Traveling With A Video Camcorder
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  • Web 2.0 and Portable Computing.
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  • Why Do You Get So Much Spam?
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    May 2006

  • AMD’s Visionary Gamble
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  • Back to the Future with System Restore
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  • British Government Promotes CyberSafety for All
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  • Calendar June 2006
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  • Calendar May 2006
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  • Computer Hysteria: The Sentence
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Getting the Most Viewing Space in the Internet Explorer Window
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  • Google Earth
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • New Hard Drives and XP Hard Drive Management Utility
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  • Organize Your Computer Media and Data Files
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  • Organizing the Favorites Menu
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  • TechNews
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • The SHADOW Knows Backups
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  • Windows XP Housecleaning
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    April 2006

  • Avoiding Security Risks
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  • Being Online Brings Coincidences and Lasting Trails
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  • Calendar April 2006
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  • Calendar May 2006
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  • Clear Reading With Cleartype
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Do I Have to Overwrite My Hard Drive Multiple Times?
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  • Do a clean sweep of your computer
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  • E-Mail...Overused, Abused & Invaluable
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Hard Disk Disasters
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How to Protect your Laptop and your Lap from Heat Build-up and Other Hazards
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  • Improving PC Performance Without Upgrading Your Hardware
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  • Interesting and Helpful Websites
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  • Junk Faxes – What Can Be Done About Them
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  • New Hard Drives and XP Hard Drive Management Utility
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  • Stop “BADWARE”
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  • The Future of Broadband Access
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • What Does a Cache Do For a Computer?
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  • What Is Spyware
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  • Why Settle, Do It Your Way
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    March 2006

  • An End to Computer Annoyances
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  • Anti-Spam Programs - Do They Really Work?
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  • Calendar April 2006
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  • Calendar March 2006
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How big is a 300 GB hard disk
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  • Is the Internet Insecure Because of You?
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  • Legal Bytes: Fair Use - Wherefore Art Thou Going?
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  • Multi-core Processors
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  • New Federal Website Provides Users with Internet Safety and Security Information
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  • System Mechanic 6 – Comprehensive Computer Maintenance and Safety Tools
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  • The Mouse from Hell
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  • The Shadow Knows
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    February 2006

  • A USB Primer
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  • Absence Makes the E-Mail Grow Fonder
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  • Anti-Spyware Basics
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  • Calendar February 2006
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  • Calendar March 2006
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  • Care and Feeding of CD's
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Free Computer Security Utilities from Gibson Research
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • New Federal Website Provides Users with Internet Safety and Security Information
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  • Online “My Family Health Portrait
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  • Optimizing Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, Xbox 360 and Media Center Extender Networks
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  • Play it straight: Avoid pirated software
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  • Protect and purge your personal files
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  • Sony BMG - Shame on You!
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  • Tech News
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  • Website Accessibility for Disabled Users
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  • What Your Computer Really Does When It's Idle
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    January 2006

  • Buying a PC for the Holidays
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  • Calendar February 2006
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  • Calendar January 2006
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  • Computer In A Smart House
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  • Configuring a Basic User's PC
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Don't be a loser at the rebate games
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • Informative Tech News
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  • Microsoft Publishes “Home Office Security Checklist”
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  • More Free Online Security Scans from Microsoft
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  • Ram & Reason: A Virus and Incident Checklist
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  • Safety on the Internet – an Online Guide
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  • Tech Books for Non-Dummies
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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  • Tid Bits
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  • Trend Micro Still Makes HouseCalls
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  • Where did all those photos go? File Management
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