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<description><![CDATA[Leo Notenboom has been in the tech industry for nearly 30 years. After retiring from an 18 year career as a Microsoft Software Engineer Leo went on to create Ask Leo!, a free web site where he answers real questions from ordinary computer users. In addition to answering tech questions Leo also maintains a number of web sites for a very limited client?le.]]></description>
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<title>How to Keep Data on Your Laptop Secure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Understandably, the biggest fear most people have about losing their laptops, is not actually centered on the laptop itself. The biggest fear is having sensitive information end up in the wrong hands. Most can handle the material loss, but all that data in the hands of malicious individuals is scary!]]></description>
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<title>3 Simple Ways to Maximize Your Laptop's Battery Life</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:09:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The original title of this article was going to be something along the lines of "Why does my laptop's battery life suck?" because that is exactly the question most of us ask once our battery life starts getting shorter and shorter. It isn't uncommon to find an old laptop that has a lifespan of about 20 minutes. They are basically nothing more than an expensive Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS). This seriously limits the laptop's portability. ]]></description>
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<title>How Do I Keep People From Finding Me on the Internet?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:47:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Do you wish you could erase yourself from the internet? In other words, do you want to stop your name and information from showing up when people Google or search for you on the internet? Sadly, you're not alone. Not only is this disappointingly complex to do, ultimately... you can't.]]></description>
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<title>Say No Thank You to New Toolbar - Opt Out During the Installation Process</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:01:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a new toolbar suddenly "appear" in your browser? Although it might not seem like you agreed to install it, the likelihood is that you did. One of the most frustrating strategies companies use to deploy more toolbars relies on your not paying close attention when installing software or other programs on your computer.]]></description>
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<title>Virus Infection? Don't Buy a New Computer Because of It</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:33:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you've never been infected with a computer virus, it is likely you know someone who has. They are real, nasty threats that can destroy information on your computer. You might "catch" them by downloading illegal files, opening a bad attachment, or surprisingly enough, clicking on bogus browser pop ups that warn you've been infected. It can be a frustrating and time consuming process to get the viruses removed.]]></description>
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<title>The Overlooked Risks of Staying Logged In</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:49:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Have you ever checked your e-mail on a friend's computer, public computer, or even display model at the store, only to wonder later if that was a wise move? Is your information safe, or can someone use cookies to retrieve your log in information and access your account? It depends on what webmail service you're using. But regardless, you may very well be at risk with any account that requires you to login.]]></description>
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<title>Remote Access Support - Is it Worth the Risk?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:58:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Typically when you call a software company or computer manufacturer to fix a problem they rely on you to describe what is wrong and then work with you to troubleshoot the problem over the phone. This can often get quite confusing. Frequently these days, and with your permission, many such support desks can use remote access technology to view and even use your computer as you watch to solve your problem directly. This is certainly very convenient, but is it safe?]]></description>
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<title>Online Safety - Stay Safe While Enjoying the Ride</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an ideal world, you wouldn't have to worry about online safety. You wouldn't have to worry about others on the network trying to steal, harm, or infect your computers with malicious viruses or spyware. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world. The days have passed where you can safely use the computer, browse the Internet and not be concerned about online security.]]></description>
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<title>Is This File Safe to Delete?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, you'll want to delete unwanted files to free up space on your hard drive. It is usually easy to choose which.jpg,.doc or.xls documents to throw away. However, what about the many gigabytes of.dat files? Are these safe to delete, or will it cause your computer to crash? The following article lists four steps that can help determine when any file type is safe to delete.]]></description>
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<title>Recovery Vs Installation Disks - What You'll Need If Your Hard Drive Crashes</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:23:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are you prepared if your hard drive crashes? Your recovery disk has helped you recover from certain types of failures. However is it always enough, or do you need an installation disk as well?]]></description>
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<title>Can You Be Traced by Your Email Address?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:39:17 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you communicate with people or post online, chances are you don't think twice about sharing your email address. But should you? Is there a way your phone number and address can be tracked by someone who only has your email address? The short answer is yes.]]></description>
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<title>Using Twitter Can Get You Spammed - Don't Tweet Your Email</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:19:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people using Twitter will include their email address in a tweet - perhaps letting others know how to reach them to continue a conversation or send a message that just doesn't fit in 140 characters. Unfortunately including your email address in a tweet is a very bad idea. The reason is a very simple and age-old (in internet terms) problem: spam.]]></description>
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<title>The Best Anti-Spyware and Anti-Virus Still Can't Protect You From Dancing Bunnies</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You may wonder what anti-spyware program to use or which anti-virus program is the most effective. There are many good anti-spyware and anti-virus tools out there but it's extremely important to remember that there is no perfect solution. All of these anti-malware programs will miss things that others may catch.]]></description>
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<title>How Safe is Your Data If Your Computer Gets Stolen?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When working with computers for any length of time, it's inevitable that you will experience a disaster of some sort. There's the crash that happens just before a document is saved. The failure that renders a disk unreadable. In addition it's important not only to backup your data for yourself, but also protect yourself from data loss in the form of theft by making sure that your sensitive data is encrypted and inaccessible to prying eyes.]]></description>
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<title>What Happens to Your Data If Your House Burns Down?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:54:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You probably already understand the importance of backing up and even encrypting your sensitive data. And while losing your data is bad, having your sensitive personal data in the hands of a thief can be even worse. But What happens to all your backups and computers if your house burns to the ground? Or a flood damages everything? Or a mudslide buries it in goo? Or an earthquake levels it?]]></description>
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<title>Secure Delete - Do You Need It?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Secure Delete makes sure that when you delete a file it can't be recovered. Understanding Secure Delete is important to protect your data properly. Depending on your level of healthy paranoia and the sensitivity of your data, plain old "delete" may not always be enough.]]></description>
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<title>Viruses - How to Keep Yourself Safe</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:05:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you use a computer at all, chances are that at some point you've been effected by a virus. If you were lucky, the virus may have just been an annoying setback to your day, but if you weren't so lucky you may have lost all of your data... or your bank account information... or even your identity. Computer viruses are a threat to everyone. So to lessen our risk of infection, we must not be complacent- we must take steps to make sure that our computers are safe.]]></description>
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<title>Secure Your Data With Backups and Encryption</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Anyone who regularly uses computers has experienced a disaster of some sort. Either your computer crashes just before you save your document to disk, or in the worst case a computer failure renders your disk unreadable. While you might think that hard disks don't fail very often, it happens much more often than you think.]]></description>
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<title>Staying Connected on the Road</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:43:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fortunately, mobile connectivity has improved dramatically in the last several years. Whether you are using Wi-Fi or Ethernet, you have many options to choose from.]]></description>
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<title>Three Quick Steps to Remove and Avoid Spyware</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:59:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Spyware is a modern scourge that's easily among the top 5 computer security concerns. Some forms that actually spy on you live up to the name "spyware", while others can infect almost like viruses; hijacking your browser and causing havoc on your computer.]]></description>
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<title>7 Simple Steps to Keeping Your Account From Being Hacked</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:38:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hackers are extremely resourceful at guessing and ferreting out those all-too-common password schemes. And sometimes it's not even the hackers that end up with your passwords. Here are seven key steps to keeping an account from being hacked due to simple and common password theft.]]></description>
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<title>Giving Away Your Computer? Don't Give Away Your Identity</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:20:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When you're about to give away or donate your computer or hard drive, there are important steps you need to take to ensure you're not including personal or sensitive information as an added bonus. Unerased information is an easy source of information for potential identity theft.]]></description>
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<title>Common Error Messages in Email Bounces and What to Do About Them</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:34:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are so many reasons email can bounce that sometimes it's amazing that email works at all.  But work it does, at least most of the time, and one of the ways it works are those bounce messages that you get. There's gold in that bounce message. It's not only telling you that your message didn't go through, but if you look a little closer, you'll see it's trying to tell you why, albeit not always clearly.]]></description>
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<title>Embrace Change For a Better Computing Experience</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:33:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Change, as they say, is inevitable. That's nowhere more true than it comes to personal computers. It seems that not a week goes by where something about your computer or it's software doesn't change. Accepting and even embracing change will make your computing experience a whole lot more enjoyable, and effective.]]></description>
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<title>Resolve to Do the One Thing That Can Save You From Almost Any Computer Disaster</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:41:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's one thing that you can do that almost guarantees you'll never face the catastrophic loss of your important computer files including photos, documents, emails and more. That simple thing is backing up. A good backup can allows you to recover from almost any computer related disaster. Backups don't have to be confusing and complicated, and for the home and small business can be downright simple.]]></description>
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<title>Many Surprising Options to Giving Computer Related Gifts in a Tight Economy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:23:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Even in a tight economy as people tighten their belts and look for alternatives to the more expensive gifts, computers, and perhaps more timely, computer accessories are more popular than ever, even for the budget minded.  If you're considering a computer-related gift, there are many budget friendly approaches to giving your favorite computer user a useful and appreciated gift.]]></description>
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<title>The Myth and the Truth of the IP Address Tracing</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many people are under the misconception that it's easy to trace the physical location of computer on the internet using an IP address and thereby identify the computer's user. The truth is that while location tracing is in fact possible. The myth is that it's easy. Tracing an IP address to a location requires more access and information than is available to the general public. The average person will need help.]]></description>
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<title>Surviving the Inevitable - 7 Steps to Avoiding Technology Disasters You Might Not Have Considered</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:50:45 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Technology disasters come in all shapes and sizes and many businesses are unprepared for them. From something as simple as hard disk failure to something as significant as an emergency affecting critical community infrastructure, disasters are difficult to predict, and often catastrohpic when they occur.  Planning for almost any kind of disaster frequently boils down to a handful of steps you might already be famliar with used in ways you might not have considered.  Steps that can help make sure your business large or small survives in the face of unexpected adversity.]]></description>
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<title>Online Shopping - Is It Safe?</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:55:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many computer users are concerned about personal security and identity theft. With regular news of theft and fraud it certainly makes sense to be cautious about the security of your information online. However online is not the only place to exercise caution. The fact is that identity theft and fraud are just as rampant off-line as in cyberspace - perhaps even more so. You should perhaps be more concerned about the security of your information in the "real world".]]></description>
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<title>English - Making the Difference Between Good and Great</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 11:30:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good communication skills can make the difference between being good at a job and being great at it. Nowhere is that reflected more than in written communication.  The written word is often our first and often only impression, and the difference between appearing as an undereducated teenager or a competent professional can turn on your ability to express yourself well.]]></description>
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<title>Out Of Office? Don't Advertise It</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:15:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Automated out of office replies are a convenient way to let people know that you might not be able to respond to their messages in a timely fashion due to vacation, illness, travel or just about any reason that might keep you away from your email. Unfortunately using out of office responses also has several significant issues that far outweigh the benefits. Use them with extreme caution, if at all.]]></description>
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<title>Email Hoaxes, Urban Legends and Scams - Don't be Part of the Problem</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:20:28 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It seems not a day goes by that an email arrives in our inbox after having been forwarded several times warning about or asking for something, and asks us to forward the message on as well. Nine times out of ten these are email hoaxes, scams and urban legends. It's not that difficult to determine if they're legit, but most should simply be ignored. Forwarding to all your friends is typically the exact wrong thing to do. ]]></description>
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<title>Relying on Free Email Services - A Recipe For Disaster</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:32:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Free email services have become incredibly popular over the last decade. They're quick and easy to set up, ubiquitously accessible, and best of all, free!  Unfortunately relying too heavily on free email services can lead to disaster.]]></description>
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<title>Stay Safe Online - 7 + 1 Steps to Internet Safety and Security For Your PC</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:42:37 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Internet safety seems like an oxymoron these days with all the threats aimed at our computers. Staying safe online doesn't have to be difficult, and this article covers the basic steps that every computer user should take.]]></description>
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