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The Dark Side of the Internet

In an online world of millions of people, there are bad guys and dishonest individuals. They can deceive you just by knowing a little more technology than you. So how do you defend against Internet bad guys? About.com explains here...

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Is Chasing Cybercriminals Worth the Effort?

Monday March 8, 2010
According to John Sutter at CNN, there is a growing sentiment that "it is futile to chase down online bad guys". While it is relatively easy to catch low-level cybercrooks, big arrests of cybercrime masterminds are rare. But what are we to do as an online society? Well, John Sutter offers some crime-prevention thoughts worth considering...

10 Best Websites of the Last Decade

Saturday March 6, 2010

Have you heard of Yelp? Hulu? Flickr? These are some of the websites that have distinguished themselves during these last 10 years. Demonstrating sound website design, as well as exemplary online service, here are the 10 Best Websites of the 2000's...

The Most Addictive Time Waster Websites of 2010

Friday March 5, 2010

These websites are more than just curious for 15 minutes... these websites have an infectious appeal that will potentially suck you in for hours at a time. If you fancy yourself as self-disciplined, we challenge you to not get hooked on some of the Best Time Waster Web Sites on the Internet...

My Downloaded Movie Has No Picture! What's Wrong?

Friday March 5, 2010

You've just downloaded an .avi or .mpg movie from the Internet. You double-click to launch it, but all you get is sound with no picture. Your media player lets you listen to it, but there are no visuals. Well, if this annoyance has happened to you, chances are you are doing everything correctly, but you are missing a "codec" converter to play the video. Codecs are annoying, but they are a fact of Internet life. Take two minutes to learn about codecs, and download the fix here...you'll have your movie playing in no time!

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