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“Umm…Spyware…? What is it? ” is the most common remark I hear from people around when they hear about the term. But do they know that the same thing may exist on their computers and cause privacy issues and losses to themselves? Yes, most people are unaware what a spyware is and how much harm they can do. I know it’s not justified to expect common people to have knowledge who aren’t computer geeks and just want to be concerned the things they use daily on their PC and nothing else. But yes, experienced computer techies like us have the responsibility to educate them and discuss with them regarding stuff such as spyware …

Intel introduced the RAMBus memory standard in their later Pentium 3 series and continued it in their Pentium P4 lineup. RAMBus Corporation was originally an independent company who developed RAMBus RAMs or RDRAMs. Though RDRAM technology didn’t show up good results initially, in the 1GHz+ CPU Pentium III platform, it did quite well on the then newer Pentium 4 platform which required more memory bandwidth the traditional PC133 SDRAMs could not provide.

Only dual channel RDRAM could feed a Pentium 4’s bandwidth needs. Unlike DDR, purchasing RDRAM is a little more tedious. Users of RDRAM must buy them in matching pairs in order to use them properly, this because of their 16 bit serial …

Computer and stand-alone copiers, printers and multifunction devices are now quite common at homes, SOHO, workplaces, organizations and offices. They have become an integral part of our digital life. Remember the golden days of typewriters… how tiresome and slow they were? Truly, these modern electronic printing devices have made our life easy and help get things printed and copied fast; often at blazing speeds of over 20 pages per minute!

As with every single appliance we can think of, printing devices have some recurring maintenance costs to be incurred if you want to use the devices to their full potential. Printing and copying supplies like inkjet cartridges, laser and copier …

How often did you realize that having a nifty little tool that automatically cleans and deletes all history of URLs visited, cookies, cache, opened files list, temporary files and such other junk at one click of a mouse would have been better? Well, there’s a completely free tool available for years now called “Disk Cleaner”.

Disk Cleaner is a small, self-contained, open-source and robust program available for windows which can clean all the above mentioned junk not only for windows system programs, IE, media player, etc. but also has support for many other 3rd. party programs like opera browser, firefox, winamp and more. This is achieved through plugins bundled along with the …

MS Outlook and Outlook Express are among the most popular email client softwares used today. Like normal files and data, backing up your important emails and email account settings is also a good practice. Sometimes, you need moving entire email folders and accounts while migrating to a new PC; hence arises the need for outlook email backup softwares.

I’ve been using MS Outlook express for years and have set up scheduled tasks to automatically backup all my emails every Sunday and save it to the backup hard disk in compressed form; so that I may restore it anytime there’s a need. I have thousands of important emails and without backing them up regularly, I dunno what …