Tip of the Week: Make things bigger on newer LCDs

Today's big widescreen LCD displays are fantastic, but for those with failing vision, the default resolution creates text that is smaller than is comfortable for many.

Reducing the resolution can make things bigger, but done wrong, it can dramatically degrade the display quality.

Lincoln Spector of PCWorld has some tips to "Effectively Lower Screen Resolution".

Headwhack of the Week: Recover from accidental closure

We've all done it...close a browser window accidentally that has lots of open sessions that you were using for your term paper or research project...AAAAAHHHHHH!

Well here's another reason to start using Mozilla's Firefox as your primary web browser.  With Firefox, if you accidentally close a tab or an entire browser session, you can quickly recover from the boneheaded click!

To restore sessions, click on the History menu option (at the top) and look towards the bottom for these two options:

Recently Closed Tabs

Recently Closed Windows

Geek Speak of the Week: Go primitive

Instead of keyboarding or texting a long and detailed story, picking up the phone to converse directly is the online equivalent of 'going primitive'.

Security: Koobface; not just attacking Facebook anymore

Koobface (a play on Facebook) was first discovered running amok on the popular social networking site Facebook and the worm got pretty crafty at taking over infected profiles.

Now it has expanded its evil deeds to many other types of Internet sites and networks so everyone needs to be on the watch for signs of this dasterdly nuisance.

Our friends at Webroot have posted a video demonstration of how the worm works as well as how it tries to trick surfers into becoming infected with its payloads...

News: Turning Your Coffee Table Into a Remote

Stock up on coasters! A new technology combines the coffee table with a universal remote so that people sitting around the table can tap on a screen to change the channel, turn up the volume or dim the lights.

News: Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML due to patent infringement...will it stick or will Microsoft have to pull out the checkbook?

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Is your PC ready for Win7? 

Windows 7 is on its way (October 22nd) and by most accounts, it's really worth considering.  If you have an older computer running Windows XP or a newer system that has Vista loaded, you'll want to know what's involved if you decide to upgrade to Windows 7!

Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com!  You can watch us live AT OUR NEW TIME every Wednesday afternoon at 2:30PM Pacific, 5:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at CNN.com/video.

Opinion:  How cheap computers cost the consumer   

"The American obsession with low-priced products - especially electronics - is actually bad for the individual consumer. According to one expert, the race to the bottom cramps innovation, speeds the decline of successful industries and alters our expectations of product quality" posts Andrew Nusca of ZDNet.com

Weekly Advice Column: Why data recovery is expensive

Losing your critical data files, pictures, music, video or business documents is an unfortunate reality for every computer user.  When you suffer a major crash or failure and you don't have a backup, your only option is to find a data recovery service to rescue you and your data.

Data recovery services are expensive regardless of how much information you want retrieved...here's why.

This Week's Show: How Back to School Tech Tips

Youngsters of every age are in the process of shaking off their late wakeup routines and heading back to school.

Whether you or your students are in elementary school or headed towards an MBA, technology is going to play a major role in scholastic life.

What should you do to make sure that old computer is ready for another year? What are some of the basics that everyone should consider? What websites might provide assistance for the upcoming avalanche of homework?

Listen in as the Data Doctors provide tips from A to Z for those that are headed Back To School!

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