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  • Tip of the Week: Advanced iTunes 8 Management 
  • Headwhack of the Week:Make your scroll wheel work in every window 
  • Geek Speak of the Week: Sneaker
  • Security: MacBook Users - Turn off this setting now! 
  • News: An Expert's guide to YouTube 
  • News: TREKnology: Where we've boldly gone, gadget-wise 
  • Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Those pesky error messages 
  • Opinion: How the Apple 'iPad' could kill the Kindle 
  • Weekly Advice Column: Syncing bookmarks across browsers 
  • This Week's Show: Understanding hackers to better protect yourself 

Tip of the Week: Advanced iTunes 8 Management

PCMag.com understands the plight of most avid music fans when it comes to managing all that content on a computer. They have put together a series of tips to get a better handle on that overloaded, multi-computer, multi-gadget music library of yours.

Headwhack of the Week: Make Your Scroll Wheel Work in Every Window

There's something broken in Windows. (Insert your own joke here.)

Specifically, mouse-wheel scrolling doesn't work the way it should, by which I mean you can't just point your cursor inside a window and start scrolling.

Instead, you have to click in that window first to bring it into "focus."

PCWorld.com has a slick solution for what sounds like a minor issue, but has major usability improvements.

Geek Speak of the Week: Sneaker

An individual hired to break into places in order to test the security. Many 'sneaker' services now exist for businesses that want to know where they might be vulnerable from a technology standpoint.

Security: MacBook Users - Turn off this setting now!

Brian X. Chen of Wired.com writes: Last night I discovered an incredibly dumb - and what I consider to be dangerous - setting enabled by default in my unibody MacBook Pro. In the Bluetooth preferences, it's the box checkmarked "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer." Sounds innocent enough, but it could've killed my computer.

News: An expert's guide to YouTube

Video-sharing site YouTube is massively popular and incredibly simple to use, but also has a few powerful features that are tucked away. This guide is to help you learn how to use some of these advanced features and to serve as a simple reference page.

News: TREKnology: Where we've boldly gone, gadget-wise

In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once within the realms of strictly Science Fiction.

Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Those pesky error messages

We talk about this on the radio show virtually every week and it's how most technical people figure out what is wrong when you get 'those pesky error messages'!

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 the Apple 'iPad' could kill the Kindle

On the heals of the announcement of the next generation Kindle e-Book reader from Amazon, Sascha Segan of PCMag.com warns that Apple's much-rumored iPad could trounce the Kindle DX. Amazon won't mind, but the magazine industry will.

Weekly Advice Column: Syncing bookmarks across browsers

If you are like most avid Internet surfers, not only are you likely to use multiple computers, you're probably using one of various browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari depending upon which machine and which sites you are surfing.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a bookmark that is created in one automatically appear in the others?

This Week's Show: Understanding hackers to better protect yourself

The term 'hacker' these days tends to generate negative images in the minds of most computer users, but it wasn't always that way.

Hackers, in general, are very curious about technology and they enjoy exploring the inner depths of programming code and hardware functions to see what else can be done with it.

Malicious hackers are more focused and organized these days as the value of their actions has increased exponentially.

Understanding the hacker mentality can be very helpful in defending yourself against their exploits, so this week we take a deep dive into the world of hacking.

Listen in as The Data Doctors discuss the motivations, methods and madness of the hacking world to educate you on prevention.

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