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Tech No Phobia - Episode 1.4

Tech-No-Phobia

Tech No Phobia airs on Cox Cable channel 9 every Tuesday at 5:30pm MST and repeats on Saturdays at 4:00pm MST.

- Quick Tip: Ctrl-Enter

- Gaming Console comparison

- Lan Parties

- Web Cam caller question: Does the !00000 trick work?

- Removing Spyware

- Making web images your wallpaper

- Personal Firewalls

Resources

Quick Tip: Ctrl-Enter
If you use Internet Explorer to surf the Net, you can save time and keystrokes by just typing the main part of the web address and hitting Ctrl-Enter. You don't need to type in the 'http://' and the '.com' if you use the shortcut. For instance, to get to our website, type datadoctors in the address section, hold down the Ctrl button then hit Enter!

(This only works in Microsoft browsers and sites that end in .com)

Gaming Console comparison
One of the hottest items on the market (electronically speaking) is the gaming console. There are three major products; Nintendo's GameCube, Sony's Playstation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox.

All three products provide an excellent gaming experience but there are major differences in what they can do, what options are available and what you will have to buy in order to complete the system.

Get lot's of great info on buying game consoles at this site.

If you like to play online games and you have COX High-Speed Internet, your best choice would be the Xbox because of the new Xbox Live program!

Learn more about LAN parties at:

The Computer Gaming Association of Arizona

LanParty.com

Does the !00000 trick work to fight e-mail viruses?
Many of you may have recieved an e-mail message from a friend suggesting that you add !0000 as an entry in your address book to twart e-mail viruses, but does it work? Find out here!

Removing Spyware from your computer!
Many of today's Internet downloads come with hidden programs that spy on users and sends information back to a marketing server. You may be suprised how many programs you have installed in your system right at this moment! You can track down and KILL these programs with a free download from LavaSoft called Ad-Aware!

Use a personal firewall program to make yourself invisible on the Internet!
Since the Internet is nothing more than a huge network that connects us to 300 million other computers, you may want to create a buffer between you and the rest of the world with a firewall program such as Zone Alarm.

Trivial Tech Term

Lan Party: A party where computer gamers get together and connect their computers on a Local Area Network or LAN to play games as a group.

By connecting the systems directly to each other, the game play is much faster and you can trash talk other participants.

Tip of the Week

Grab any image on the Internet and make it your wallpaper!: Are you tired of looking at the same old background on your Desktop? Want to put something more interesting up as your wallpaper? Well, here is a simple way to grab almost any image that you find on the Internet and make it your wallpaper!

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