Best Tips & Winners
Each month we select the best of the tips submitted by members of the PC Pitstop community.
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February 2011
PC Pitstop Newsletter – February 2011 #2
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Windows Secrets: Best Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts
One of the best ways to increase your computing productivity doesn’t cost a cent: learn the keyboard shortcuts for your most-used commands.
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Dodge Retort: Jeopardy, Watson go home
Over the past three nights, I have watched Watson, the IBM supercomputer, make mince meat of the two most formidable Jeopardy players ever. The inherently unfair contest gave me the creeps and was little more than an ad for IBM.
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Chris Pirillo: Why Should You Use a Virtual Machine?
What are the benefits of virtualization? This is a question asked over on Lockergnome Q&A recently, and I thought the answers may just benefit several of you out there. Now, we know that many of you already use virtual machines. Why not leave a GOOD comment on the video, explaining to those who don’t why it is they might want to look into doing so? See how that works? We all help each other! Remember – YOU were a n00b at one time, too!
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Bob Rankin: Hard Drive Maintenance Tips
By Bob Rankin
“I’ve had two hard drives die on me since the beginning of the year. Can you share some tips that will help me keep my hard drives running reliably?”
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Ask Leo: You Have to Keep IE Up to Date
By Leo Notenboom
In general if you don’t have or use a particular piece of software then you
can safely ignore the updates and or vulnerability notifications that you might
run across.
In general.
Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is a special case. Use it or not, you
must keep it up to date.
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TechBite: iPhone Meets the BBQ
By Steve Bass
Have $100 to burn? (Gawd, I certainly don’t.) If you do, splurge on iGrill’s fancy probe. It’s another thing specially designed for Apple aficionados.
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Malware Minute: Email Scams Still Alive & Phishing
The weekly roundup of top stories from the GFI Labs Blog – including news of a distressed traveler scam, Nigerian phishing scam, fake free VPN and .edu forum spam..
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Windows Secrets: Seven simple steps to set up Win7
Our checklist for quickly and easily configuring your new Windows 7 PC.
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