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Tell Us How PC Pitstop Has Helped You

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Our friends at VideoGenie are allowing us to test drive a cool new application – that allows you to instantly provide us with feedback.

Have a webcam attached to your PC?

This is really easy!

Simply follow the link below to record a brief video – “Telling Us How PC Pitstop Has Helped You”.

On July 30, 2010 – our Pit Crew will award 3 $100 Amazon gift cards to the 3 videos we like the best.

CLICK HERE TO RECORD A VIDEO

By submitting your video, you agree to let us share it with the rest of the PC Pitstop community here at techtalk.pcpitstop.com and pcpitstop.com

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Chris Pirillo: What is Bloatware?

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By Chris Pirillo

A caller the other night asked simply: “What is Bloatware?” That’s actually an easy one to answer! Bloatware is when you have a piece of software that should be a certain size. However, due to several unnecessary things being added in, the size of the software increases dramatically. Heck, sometimes companies add so much crap in that the original software ends up being buggy and laggy.

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Extreme PC MakeOver #6

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Listening to Bob describe his issues was exactly like listening to 90% of the people I talk to these days. It’s not that their computers don’t work, it’s that they don’t work well. Things take too long to open, Internet connections seem slow and as a rule, hard drive space is starting to disappear. This is especially true with systems that are over 3 years old. The older smaller drives of these system fill up quickly when compared to todays systems with large capacity hard drives.

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Chris Pirillo: How to Clean Text

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The community has asked me to do more videos about software. The biggest challenge is to find titles that most people may not have heard of. I also try to find things that are affordable and cross-platform. The other day, I stumbled across this software which is free – and cross-platform. What does it do? Perhaps the title of this video will help you figure that out! CleanHaven will clean up your text.

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Chris Pirillo: How Many USB Devices Do You Have?

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By Chris Pirillo

I love USB. I love the ports, the devices and the hubs. The problem with hubs, though, is that most of them top out at only seven little spots to plug things into. I have SO many USB devices. How the heck am I ever going to plug them all in at once? How many USB devices do you have? List them all in the comments thread and let’s see who has what! Whoever has the most (and can PROVE it with a picture of them all together at once) will win my existing USB hub!

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PC Pitstop Newsletter – May 2010 #2

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    The State of Security
    Detecting Facebook Security Problems
    Security Software Doesnt Fix Human Nature
    Google’s Drive By Snooping
    How to Control Your Facebook Privacy
    Are Computers Simply Too Unsafe?
    Should You Quit Facebook?
    Free iPad Scam
    No one PC security program best at doing it all
    Gadget Survey
    Tip 1 – Cookie control and script defender
    Tip 2 – Scan A Windows PC For Viruses From A Ubuntu Live CD
    Tip 3 – Free AVG Rescue CD

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Chris Pirillo: Should You Quit Facebook?

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By Chris Pirillo

Are you leaving Facebook? With all of the concern over privacy lately, many people are choosing to close their accounts. Others are educating themselves with the changes Facebook has made and making the best choices for their profile pages. Still more people are clueless… they don’t realize what is being shared and with whom. They have no idea how to fix this problem once they do learn of it. They just keep going along with their heads in the sand, and hope for the best. This isn’t the way things should be, folks. You shouldn’t have to be so afraid of what the wrong person might see. The fact is, if you put something online then someone will see it. I have come up with the perfect two-step plan to help solve this problem.

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