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In computer news this week 12/27/2006 |
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The Raw
Bytes products of the year 2006 Best web
browser – the Firefox 2.0 browser – wins hands down over Internet
Explorer. Firefox first of all is a safer browser, as its software design
makes it not vulnerable to the many bad things that attack internet Explorer.
Secondly, it’s a better browser, with better features, customization,
and speed and security of operation. Best of all it’s free to download
at Mozilla website, and it will
install and automatically copy all your current information from Internet
Explorer – favorite places, home page etc – and you’ll be
up and running in a new dimension of web browsing. Best USB
Flashdrives – Sandisk – the
company that invented the concept, and now sells
their products everywhere – Hastings, Costco – with a 2 Gb drive
now selling for $ 49.95. Better
engineered than many of its competitors drives, and always reliable. Remember
that new computers don’t come with floppy disks anymore, and you need a
USB flashdrive for data storage and transportation.
Best
software for Anonymous web surfing and protection from phishing and other bad
things, Anonymizer. This great package
lets you hide your identity, or your IP address, as you surf the web, and
protects you from many of the dangers lurking out there. Best anti
spyware/antivirus software – Xsoftspy
– a small Canadian company with a big product. I’ve used this for
2 years now and have never had a problem. This has removed some of the
toughest trojan viruses, where McAfee, Norton, and
the others have failed. Best
software for making movies – Windows
Movie Maker – and the best thing about it is that it’s free
– included in Windows XP and Vista. Best
Website creation software – Web Studio
4.0 – a wonderful easy to use and small business friendly website
creation program with tons of capability and great technical and user
support. Break out of the monotony of web pages that all look alike
with this powerful and easy to use program and you can try it for free for 30
days. Best DVD
creation software – Roxio
Easy Media Creator 9.0 – everything you need for making and burning
dvd’s/cd’s of the movies you make and
put on your computer. Allows you to create professional dvd’s/cd’s
with your own music and background, movies, slideshows, labels, backups,
convert music to MP3 format, and
many other features. Microsoft
is coming out with its new Vista operating next year, and we’re already
hearing rumors of security holes in it. Which means that
we’re always going to need 3rd party software to accomplish
our business and personal tasks in our day to day worlds of computing, and
these Raw Bytes products of the year are among the best of them. Wishing
you a safe and sane computing New Year, For Raw Bytes This is Frank Delaney (C) 2006 MTA Micro
Technology Associates http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html PO Box 31522 Spokane, Wa 99223-1522 (509)624-7230 |
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