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It’s always fun to have a few games to play on your computer. Games help break up your day and keep you from burning out. Of course if you’re at work make sure you’re not breaking any rules.
Some game links:
Road Runner subscribers: great collection of games, many free.
Here’s my personal collection of over a dozen game sites, mostly free.

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] When was the last time you verified your A/V sofware?When was the last time you verified your anti-virus software is up to date? I get emails from people all the time that get infected with viruses. Folks, don’t let this happen to you. A ruined computer is no fun. If you’re a Road Runner subscriber, you can get free anti-virus software so you’ve got no excuse!

I got the inside scoop. Oceanic Time Warner just doubled the upload speed of their Road Runner High Speed Online service from 512kb to 1mb. For those of us doing online backups, bitTorrent downloads, and video/audio uploads, it’s HUGE.
I did this myself just now and have the screen shots below. I am running Mozy online backups on my computer. The 358kb upload is about the average speed I’ve been getting for the past few months.
I took a screenshot of that window just before I performed …

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If you’re a surfer and have a high speed cable modem, I hope you’re gonna also tell me that you’ve got a collection of surf report Web sites too. Now you can stay mild with your run-of-the-mill surf report to find out what’s going on at the bowl or at Lani’s, or you can get medieval on it and track the storms via satellites and real-time video on all the hot spots. You don’t have to wait for the weatherman to tell you the …

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By now, I’m sure that everyone has done a mailmerge at least once. A mailmerge is when you write one document and then merge it with a list of addresses to print personalized labels and letters. Back in the primitive 20th century we used to actually mail these letters using paper, stamps, and envelopes. Did you know that in today’s 21st century we can use software like Microsoft Word to do a email merge? It works just like the old way, except instead …