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		<title>The Paperless Book</title>
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The paperless office may still be a long way off, but the forests of the world have what to celebrate: The paperless living room is here, now, and is coming to an e-book reader near you!
If e-books – and e-magazines, e-flyers, and any other reading material that was formerly available only in print – were still “iffy” until recently, that&#8217;s all changed with the arrival of Apple&#8217;s iPad. The iPad is far more than an e-reader, of course; you can watch Youtube videos and downloaded movies in brilliant, beautiful color ...]]></description>
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		<title>Little Lost Laptop</title>
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There are pluses and minuses to being able to take all your work with you – from the office to your home, or even on vacation; you get more work done, but your work, it seems, is never done!
You see laptops everywhere these days – at coffee shops, on trains and planes, and even in the park. Unfortunately, though, thieves see them too – and as a result, a laptop is lost or stolen in the U.S. about every 10 seconds!
Losing a laptop can be traumatic – all that work, ...]]></description>
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		<title>W-YOU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten thousand songs. That&#8217;s how many I figure I need for my radio station.
This is a station that won&#8217;t be found on the AM or FM band, though – it&#8217;s exclusively for my use. My 10,000 songs have a home on my computer&#8217;s hard drive, and I&#8217;m be able to listen to them either directly on the computer, or the other computers in the house – or even through my cell phone. And to get the music I need for my station, I&#8217;ve been busy downloading songs off the internet ...]]></description>
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		<title>Do Try This at Home</title>
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If once the web was a way for people to communicate, nowadays it&#8217;s more about relaxing and wasting time. Once there were comic books and TV sets; now there are iPads and Youtube. They invented those things for a reason!
But there&#8217;s more to the internet than online games and a “boss button” to hide your perfidy when your supervisor appears; you can actually learn to do stuff on-line. What can you learn? Almost anything there is to know! There are dozens of sites out there that will tell you (in ...]]></description>
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		<title>At the Roots of it All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual events we&#8217;ve commemorated and celebrated over the past couple of weeks -beginning with Passover and extending through Holocaust Memorial Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day – all bring to mind the question of who we are, and where we come from. If you&#8217;ve thought about the idea of putting together a family tree or just wanted to know more about your roots, the Internet can be a great friend. Here are some tips on where to look for information, and how to peel away the layers of the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/genealogy/</link>
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		<title>In the Stream of Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got a phone these days, you&#8217;ve got a music player. Why shlep an iPod or other MP3 player if you want to listen to music on the go?
Because you can get more music on an MP3 player than on a phone, of course. Unless you&#8217;ve got a really fancy phone with a big memory card, you&#8217;re limited to only a couple dozen songs on your device, and you&#8217;re constantly tethering your phone to your computer in order to get music on it. Ah, the hassles of modern life!
But ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/streams/</link>
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		<title>Scary Computer Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once, girls were girls and men were men; you knew who you were then. And you knew who the bad guys and the good guys were; the viruses the former, and the virus-fighting programs the latter. No more, though. Nowadays, the very programs you were counting on to fight viruses might be nothing more than viruses themselves!
Time to learn a new word. You&#8217;ve heard of malware, spyware, and virusware? Now welcome to the world of “scareware,” the fastest-growing segment of the rogue software population out there. Disguising itself as a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/scary/</link>
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		<title>Get Your Backup Act Together!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click. Whirr. Click again. Uh-oh. That&#8217;s one too many clicks. Sounds like you&#8217;ve just heard the “Click of Death.” Hope you backed everything up!
You&#8217;d be surprised how many people don&#8217;t, unfortunately. But sudden disk drive death syndrome (SDDDS, an acronym I just made up) is an unfortunate fact of life. Would you believe that in the U.S., over 170,000 hard drives are “lost” every year? Of course, it&#8217;s not the disk we&#8217;re worried about – it&#8217;s the data on the disk, consisting of vital and probably almost irreplaceable information.
Data backups ...]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Your Cellphone Bill, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, “sending someone a short message” entailed writing a note and sticking it on the refrigerator door – and all it cost you to send was the time to jot down a couple of sentences on a piece of scrap paper. Nowadays, of course, no respectable note-writer would bother with pen and paper; instead, they would send an e-mail, or, better, a short phone message, using their cellphone&#8217;s SMS feature. SMS, of course, has a great advantage over the old system, in that you don&#8217;t have to ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/452/</link>
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		<title>Lower Your Cellphone Bill, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[D&#8217;ja ever notice that somehow, some way, no matter what you do, you always end up spending more on your cell phone bills than you expect to? No, this is not the opening to a Seinfeld routine (although I bet he has one on the subject!). But it&#8217;s a situation we&#8217;ve all become familiar with: The cell phone companies present us with “plans” that include free minutes, free chat, free internet – free! &#8211; but we somehow end up paying the same, or more, with each subsequent plan!
How could this ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/lower-your-cellphone-bill-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Music on the Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Once there were “boomboxes,” those quaint suitcase-sized stereos that turned heads – and created headaches – whenever they were in the vicinity. Then music went “private,” as Walkmans and iPods provided walkers, runners, and bus and train riders with hours of musical enjoyment.
And now that we&#8217;re in the age of the “digital device,” the music player of choice for a new generation is – the cellphone! It&#8217;s all about “convergence,” using a single device for data, messaging, internet use, and of course, playing music and video. And because they&#8217;re ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/music-on-the-go/</link>
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		<title>Healthful Computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers have been accused of causing all sorts of health problems – from obesity to lower back pain, from neck pain to carpal tunnel syndrome. Considering the maladies associated with computers, it&#8217;s amazing the government hasn&#8217;t put warning stickers on them yet!
But as it turns out, your computer can help you with your well-being – if used properly, that is. There are many web sites and online services you can use to keep yourself in tip-top shape – helping you to diet, reduce pain, get information on treatments, and even ...]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;iPod People&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you got a new music player for Chanuka? Welcome to the ranks of the “(i)Pod people” &#8211; those who  get to have the soundtrack of their lives accompany them anywhere and everywhere. Finally, you get to be one of those unflappable people who never have to lack for entertainment, no matter where they are or what they&#8217;re doing.
There&#8217;s one thing they forgot to tell you about digital music players, though – where to get the music to fill it up with! It turns out that getting your favorite music ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Up the Car Keys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had it up to here (my hand is under my chin) with commuting? Can&#8217;t stand to hear another peppy radio traffic reporter cheerily sentence you to two hours of bumper-to-bumper? Had enough of a rat race that no self-respecting rat would even consider running in? Sounds like you need a nice, long rest – or a stint working at home!
Telecommuting is all the rage today &#8211; for good reason. Why shlep when you can do the same work at home, saving yourself long hours on the road and keeping fuel ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/homeoffice/</link>
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		<title>Lights, Camera, Action!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of stars these days – movie stars, that is! Thanks to the internet, everybody and his cousin can now star in their own production, using techniques straight out of the Hollywood playbook. And not just plain-vanilla Youtube videos, either; the sites I have in mind will let you assemble your video and photos into a smart-looking production, accompanied by music or voice, and interspersed with special effects. These are the kinds of videos you see at friends&#8217; weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, the kind you&#8217;ve always wished ...]]></description>
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		<title>Organization, Cellphone Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a busy world, and all of us, bar none, have busy lives. So, we&#8217;re looking to cut time spent on errands wherever possible. When we&#8217;re able to save a few minutes a day on one of the myriad tasks we&#8217;re faced with, we feel as if we&#8217;ve really accomplished something. That&#8217;s how busy we are today!
One of the must-have skills for busy people is being organized – knowing what you have to do, when it&#8217;s got to get done, and planning how you&#8217;re going to do it. Throw a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/organization-cellphone-style/</link>
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		<title>A Stick in Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Speak softly and carry a big stick” was a watchword for the 20th century, but nowadays we do things a bit differently; we may speak softly or loudly, but the only stick anyone carries nowadays is a small one – the USB stick you can use for (nearly) a million and one things!
The changes wrought by the little device known as the USB Flash Drive in our computing habits are legion. In the bare decade since they were introduced, the &#8220;stick,&#8221; which lets you store on its flash memory 4 ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/a-stick-in-time/</link>
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		<title>The Eye on the Desktop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first got it, you had delusions of grandeur; get yourself in front of a camera, and you&#8217;d be a star! But things didn&#8217;t quite work out; that freebie webcam that came with your PC became just another piece of cluttering junk, and it wasn&#8217;t long before it moved off the desktop and into the drawer – way, way in the back.
Now, though, might be a good time to dig out and dust off your webcam; we&#8217;ve got a couple of tricks that might not make you a star, ...]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes for the Common Phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first take home your fancy new cellphone that can hold endless gigs of data, run circles around the internet, and connect to the rest of the world in umpteen different ways, you&#8217;re pretty proud of yourself. It&#8217;s only when you try and get your phone connected to the sources of that data that you realize that there was one question you forgot to ask: Just how easy is it to get at the music, video and photos on your computer and on the internet?
It&#8217;s then that you realize ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/dazzboard/</link>
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		<title>Search for Tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google just isn&#8217;t doing it for me anymore. Am I the only one out there who&#8217;s noticed? I don&#8217;t think so!
Like everyone else in the world, I&#8217;ve traded in the web search engine(s) I used to use for Google – to the extent that it&#8217;s now pretty much the only search engine we use (to the extent that it seems as if the “old” engines, like Altavista, are no longer there &#8211; but they are). And the reason everyone dropped their former search engines in favor of Google is because ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/search-for-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>All About Betsy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Answer this question with the first response that pops into your head. Which is cheaper: Buying a new car or keeping an old one in good shape?
A question I have often asked myself every time I embarked on a journey with the Ol&#8217; Betsy of chez Newzgeek, which happens to be a Mitsubishi Space Wagon that, in human years, would be eligible for a retiree&#8217;s pension by now. Anybody who&#8217;s principal vehicle is a personal vehicle (as opposed to a “company car”) knows the dilemma. Every time you undergo a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/all-about-betsy/</link>
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		<title>The Lost Jews of Palestine</title>
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&#8220;We are of the same race and blood, and cooperation will bring great prosperity to the land,” wrote Emir Feisal to Felix Frankfurter in 1917. Feisal was known for his affinity to the Zionists who had begun streaming to the Holy Land; in 1919, he signed a cooperation agreement with Haim Weizmann, to whom he wrote that he was “mindful of the racial kinship and ancient bonds existing between the Arabs and the Jewish people.”
But Feisal&#8217;s proclamations of kindredness with the Jews was more than lip service to a commonly ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/the-lost-jews-of-palestine/</link>
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		<title>Politically Correct on your PC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been said that “a young man who isn&#8217;t a socialist hasn&#8217;t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn&#8217;t got a head.” Well, maybe that worked back in the 1920&#8217;s, when Lloyd George (who said it) was Prime Minister of the Empire. Things have changed, though – nowadays it&#8217;s hard to pin down and pigeonhole conservatives and liberals, as well as capitalists and socialists. For example: Who spent more during their eight years as president, Republican (conservative?) George W. Bush or Democrat (liberal?) Bill Clinton?  For ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/politically-correct-on-your-pc/</link>
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		<title>The Day They Burned the Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 9th day of Av, known as the fast of Tisha B&#8217;av, has been, historically, a bad day for the Jews. Tisha B&#8217;Av is, of course a sad day because it commemorates the destruction of not one,but two Holy Temples, and presaged our loss of national independence and descent into exile. 


Tisha B&#8217;av got its bad rep way back when the Jews cried over the evil report of the spies who had gone to the Land of Israel for undercover espionage work. Ever since then, the day has been appointed ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newzgeek.com/the-day-they-burned-the-books/</link>
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		<title>Bored Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conversation on typical summer day at home:
(Parent to kid:) Beach? (kid to Parent:) Not again!  (P to K:) Pool? (K to P:) Been there, done that. (P to K:) Mall? (K to P:) But we&#8217;ve seen all the movies already!
Well, it was a good try. Looks like another day of TV watching and web surfing. Can&#8217;t something be done about eliminating August from the calendar – anything to get school to start sooner? The kids may waste just as much time in school as they do at home, but at ...]]></description>
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