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from time to time. Some additional anonymity is provided by PeerGuardianblacklisting, which is incorpo-rated to block known snoopinghosts. Blacklistin

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PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com34BILL HOWARD After Apple introducedits innovative Power-Book G4 with a 17-inchscreen earlier this year (

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MICHAEL J. MILLEROne thing isclear: Thelawyers fromIBM and SCOwill be arguingfor some timeto come.www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE7Forwar

APPLE FOR THE STUDENT“BACK TO SCHOOL” (August 19, page 90) is a great guideto buying PCs for students, but I feel you misrepresentedApple in your find

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www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE61an array function (a function that performsmultiple calculations on multiple values): =SUM(IF(NOT(ISERR

Whether it’s to share files or In-ternet connections or to playdigital content throughoutthe house, networking has become part ofeveryday life for man

Ever come across a document thatuses a corporate logo for bullets orcustom icons for notes or chapterheadings and wish you could do it your-self? Cust

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Forward ThinkingMICHAEL J. MILLERIBM EXECS SEE THE SOFTWARE industry ina very different light from SCO. IBM softwarehead Steve Mills doesn’t see open-

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www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE81upgrade or service the machines. In fact, upgrading is an excellent stepping stone to building awhole m

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on your system. So we added a third, more conventional Max-tor DiamondMax Plus 9—a 200GB parallel ATA hard drive—to give us lots of capacity for digit

PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com84Align the DDR memory module so that the notch at the connector edgelines up with the key in the socket.

One of the joys ofbuilding your ownmachine is self-expression. We’reusing the SuperFlower case, asdecorated by thefolks atCaseArts—asure cure for theb

PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com86Remove the drive bayfrom the chassis andslide the two harddrives in so that theconnectors face theinsid

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BUILD OR BUY: HIGH ENDwww.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE87Attach the CDand S/PDIFaudio cables tothe sound card.We kept the official tests f

onfiguring a budget machine is easier than creat-ing a high-end system in some ways and more dif-ficult in others. You need to factor cost into each d

Attach the front-panel connectors, includingthe power and reset switches. Follow thedocumentation carefully.The mounting points in the chassis aretypi

Attach drive rails to the side of the optical drive with the suppliedscrews. Attach the CD audio cable now to save yourself a difficultreach later. Fe

BUILD OR BUY: BUDGETPC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com92Locate the AGP slot on the motherboard; it is the expan-sion slot closest to the CP

www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE95TIPS AND TRICKSGet the most out of your digital-imaging gearHave you considered putting vodka in your p

PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com961UNLOCK THE SCANNER HEADOn the bottom or side of many scanners is a dial orslide for locking and unlock

mon for scanners to recognizewhen you put more than onephoto on the glass platen.When this happens, they auto-matically scan each photo intoits own fi

have USB 2.0 High Speed ports(for a whopping 400-Mbpsconnection), but until that day,you may want to invest in aninexpensive USB 2.0 memorycard reader

TIPS AND TRICKSwww.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE9920BUY TWOINK TANKSAT A TIMEAlways keep a spare ink car-tridge on hand. Murphy’s Lawdicta

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TIPS AND TRICKSPC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com100cartridges include the inkjets—as most do—you can geta fresh set of unclogged print-hea

Broadband providers promise fastdownloads and always-on connections.Do they deliver? We asked our readersand signed up ourselves to find out.Broadband

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broadband connection, or to re-place an existing one, we pro-vide an in-depth study oftoday’s market, wherein we test9 leading broadband servicesand r

Charter Pipeline $29.99 to $49.99 per month; setup, $49.95 plus modem.Charter Communications, www.chartercom.com.Our readers give the no-frills cableb

ter’s tech support couldn’t diagnose theproblem remotely. Charter scheduled asecond technician to visit, but we had towait a week for him to arrive. T

www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE107BROADBANDspeeds, confirming our readers’ impres-sion of good throughput. And tech supportdid better on

(Cable installation is quicker if youalready have cable TV; at our testinghousehold, we didn’t.) Once connected, we found EarthLink’sspeeds at or near

for any service in our 2002 survey. Such troubles aside, Optimum Onlinecontinues to please, with impressivespeed and a respectable range of services,i

dresses, with 5MB per box (the leasthere) and just 5MB to 10MB of serverstorage space for a personal Web page,and it lacks pop-up–blocking andparental

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tech support both by phone and by Web;although the reps were polite and ulti-mately helpful, they weren’t always quick.Once we finally got online, our

In the not-so-distant future,many of us will make regularvideo phone calls to far-flung friends using our TVs.We’ll stream video throughthe air of our

TVs, stereos, and PCs will no longer simply coexist; they will communicate.PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com114In the next year or two, ho

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PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com116Although the tech industry has languished in the past fewyears, recent events, threats, and legislatio

www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE117Data storage has become both a critical corporate asset anda major IT management headache. Companies h

PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com118Enterprise networking encompasses a wide spectrum of applications and components, from backbone infras

PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com134BY BILL HOWARDTraveling Musicwww.pcmag.com/afterhoursTECHNOLOGY ON YOUR TIMEThe average southern Calif

www.pcmag.com SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 PC MAGAZINE135AFTER HOURSPioneer DEH-P90HDDThe Pioneer DEH-P90HDD is an all-in-onedashboard radio/CD player/hard dri

AFTER HOURS136PC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.comQuirky, Not QWERTYThe innovative Keybowl orbiTouch keylesskeyboard transforms the sometimes

PIPELINEPC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com26It may be time to give a fare-well nod to the wooden facialexpressions found in today’sgames. H

AFTER HOURSAsk Dr. TechWhen we placed our service call to AskDr. Tech, the operator told us we wouldget a call back in about 2 minutes from anappropri

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PIPELINEPC MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 16, 2003 www.pcmag.com28Head HereKill Spam withSpamKillerMcAfee will soon releaseSpamKiller 5.0, an over-hauled version

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