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Continuing the trend of posts about getting value out of your printer, ITBusiness has posted an excellent article with a few seemingly obvious – but worth repeating – ways to save money on inkjet cartridges. A few highlights? Don’t print out an entire webpage to get a few lines of relevant text, unless you want to waste your valuable Canon printer ink on printing out Canon banner ads. Use ad blocking software to get rid of the ads, or use your browser’s ability to highlight and print only selected areas instead. Or cut out the printing altogether and send the document to your phone!

Disclaimer: The author, Amy Sage, is employed by MyInkPro.com.

i read all these articles from many different sources and come to the same conclussion, people cant be creative.

1) they recommend stuff everyone already knows about

2) you mention a new product they feel they should write an article on it and get credit for it

3) they try and recommend products they never used

4) the products they recommend arent the best of their category

5) they have no business writing articles.

funny i read an article earlier about free software and this editor is recommending a product that pcworld has tested to be the worst product of its kind. so basically they are recommending you use the inferior product or they know nothing about software and dont even follow whats going on, on the same website they work for.

i also notice most companies that write articles for a living have mods and admins. this is fine except they hire the ones who think they are better then everyone else, allow those like them to say whatever they want, then delete posts or block those who respond.

in the end ive come to the conclussion that most online are

1) out of touch with reality

2) have a superiority complex

3) forget or wish to deny who they are in real life

anyone who is hurt by words needs mental help and anyone who takes what someone says online seriously needs to be put in an insane asylum. truth hurts but truth is reality and people need to wake up and accept reality.

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here's a new product for everyone called Readon Internet TV. it shows both pay and free stations for free. many movies, but word of caution is it also contains adult channels like playboy tv. So only allow kids to use it if your watching over them

http://www.readontech.com/downloads/setupTV.zip

Have you ever considered how to set up your online quizzes and exams to impact learning and success? Or have you ever wondered what's the best way to use to improve blended eLearning? We explored many of the facets of online assessment, and found that the segment of score reporting leads the assessment efficiency, and usually is neglected in online assessment.

Posting the quiz to an LMS (Learning Management System, like Blackboard) might be the most efficient thing to do if we want to track and report the scores. But we know, not everyone can afford an LMS, or like to use an LMS. Instead of using an LMS to manage the quiz results, we may like to instruct the quiz to send the scores via e-mail, or a specialized reporting system. The results tracking and score reporting capability seems to be an usual requirement from most users as online assessment instructors. And the online score reporting system would be the perfect solution for effective online scoring.

Here we take Wondershare QuizCreator and its Quiz Management System for the example. The technique and included system helps users easily track results and report scores as we expected.

To enable QMS (Quiz Management System) in QuizCreator, just learn the steps below:

1. In QuizCreator, go to Quiz Properties -> QMS Settings, just enable QMS and register QMS accounts before publishing;
2. Publish the quiz in QuizCreator, and then the participants take the quiz;
3. In Quiz Management System, instructors effortlessly view quiz details, scoring statistics and analysis reports.

Quiz Management System

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yes guys for free and all the payware guys and pc world editors who are biased will hate this truth. anyways here is how to optimize your pc protection by only using free products

1) Anti-Virus: Rising Anti-Virus Free Edition.

• offers free application sandboxing, free anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware, anti-rootkit detection and removal

• offers unknown threats like kaspersky as well as constant updates like kaspersky

2) Anti-Malware: Malwarebytes Free

• offers constant updates and top notch anti-malware detection

3) Anti-Spyware: Spybot 1.6

• offers browser protection for both ie and firefox as well as making a good anti-spyware scanner

4) Firewall: Online Armor Free

• offers top notch security for free. the only recommended free firewall in the newest firewall tests

5) HIPS: WinPatrol

• offers keylogger protection as well as a great start up manager and doesnt slow down your pc like threatfire

6) Process: Process Explorer

• to see what all is running in your process, use this nice task manager replacement

7) Browser: Firefox

• offers free anti-malware, and anti-spyware as well as scans downloads for viruses.

8) Anti-Phishing: WOT

• we all know SiteAdvisor. what a lot don't know is how biased site advisor actually is since McAfee bought them out. WOT is what SiteAdvisor was before McAfee ruined them. They go not only by what others have to say (like SiteAdvisor) but also go by famous black and white lists (something SiteAdvisor doesnt do). as an added bonus WOT will not let you into a site they deem yellow or red unless you confirm it (another thing SiteAdvisor doesnt do). WOT also has the google search ratings outside the sites like SiteAdvisor does. WOT doesnt go by what a certain anti-virus has to say like SiteAdvisor does using McAfee's false positive ridden, low detection Anti-Virus. Thats why WOT chooses black and white lists instead. Its more accurate that way. Another huge advantage WOT has is it lists has 4 ratings to SiteAdvisor's one. So if a site is say yellow in WOT, u can click on the symbol and see why it is. Another downside to SiteAdvisor is they penalize a site solely for having red links. This is wrong in the fact most who go to a site don't go to the other sites which is why WOT only rates things on a site to site basis like it should be. These are the reasons WOT should be your number one Anti-Phishing and SiteAdvisor should be no more than a secondary.

Bonus: Unlocker

• this is the perfect tool for removing an app that is corrupt or has become corrupt

with this combo you will get commercial detection and protection from almost all malware there is. viruses, spyware, worms, etc.

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1) Rising Antivirus Free Edition

http://www.freerav.com/

2) Digsby

http://www.digsby.com/

3) Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

4) Thunderbird

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

5) Spyware Doctor Starter Edition

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/downloads/2213005/spyware-doctor-starter-edition

6) Weather Pulse

http://www.tropicdesigns.net/weather_pulse.html

7) Secunia PSI

https://psi.secunia.com/

8) Ashampoo Burning Studio Free

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Ashampoo-Burning-Studio-Free-Download-98129.html

9) WinPatrol

http://www.winpatrol.com/

10) SpywareBlaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

11) Quick Media Converter

http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/

12) Clickster

http://www.remlapsoftware.com/clickster.htm

13) RegToy

http://k-n.co.cc/

14) XChange PDF Viewer

http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer

15) Gnumeric

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

16) Vuze

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

17) Teen Spirit

http://www.artificialspirit.com/

18) EditPad Lite

http://www.just-great-software.com/

19) Unlocker

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

20) JkDefrag GUI

http://www.emro.nl/freeware/

Gateway's dedication to customer service and affordable quality products always made them 'stand out of the heard' for me. My first experience with Gateway dates back years ago when we got our first digital camera. The digital camera was 4 megapixels and worked great. One day as many things do after years of use it stopped working. I called up gateway with no warranty information on hand and was worried that like most pc related customer service these days that they would give me the run around. The phone call was the best customer service I have ever received. They picked up on the first few rings, and easily looked up the information for me on the camera. The warranty was still valid and they had no problem with replacing it. The camera I received had some problem with the picture quality and they then sent me a new camera sealed in box. After that I decided that the next computer I wanted to deal with would be a Gateway because I trusted them.

Unfortunately, very recently Acer bought them out. I knew that my current brand of choice was bound to take a turn for the worse, and so it has. I have had my heart set on the most economical tablet pc I could find. Then I read here at PCWorld that Gateway Direct has shut down, and will only be selling through 3rd party establishments now. Selling directly online was the foundation of Gateway. I had often passed their large building in South Dakota delighted to see the outside painted like their logo with cow spots.

I was still looking forward to buying my tablet pc from a 3rd party. One day I go to the website to take a look at the computer and find out where I can get it, and can find no tablet pc’s on the site. They are out of stock with no plans of restocking the line. I also found out that many of their employee’s careers have also been discontinued. AzureAbyss at tabletpcreview.com had an online chat with a Gateway representative inquiring over the status of the tablet pc’s. You can view the transcript in its entirety here. The representative expressed confusion in why upper management would cut their something that has the “greater market share in the tablet pc industry than any of its competitors... its our strongest product per we originated the technology... so i cant imagine the guy up top would cut that product in general.“ They said that their may be a high-end tablet in retail stores by the end of the quarter, but honestly I don’t know if I trust the company anymore. To quote the former employee “it was nice while it lasted.”

Thanks for all the years of quality service Gateway, you were truly one of a kind.

Yumi saying Goobye to her faithful cow Gateway

DigiYumi is a technology related cartoon made by auroradizon@gmail.com.