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If you have more than one PC and are tired of inserting floppies to share Files, you might consider a home LAN. It lets you share files among PCs by [...]

The scenario is all too familiar: A friend forwards a letter from a friend of a friend. The message begins, "This is not a hoax!" then tells a heart-rending tale […]

To watch Intel commercials, with satisfied Centrino users 'unwiring' out of doors, it would seem there's some new magic in a Centrino notebook--but there isn't. Centrino is a set of [...]

E-mail and newsgroup spam are annoying, but at least they file neatly into your e-mail or newsgroup reader. Pop-up Web ads, on the other hand, erupt onto your desktop as [...]

If everything you touch turns to gold, you need a good counting house and a way to take financial charge of customers, vendors, employees, banking, tracking, and planning. QuickBooks Premier [...]

When you're a busy executive or just work like one, impossible schedules and multiple demands on your push caring for yourself to the bottom of your to-do list. If you [...]

If time is money, there is good reason to consider hassle-free key chain drives, such as Disk-On-Key by M-Systems (www.diskonkey.com). The tiny drives go anywhere and store data like any [...]

One product that we also tested was Ultimate Business Planner. The software package is a Version 1.0 product, so we were a bit skeptical about its ability to deliver as [...]

For some business owners, tough times call for innovative measures. Glenn King, owner of Sacramento, California-based Exotica Art & Fashion (www .exoticart.org), found a unique way of boosting his company's [...]

Competitive technology has always affected the survival of a community or a people--think bows and arrows vs. cannons. Make no mistake: The economic survival of many black-owned businesses is tied [...]

At the end of the movie Deliverance, the three main characters return from a hellish camping trip, having killed one of their tormentors and thrown his body in a river. [...]

Tired of toting a gaggle of tech tools, business professionals and consumers have been clamoring for a solution. Now there's an answer, or two: phones that double as personal digital [...]

From the late 1990s through much of 2001, online vendors pushed free services as if they were going out of style--and now they have. BlueLight.com now offers cheap, not free, [...]

Keeping track of your visitors can help you make your site even better Throughout this series we've guided you from the conception of your Website to its completion--helping you avoid [...]

Attract attention to your site on and off the Web If you've followed the tips in this series, you should be well on your way to creating a great Website [...]

Find the Website you need--even without the URL Like a library, the Internet is a vast repository of information on all manner of subjects, indexed for your retrieval. Unfortunately, you [...]

Avoid these pitfalls for a successful online presence If you want customers to buy from your store or retain your services, you have to treat them well. Many companies, Internet [...]

Rating: ** 1/2 out of four Price: $99 Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT FastSite 2.0 lets any PC user quickly send application files to the Web, though images may go a bit […]

The finer points that create a must-see Internet presence You've heard for months that your business should have a Web site, and you've finally decided to take the plunge. But [...]

JetForm Corp. Design tools ease forms creation; varied, practical technologies extend the reach of interactive forms Rating: *** out of four Price: $7,900 (100 seats) Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 ELECTRONIC […]

A great site starts with a great plan Web surfers are ready to spend money. With a small investment of time and money your site can divert dollars from your [...]

Make the most of your digital life on the road Juggling a laptop, spare battery, cables and printer isn't as much of a problem as it was 10 years ago. [...]

Everyone says you should be online, but how do you decide which Internet service provider (ISP) is right for you? You may have already decided that you don't need the [...]

Grand Vision Pro Dobbs-Stanford Corp. 2715 Electronic Ln. Dallas, TX 75220 1-800-994-8776; (214) 350-5990 List Price: $349 Requires: 386 or higher; 640K RAM; TV or VCR with RCA input jack, […]

Escape With Your Life: Instant Self-Defense Tactics for Women Villa Crespo Software Inc. 1725 McGovern St. Highland Park, IL 60035 1-800-521-3963; (708) 433-0500 Sugg. List Price: $49.95 Requires: 386 or […]

For years, large networks and file servers have trusted Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) subsystems to keep mission-critical data safe. But today, the superior throughput and fault tolerance of […]

Terrorist Group Profiles Quanta Press Inc. 1313 5th St. S.E., Suite 208C Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612) 379-3956 Sugg. List Price: $79.95 Requires: 386 or higher; 640K RAM; VGA; CD-ROM drive; […]

Have you ever had to unplug your mouse to connect a printer? Anyone whose notebook PC or PDA has one serial port, but who needs to plug in two serial […]

The old gray LAN just ain't what it used to be, many logins ago. Once, a server with a 486 processor handled network traffic with no delays, but today's LAN […]

In a market that sometimes seems devoted to future vaporware, let alone current software, a mail-order business that defies the state-of-the-art mentality is growing under our noses. Thrifty shoppers can […]

Radish Communications Systems' VoiceView technology, which permits both voice and data communications during the same call on a single phone line (see the June 1994 Trends & Technology, p. 63), […]

Look for Higher Sustained Speeds, More Multitasking Capacity Western Digital, Maxtor, Conner Peripherals, Seagate, and Quantum have dressed up the IDE interface and made it better--seemingly, the cheaper alternative to […]

Teleconferencing is now a real option for small businesses, as Creative Labs rolls out ShareVision PC3000--a $1,599-per-seat package that lets distant users see live video of one another, work together […]

Pro Deluxe Multimedia Kit Media Vision Inc. 47300 Bayside Pkwy. Fremont, CA 94538 1-800-684-6699 Sugg. List Price: $799 Requires: 386SX or higher (486SX required for some software); 2MB RAM; 8MB […]

Users want portable PCs that don't take much battery power, but still pack computing power. Hoping to solve that paradox, Siliconix Inc. is shipping sample quantities of Lite Foot--a petite […]

Model 4 Digital Still Camera Dycam Inc. 9588 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Chatsworth, CA 91311 (818) 998-8008 Sugg. List Price: $1,495 Requires: 386DX or higher; 4Mb RAM; 256-color or higher display; […]

Hewlett-Packard OmniBooks and Sharp Wizards have done it for some time, but many more notebook and desktop PCs may be doing it soon--exchanging data and updating files via infrared beams. […]

The phrase small as a credit card is catchy, but what if your wallet can hold just two credit cards? Type II PCMCIA cards are only about 5mm thick, yet […]

ORA Electronics' $249.95 Cellular/Data Link isn't exactly glamor-ous--it looks like a mouse sucking face with a serial-cable connector. But it lets modem-equipped notebook PCs--or anything else that plugs into an […]

Not long ago, plugging a notebook PC into a local-area network was a major headache. Today, you can do it without a plug. Data Race (1-800-749-7223) is shipping its RediCARDrf […]

Aristosoft Inc. 7041 Koll Center Pkwy. Pleasanton, CA 94566 1-800-338-2629 Sugg. List Price: $79.95 Requires: 386SX or higher; 4Mb RAM; CD-ROM drive; sound card; speakers; Windows 3.0 or higher. So […]