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		<title>Copying Pictures Only Makes Shortcuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long-time reader Chet Norris wrote to ask aout a couple problems he was having:
    Hi Terry 2 questions for the price of one if I may. 1.When I try to copy &#8216;my pictures&#8217; to a CD they come out as addresses or locations instead of pics. I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s normal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/11/15/copying-pictures-only-makes-shortcuts/</link>
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		<title>Quattro Pro Problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subscriber Ray Lenz wrote after my articles recently
    Terry,
    I enjoyed your Q &#038; A with Alice. I&#8217;m 76 myself and slowing down a little with my computer savvy even though I have been working with computers since 1966. I was a programmer on an IBM 1401 with 8K [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/08/28/quattro-pro-problems/</link>
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		<title>Internet Protection with a Firewall and Router</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, subscriber Peter Killick had a question about protection from downloads:
 I was under the impression that my combination of a router plus a software firewall completely prevented anything ever being downloaded on my computer over the web without my approval, typically indicated by clicking a button. My router is a Netgear, properly and carefully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/02/17/internet-protection-with-a-firewall-and-router/</link>
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		<title>Fun on the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I like to write about new sites (or, at least, new to me) that are designed for fun.
First, let&#8217;s take a look at some ASCII art. ASCII stands for &#8220;American Standard Code for Information Interchange.&#8221; In the 1960&#8217;s and 1970&#8217;s, before the days of dot-matrix printers and other printers capable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/01/28/fun-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Safely Remove Hardware the Easy Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we use removable storage devices, such as flash drives, external hard drives, and notebook cd/dvd drives, there&#8217;s a very important step to take before disconnnecting a device.
Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista have a built-in feature to cache disk writes. That is, they pretend that a portion of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/01/17/safely-remove-hardware-the-easy-way/</link>
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		<title>Strange Computer Symptoms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Longtime subscriber Greg wrote to ask:
 Terry, My desktop has started to have a couple really aggravating problems and I wanted to run them by you. 1) Every morning when I go to check my email before work, I find that all my desktop icons have disappeared and I am looking at the wallpaper only. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2009/01/06/strange-computer-symptoms/</link>
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		<title>VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware &#8211; Question from a Reader</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As long-time readers of my newsletter and site know, as does anyone who reads the introduction to the recommended security software article in my weekly online issue, my selection of recommended software is driven by my search for software for me to use. I only recommend programs that I like and that I use. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/12/14/vipre-antivirus-antispyware-question-from-a-reader/</link>
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		<title>Speeding Up a Slow Dialup Connection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reader Teri Scott wrote me to ask about her slow dialup Internet connection:
    Hello,
    I have a desktop and a laptop and live in a remote area so the only internet I can get is dial-up. We recently moved and in our previous home, my desktop and laptop connected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/11/30/speeding-up-a-slow-dialup-connection/</link>
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		<title>Backup Success Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subscriber James McClellan wrote to let me know he was finally successful with backing up&#8230;
Terry, I hadn&#8217;t been able to get my external back-up drive to work since buying a new dell. At your recommendation, I tried Karen&#8217;s Replicator ( www.karenware.com ) It worked great and I&#8217;m now doing daily backups to the external drive. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/11/07/backup-success-story/</link>
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		<title>Create PDF Files for Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the easiest ways to document web pages and other printable content is to &#8220;print&#8221; them into a PDF file. Adobe&#8217;s Acrobat program provides a printer driver to create such files from anything that you can print.
Of course, Acrobat is out of reach for many people, or at least, we don&#8217;t have any desire [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.computerforchristmas.com/blog/2008/10/16/create-pdf-files-for-free/</link>
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