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April 18, 2006 ISSUE 219
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl219.htm -
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IN THIS ISSUE:
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1. Weekly Computer Term
2. What's new in the news last week
3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
4. What's new at Computer Hope this week
5. Hot computer issues
6. All Talk
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1. Weekly Computer Term.
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Boolean ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/boolean.htm ) -
Developed by the English mathematician and computer pioneer George Boole, a Boolean consists of operators such as "AND", "OR", "NOT" and "XOR". Generally, Booleans are commonly used in programming and today in Internet search engines. Boolean expressions are expressions that result in the value of either TRUE or FALSE.
As mentioned above a user can use Boolean searches to help locate more exact matches in Internet searches. For example, a user could search for "computers help and DOS", which would search for any document containing computer help that also contain the word "DOS". Performing Boolean searches often help users find results relating more to what the user may need to find. In addition to using a Boolean operator many search engines also substitute "AND" with "+" and "NOT" with "-", so using our same above example a user could type "computer help +dos" to achieve the same results.
See the above link for an example chart and explanations of Boolean operations.
See our complete dictionary listing and a daily computer term at:
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
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2. What's new in the news last week?
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Top News Story: Google unveils Web-based calendar app
news.com.com -- Google on Thursday plans to unveil a much-anticipated, free Web-based calendar application that is expected to heat up the race with Yahoo and Microsoft.
04/13/2006 - Is Your OS a Pre-XP Version? Kiss Tech Support Good-Bye
04/13/2006 - Fox will put TV reruns on the Internet: report
04/13/2006 - Sprint unveils mobile child locator service
04/13/2006 - Top Web sites for March 2006: Yahoo!, Microsoft, MSN. MySpace is in top 10.
04/13/2006 - The tax man cometh after iTunes
04/13/2006 - Firefox update kills security bugs, adds Mac support
04/13/2006 - TiVo scores patent win against EchoStar
04/13/2006 - AOL charged with blocking opponents' e-mail
04/13/2006 - Natural light 'to reinvent bulbs'
04/13/2006 - Iceland comes first in broadband
04/13/2006 - Net clocks suffering data deluge
04/13/2006 - Microsoft backs Cyber Games
04/13/2006 - Lara Croft Nabs Guinness World Record
04/13/2006 - MySpace hires security chief
04/12/2006 - Red Hat Buys JBoss for $350 Million
04/12/2006 - Microsoft Launches Challenge to Google Scholar
04/12/2006 - Zillow offers bird's eye view of new neighborhoods
04/12/2006 - Russian Students Win Programming Contest
04/12/2006 - Google, eBay And Amazon To AT&T: We'll Build Our Own Network
04/12/2006 - Tax dodgers may lose friend in PayPal
04/12/2006 - Newsmaker: Are laser weapons ready for duty?
04/12/2006 - eBay buys stake in social networking firm
04/12/2006 - Google unveils Web-based calendar app
04/12/2006 - Google patent points to voice search
04/12/2006 - Where computers go to die -- and kill
04/12/2006 - Yahoo Offers 'Instant Search'
04/12/2006 - Google wins rights to Aussie algorithm
04/12/2006 - Web site exposes Air Force One defenses
04/12/2006 - MySpace tackles teen safety fears
04/12/2006 - Google launches Chinese service
04/12/2006 - China to tackle software piracy
04/12/2006 - Search users 'stop at page three'
04/12/2006 - Microsoft Cuts Price of MSN Dialup Internet Access
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?992006
Find all of the latest news and article headlines at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news.htm
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3. Computer viruses, worms, security, and/or privacy threats
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* Virus: No new virus news this week.
* Security:
Firefox update kills security bugs, adds Mac support
news.com.com -- Mozilla released an update to its Firefox Web browser Thursday that fixes several security flaws and, as expected, adds support for Macs with Intel processors.
MySpace hires security chief
vnunet.com -- The popular social networking web site MySpace has responded to growing fears about the security of its users by hiring a chief security officer for the first time.
* Privacy: No new privacy news this week.
Find a direct link to each of the above articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/news/security.htm
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4. What's new at Computer Hope this week?
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- Added new questions and answers.
- Continued work on web site scripts.
- Performed other minor updates throughout site.
Find up to the minute updates done to Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/whatnew.htm
See the top 10 pages on Computer Hope at:
http://www.computerhope.com/chtop10.htm
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5. Hot computer issues.
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Is MS-DOS case sensitive?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000797.htm
How do I remove a full directory in Linux?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000798.htm
Why is the hard disk drive the C: drive?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000799.htm
Find all of our issues and questions and answers at:
http://www.computerhope.com/qanda.htm
See all new questions and answer at:
http://www.computerhope.com/newqa.htm
See every Q&A in Computer Hopes database at:
http://www.computerhope.com/eqanda.htm
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6. All Talk
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* An undisclosed or unknown issue on AOL's mail server caused close to 800 Computer Hope newsletter subscribers who use AOL to not get this weeks newsletter. After talking with the AOL postmasters this issue appears to be a one time occurrence and should not happen again. If you did not receive this weeks newsletter you can still view it online at the below link.
http://www.computerhope.com/newslet.htmhttp://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
This week we recently came across "What Should I Read Next? a great site for users who have read a book in the past that they've enjoyed and are looking for something similar to read next. Simply put a book title and author in the search and get results of other books that you're likely to enjoy. The results are based off the results of 20,000 other real reader results.
We would love to hear your comments; suggestions, interests, opinions, fun web sites or what ever is on your mind. E-mail us at newsletter@computerhope.com
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