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October 15, 2007 ISSUE 260
COMPUTERHOPE.COM NEWSLETTER
- http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl260.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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Bronzing ( http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/bronzing.htm ) -
Also known as CD bronzing, bronzing is a type of corrosion that is similar to CD rot that is caused by a manufacturing defect. When bronzing occurs the top and/or bottom of the disc changes colors often changing from a silver color to a bronze, brown, yellow, or gold tint and over time can cause the CD to stop working. The company largely responsible for this defect was Philips & DuPont Optical (PDO) in Lancashire, United Kingdom with discs manufactured between 1988 and 1993.
Because this is an actual manufacturing defect no matter how the disc is handled if it's defective it will eventually become bad. However, as mentioned above this issue widely only affected discs manufactured in the late 80's and early 90's by PDO.
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: Internet gets first full census for 25 years
technology.newscientist.com -- An electronic census of the Internet's 2.8 billion addresses has been completed by US researchers. It is the first attempt to contact every web address since 1982 the results could help tackle the problem of the supply of unique Internet addresses running out.
10/14/2007 - Universal Takes Aim at iTunes; Can "Free" Music Work?
10/14/2007 - ICANN to test domain names in 11 languages
10/14/2007 - Google Skimps on Its Own Advertising
10/14/2007 - Unlocking hack appears for "blocked" iPhones
10/14/2007 - Microsoft Adds Event Planning to Live Services
10/14/2007 - A Bruise or Two on Apple's Reputation
10/13/2007 - Red Hat, Novell sued for patent infringement
10/13/2007 - Apple's iMac MXM Updater to cure iMac's Boot Camp woes
10/13/2007 - Microsoft Will Patch IE7 'URI' Hole
10/13/2007 - Broadband data reform bill advances in House
10/13/2007 - Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs.
10/13/2007 - Blazingly fast Internet2 just got 10 times faster
10/13/2007 - Geneva brings quantum cryptography to Internet voting
10/13/2007 - Internet gets first full census for 25 years
10/13/2007 - Internet growing at record pace, Apache losing ground quickly
10/13/2007 - Unreal Tournament 3 Beta demo unleashed today
10/13/2007 - Video games: the next generation
10/13/2007 - The Best of Japan's Largest Electronics Show
10/13/2007 - BEA rejects $6.7 billion Oracle offer
10/13/2007 - Windows XP SP3 to Include Some Vista Features
10/13/2007 - 3-Way SLI here in November?
10/13/2007 - Get Ready for Water-Powered Cell Phones
10/13/2007 - Google 'dominates world search'
10/13/2007 - Kenya awards Internet cable deal
10/13/2007 - Wi-fi health study gets go ahead
10/13/2007 - iTunes Tags Demystified
10/13/2007 - Some Tech Still a Time Sink at Work
10/13/2007 - GOOG-411 graduates from Labs
10/13/2007 - Researcher: Humans will wed robots
10/13/2007 - Wikipedia Hits Mid Life Slow Down
10/13/2007 - Shawn Fanning's Snocap lays off 60 percent of workforce
10/13/2007 - Google vows to increase Gmail storage limit
10/13/2007 - The Clock is Ticking for Joost
10/13/2007 - Google updates Linux version of Desktop
10/13/2007 - Microsoft says Automatic Update not misbehaving
10/13/2007 - Apple honors Al Gore on Nobel Prize
10/13/2007 - Facebook's app feeding frenzy
Find links to each of the above news articles at:
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/oldnews.cgi?2802007
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:
Microsoft Will Patch IE7 'URI' Hole
blogs.pcworld.com -- After basically stonewalling for the past three months, Microsoft late today announced it is indeed working on a patch for a severe security hole that turned up in Internet Explorer 7 last July.
Microsoft says Automatic Update not misbehaving
news.com -- Blogs were buzzing this week with reports that Windows users who thought they had automatic updates set to either not install or get permission before installing nonetheless had their machines patched and rebooted.
* 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 dictionary definitions.
- Posted new Q&A's
- Posted other various 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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How do I disable the Windows Vista User Account Control?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000937.htm
Printer printing smudged copies, lines, or distorted text or images.
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000938.htm
What is the normal.dot file?
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000940.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
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6. All Talk
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http://www.chumby.com/
We recently came across the Chumby an interesting portable device that is planned at costing under $200 and allows you to display information from the Internet that you wish to see on a 3.5" LCD touchscreen. For example, you could display the latest news, photos, music, traffic, gossip, weather, sports scores, blogs, eBay auctions, etc. The device connects to your wireless network and allows you to get up-to-date information any time.
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/
Users who are looking for a new free word processor, spreadsheet, and/or presentation software may also want to try out IBM Lotus Symphony. The program is now in beta and available for Microsoft Windows and Linux for free.
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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