LapLink manages all your data across all your PCs
Article Abstract:
Traveling Software's $140 LapLink for Windows is an excellent product for those users needing to transfer and/or synchronize files among two or more computers. In recent years, this has become increasingly important as many computer users have setups at work and home, or carry a laptop on their travels. LapLink's remote control features enable a user to control another computer through phone lines, regardless of proximity. This can be achieved with or without the benefit of a network on the remote side; users may dial into a single PC even if a network is present. Systems can also be connected with cables so that files can be transferred and synchronized. The synchronization feature analyzes files on each machine and updates all matches to the newest version. Despite LapLink's ease-of-use, buyers should still have a good working knowledge of file directory structures, which can be confusing in Windows systems.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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With e-mail, you'll get the message without the hang-ups
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Electronic mail is one of the best available features for computer users who want to communicate with other users all over the world for incredibly low prices. Users do not need to be linked to an e-mail service through a university or a company but can simply order any one of a number of commercial on-line services. America Online is one service that offers e-mail access to the Internet and costs about $9.95 per month for five hours of access time. Prodigy also offers Internet access but is not as easy to use and Compuserve charges users for receiving their e-mail messages. There are also two services, called NetCruiser from NetCom and PSI's Pipeline USA, which only offer direct access to the Internet but have higher service charges of $20 per month, which may be too much for users who are only planning to use the service for e-mail.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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A browser road map: shortcuts for trips on the World Wide Web
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Tips that can speed and simplify navigating with a browser are presented and explained. For example, in the same way that a word processing program lets a user open many documents at the same time, a user can work with more than one open browser window. Moreover, these windows can download information from the Internet independently and simultaneously. The trick is to click on the right mouse button (or, on a single-button Mac, to hold the control key down and click). New windows can also be opened via the menu bar's 'File' command. Using a browser in this way makes efficient use of modem capacity. Switching between windows can be accomplished using the task bar in Windows 95 or 98, with multiple windows each being represented by a separate button.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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