To prepare for worst, back up
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Computer users should be leery of a device that can wipe out years of important personal data in a moment: the home computer. Backing up is an important task that every user should perform regularly. Tape drives while fast and inexpensive, compress data, so it is difficult to see at a glance what data is there. 1.44 MB floppy disks are commonplace, but by today's standards, useful for holding only a (text) file or two. The best options for home users are a Zip drive, a write-able CD drive, or a remote drive, accessed over the Web.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Spy software puts home PC's under surveillance
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SpectorSoft is offering 'Spector' surveillance software designed to run on Windows-based personal computers. The "snoopware" sells for $49.95 and is designed to track and record everything that shows up on a PC, including keystrokes, passwords, Web pages and e-mail. Oringinally intended for parents wishing to keep track of their children's computer usage, the software has found a wider market consisting of suspicious wifes, husbands, bosses and private investigators. The software program runs in "stealth" mode in the background and can only be played back by the person holding the proper combination of "keys" and passwords. SpectorSoft also markets a remotely controlled version called 'eBlaster' for people wanting to track computer movements from another machine. The use of such software has generated debate over the right to privacy versus the right to be protected from possible harm.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 2000
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Is it word processing, or desktop publishing?; as the programs borrow from each other, the lines blur and the options grow
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Two new software releases, Aldus Pagemaker 4.0 and Quark Express 3.0, combine features from desktop publishing and word processing into super desktop document programs. These programs can be seen as desktop publishing programs that incorporate the best features of word processing programs such as spell checkers, search and replace capabilities, document templates and editing features. Pagemaker 4.0 will retail for $795 and will handle documents as long as 999 pages. Pagemaker has features for making it easy to create tables of contents and indexes for publications. Both publications make working with graphics and text much simpler, but Quark's Express 3.0 does the better job, allowing graphics to rotated through a complete circle. Express also has a library feature that will store up to 2,000 commonly used graphics.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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