What You Need to Know about All Things PC
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The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com What You Need to Know about All Things PC Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee Editor in Chief: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, January 11, 2001 - Vol. 4 No. 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Information in the Right Hands (by Dan Butler) ** 03. Palm Mobile Internet Kit (by Al Gordon) ** 04. Safely Testing Your AntiVirus Package with the EICAR Test File: Part 2 (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 05. Computers vs. Consumer Electronics (by T.J. Lee) ** 06. Featured Tip - Google Browser Buttons ** 07. Featured Book - "How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk" by Faber & Mazlish ** 08. Featured Web Site - RefDesk: Best Source of Facts on the Net ** 09. Featured Product - SysTrayPlay ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and other interesting stuff ** 11. We Get Mail ** 01. Letter from the Publisher Welcome to the new millennium (certainly not to be confused with the New Economy, which seems to be going the way of the dodo)! A brand new year (for most calendars) and a brand new issue of TNPC. We here at the Underground Labs hope all of you had a great holiday season. In this issue Dan provides some sage advice about how to prepare in order to be a good neighbor in the event of an emergency. Al launches the first in a series of productivity-enhancing articles on handhelds. Jim sees plenty of intriguing--and confusing-- cross-over coming between computers and consumer devices, and he proceeds to explain some interestng options, especially for those of you considering a DVD player in the near future. Meanwhile, Lee follows up with the results of his informal poll about safely testing your anti-virus package. We're bringing you a full menu of Feature items this time around: a book to help you communicate, a Web site to help you find facts, an MP3 player product that hides politely in your system tray, and tips for using the Google search engine. We've added a new feature to the TNPC Web site for the e-shoppers among you. There's now a "Hot Hardware" box in the left margin of each page (scroll down towards the bottom of the page). Currently we highlight links to a baker's dozen of the most popular handhelds. We'll frequently update the Hot Hardware box, so keep your eyes peeled. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/index2.html To read this issue online from our Web site click here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/backissues/v4i01.html As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so PLEASE help us and pass a copy of TNPC on to co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and remember to always say "I saw it in TNPC!" http://www.TheNakedPC.com/refer/ +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ PHOTON MICRO-LIGHTS! Our Photon Micro-Lights continue to be a best seller beyond our wildest expectations! Reader comments pour in: "I bought 3 [and] am now ordering 4 more and the Accessory Kit to give away as gifts" "Liked the first 2, and decided to get 6 more" "very bright - they're GREAT!" Micro-Lights are the BRIGHTEST flashlights for their size in the WORLD. Reliable, incredibly bright light for any situation. These LED marvels produce light in your choice of Red, Orange, or Yellow; superbrights: Green, Turquoise, Blue, or White. Order today! http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?sponsor1 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. Information in the Right Hands (by Dan Butler) The Internet has been touted as a way to satisfy nearly every need we have. Witness the DotComGuy who just recently left his house for the first time after spending one year dealing with the world solely via his laptop on the Internet. He ordered his food, bought furniture, telecommuted to work, all online. But our computer culture also insulates us from the real world and in ways I'd not thought about in some time. My computer has tons of information stored on it but it won't help me find my car keys. And, as a recent tragic event underscored, there are some pieces of information that would be better stored in the hands of my neighbors. Early last week I heard strange noises coming from my front door. Thinking it was one of the kids playing I didn't pay much attention. A few moments later my wife was frantically trying to get information from someone. It was a neighbor who was in terrible pain, and having terrible difficulty communicating to us in English, which was not her first language, due to the distress she was in. After notifying 911 we went about the task of contacting her spouse figuring he would have best chance of calming her down and asking her the questions the paramedics would undoubtedly need answers to. This proved difficult as our neighbor was in no condition to give us the phone number. The paramedics arrived and wanted to go next door to look for any special medications and a phone number for the spouse. One problem, the person had locked their door on the way to our house, and didn't have a key. As you can imagine this made for a very stressful situation for everyone trying to help. As we later found out our neighbor had suffered a serious heart attack and had to have surgery. I'm thankful that our family was home to be of some help in a time of need. But it was a sharp lesson about "being prepared" for everyone in our neighborhood. We now have the crucial contact information on hand should anything else every arise again. What about you? Are you ready should an emergency pop up in your neighborhood? Do you have the information you need to contact your neighbors at work? Do they have the information to contact you? Having a key piece of information in the right hands could save your house or your life, or the life of a loved one. Just being aware of each other helps. It's not just dire medical situations that can arise. Maybe it's as mundane as a broken water line. Jim had an experience in his old neighborhood where a car came around a corner too fast and wound up in the back bedroom of one of his neighbors. Luckily he did have the phone number to call his neighbor at work who was able to come home and deal with the situation. But it could also be something serious like a fire, or a severe weather event like a tornado. Let's not forget the real world around us and make sure we are in a position to help our neighbors and that they are in a position to help us! Here's the minimum information I suggest you exchange with your neighbors: * Home phone number * Work phone number * Emergency contact numbers (someone outside the family just in case) * Other information that might be helpful such as special medications * Any medical conditions (diabetes, epilepsy, etc.) Put this together in clearly marked envelopes. And share it with each of the neighbors. Then update your information annually. Finally, feel good about what you've done. You may be saving a life with your actions. 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The company, which dominates the handheld PDA (personal digital assistant) market, spent the past year spinning off from 3Com; concluding numerous deals to license the Palm OS to such powerhouse companies as Sony, Samsung, and Nokia; and acquiring a number of key software and Internet-based products for the handheld platform. What Palm hasn't done much of, however, is update its product lineup. Other than to provide versions of its III, V, and VII series with more memory, Palm's sole new handheld has been its m100 entry-level piece. It is cooler looking than the previous low-end III series units it replaces and has snap-on color faceplates for those who like to give their electronics a distinctive look. But technically it does not advance the state of the art at all. Palm cranked out press releases back in June proclaiming that it would add expansion capabilities to future products via a slot for Secure Digital (SD) cards, and Internet capabilities through a Palm Mobile Internet Kit. Well, .500 is not a bad batting average, I guess. The Internet kit just now is making its way to the market. For now, Palm's own Web site is the only place to get one: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?alg1 But the product will be rolled out to the usual outlets in the next few weeks. This is the season for being charitable, so I will not mention that it would have been enormously smarter to have had the product in wide circulation before Christmas. Admittedly, the MIK is more of a corporate toy than a consumer item, but last time I checked, the business world gives holiday gifts, too. Too bad, because the $39.95 MIK actually is a breakthrough product. It allows you to take a Palm and a supported cell phone and access the Internet. It will work totally wirelessly if you have a cell phone with infrared capabilities. Otherwise, you can hook up with TDK Systems Europe's Global Pulse cables: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?alg2 The Global Pulse Nokia cable, for example, works with the popular 51xx and 61xx series phones and both the III and V series Palms. List price is about $100, but the street price is under $70. The new wrinkle here is that it does not require a dedicated wireless data network such as Palm.net for the Palm VII or the OmniSky network for Palm V. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?alg3 Basically if your cell carrier and cell phone supports data transmission (typically called "PCS" service), you can use the MIK. The bundle includes MultiMail, long the top email package for the Palm (and which Palm acquired) plus the Palm Web "clipping" applications carried over from the VII. Clippings are Web access applets that take the place of Web browsers. Basically, they generate skeletal Web pages; minimal or no graphics and a layout that suits the dimensions of a handheld screen. Do not be under any illusion that this is total Internet browsing. It is the Web reduced to the basics. I personally prefer a more complete solution such as OmniSky, which supplements clipping with standard browsing of most Web sites, and has unlimited airtime. However, in the real world, you would be using your handheld for such Internet tasks as checking a stock quote, looking up an address, or making a quick transaction. And clipping does that without consuming too much of your precious and expensive cell phone airtime. Also, MIK is a little clunky. The cable approach can be awkward, and it can be difficult to keep the infrared ports of your phone and Palm in alignment. However, this is what the future is going to look like. Increasingly, disparate devices will be able to communicate with each other. New technologies such as Bluetooth may do so more elegantly than MIK, but those have yet to be much more than vaporware. MIK is here now. You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. Safely Testing Your AntiVirus Package with the EICAR Test File: Part 2 (by Lee Hudspeth) Part 1 of this article appeared in TNPC #3.24: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee1 In Part 1 I discussed how to test your anti-virus program with a simple, free test file called the EICAR test file. Thanks to everyone who wrote in with the results of these tests on their systems, I have some fascinating feedback. I've analyzed that feedback and will share it with you now. (Note: this is not a statistically rigorous analysis or data set, just the results of an informal poll.) All told, readers reported on ten different tools. There was a wide dispersion of pass/fail results, primarily because readers are using so many different versions of the same tool; for example, McAfee 4.0, 4.1, 4.5, 5.0, 5.13, and so on. Often it is the older engine versions that fail one or more of the EICAR tests. Since most tools' developers would have been aware of the EICAR standard from the outset, the currency of your virus definition files shouldn't affect the outcome of the EICAR tests. However, an older version of the software engine--not the definition virus files--might not be sophisticated enough to detect a double-zipped threat. (So it was in James W.'s case of McAfee engine 4.1.00 with definitions 4.0.4106; it failed the multilevel compressed file test. I'm not picking on McAfee, this is just an example; it was not the only tool to experience a failure of some kind.) With only one exception, every TNPCer in this survey who uses the free Personal Edition of InoculateIT likes--no, loves--it. The reader who took exception said, "[Two fails was] a little disappointing, but then again, it's free and I don't really use it." No one else reported any InoculateIT failures, but this reader's last comment caught my eye, "I don't really use it." I hope this reader *does* use another anti-virus program. We should all consider this reminder: To safely operate a PC today you must use an anti-virus tool *and* it should be properly configured, with email and background activity scanning turned on, set to regularly and automatically fetch updates. Here are the ten tools listed in order by their usage frequency (by those TNPC readers who performed the tests). * [44%] InoculateIT Personal Edition -- free engine & signature updates: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee2 * [21%] McAfee VirusScan: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee3 * [15%] Norton AntiVirus: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee4 * [ 4%] AVG AntiVirus -- free engine & signature updates: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee5 * [ 4%] Kaspersky AVP: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee6 * [ 4%] Trend Micro PC-Cillin: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee7 * [ 2%] Dr. Solomon: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee8 * [ 2%] Panda AntiVirus: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee9 * [ 2%] Trend Micro HouseCall -- free on-line virus scanner: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee10 * [ 2%] Vet Anti-Virus: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?lee11 You can contact Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 05. Computers vs. Consumer Electronics (by T.J. Lee) Lots of announcements and debuts at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. It seems that the division between computers and computer-powered consumer electronics is blurring and I thought I'd take a quick look at some of the cross-over technologies. First came Sony's PlayStation 2. The PlayStation 2 hit the streets in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season and sold out at the places lucky enough to stock them. But in its first incarnation the PlayStation 2 is a straightforward game console that you hook up to your television for playing video games. Not a threat to the venerable PC. Right? Well, consider that the PlayStation 2 is powered by a 300MHz 128- bit processor, comes with 32MB of system RAM, 4MB of graphics RAM, that you can now get a 56kbps modem add-on, and that a hard drive option is planned and will be available later this year. Starting to definitely sound more computer-like. Plus the PlayStation 2 will double as a DVD player for watching DVD movies on your television. Microsoft is trying to become a player in the game console market with its new Xbox, which it unveiled but which won't ship until late this year. The Xbox specs call for a 733MHz Pentium III processor, 64MB of system and graphics memory, and a 100Mbps Ethernet connection built in. Toshiba debuted their new NUON DVD player at CES and I found it to be one of the most interesting of the new product announcements I came across this week. NUON is a chip set technology developed by VM Labs Inc. of Mountain View, California, and gives a DVD player some nifty new potential. Consider that the Toshiba NUON DVD sports ports for adding game controllers so you can play DVD based video games. It also lets movie makers program a plethora of features into a movie DVD. 16X zoom with easy panning, multi-picture strobe, extremely smooth forward and reverse, and more become possible (although DVD content providers have to take advantage of these features). And of course there's an add-on planned that will let you surf the Web using the DVD player and your television. While I don't consider any of these a replacement for a PC they do present a problem for those of you out there thinking of getting your first DVD player. Should you go for a straight movie-only player or a player with more future potential like a NUON-enhanced DVD player? If you like games a PlayStation 2 doubles as both a game console and a DVD player. And the Xbox is still looming on the horizon... You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Get UCmore Today - It's FREE Cut through Web clutter with UCmore, the FREE "anti-search" tool! 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Google has created three bookmarks you can add to your personal toolbar folder in Netscape or Internet Explorer: Google Search, GoogleScout, and Google.com. You can find them here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?ftip There is a note saying the buttons aren't available for Internet Explorer 5.5. Several people have reported that the buttons do work with I.E. 5.5 so give them a try. Being bookmarks, you can always delete them if they don't work. Google Search has two functions. First highlight any text on your current Web page. Click the button and search Google for that text. If nothing is highlighted a small dialog box pops up. Enter your search terms and click enter to immediately search Google for those terms. GoogleScout will search Google for pages similar to the page you are currently viewing. Google.com is simply a bookmark to Google's main page. The only thing missing from the Google search tool is the surprisingly useful "I'm feeling lucky" button. 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Don't be fooled by the title into thinking the techniques apply only to communicating with kids. They apply equally well to communication between people of any age and background. If you're reading this at work and thinking about your irascible boss or an inscrutable employee, this will be a really good book for you. The premise of the book is to learn how to l-i-s-t-e-n when your child (or spouse, boss, employee, etc.) talks to you. The book calls this "listening with full attention." Another key point is understanding that a child is not a small person; little person; minor; or some kind of lesser, sub-adult being. A child is a human being positively brimming over with potential, energy, ideas, needs, emotions, dreams. Sure, a child doesn't have the legal right to vote, serve in the armed forces, or drive a car, but those are insignificant things in the context of how you relate to and communicate with that child. Each chapter provides well-defined, effective steps for its particular goal. These include helping children deal with their feelings, engaging cooperation, alternatives to punishment, encouraging autonomy, praise, and freeing children from playing roles. I give "How To Talk..." a very high recommendation. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?fbook If you have a personal favorite book that covers communication, learning, or helping children develop, drop me a line. You can contact Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com ** 08. Featured Web Site - RefDesk: Best Source of Facts on the Net The RefDesk site is another compilation of links and sites organized to get you quickly to the source of the facts you need on just about any subject you can imagine. Want to get to the official Atomic Clock site of the U.S. Government? Want to know what bird watchers in England are called? (Answer: twitchers.) What historic events happened on this date? What famous people were born on this day? Quotations, almanacs, encyclopedias, the Mayo Clinic, you name it and you can find it somewhere on the RefDesk main page. It's amazing how many reference information links they've crammed all onto one Web page. A good place to start when looking for the facts. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?fsite ** 09. Featured Product - SysTrayPlay MP3 player utilities are ubiquitous, and they are typically designed as bloated windows that cramp your desktop. Our colleague Mike Craven recently discovered and recommended SysTrayPlay to us, and now we're recommending it to you. Youri Stous is the developer of this elegant but tiny (a meager 183 KB) freeware MP3 player. SysTrayPlay runs in the system tray where it politely stays out of your way, leaving your desktop uncluttered. SysTrayPlay includes an equalizer with presets and the ability to save custom settings; a simple playlist editor; a MiniBar; options to repeat playlist, repeat track, shuffle, and randomly select first track; and numerous intelligent, advanced settings should you need them. And yes, it's skinnable. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?fproduct ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff *-* Hey! have you come across something newsworthy? Drop us a line: mailto:hottips@TheNakedPC.com *-* In an amazing example of "take aim at foot and fire" logic, eBay decided to change the preference settings on nearly six million user accounts opening them up to a flood of telemarketing because the original setting on the preference form defaulted to "no" when it should have defaulted to "yes." So millions of eBayers were sent a confusing notice telling them that they had to change their preference settings to "no" if they meant "no" because they were being reset to "yes" because they should have been "yes" so that they would have to have been changed to "no" originally. Got that? eBay users are not happy campers over this. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?news1 *-* Microsoft announced it will release a version of Mac OS X Office in the fall. Microsoft becomes the first significant software developer to back Apple's next-generation operating system. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?news2 *-* There's a bill before the United States Congress that would make it a criminal act to send a solicitation to a wireless device without that individual's express permission. They're trying to keep wireless devices like cell-phones spam free. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/401/tr.cgi?news3 Get more Newsworthy bits on the TNPC Web site: http://www.thenakedpc.com/newsworthy/ ** 11. 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