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	<title>Castellini on Computers - Computer help for beginners &#187; Tech News</title>
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	<itunes:summary>Easy to understand computer help</itunes:summary>
	<itunes:author>Rick Castellini</itunes:author>
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		<title>PC World columnist says don&#8217;t upgrade from XP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC World columnist, David Coursey, writes this week that the hassle of upgrading a Windows XP computer to Windows 7 isn&#8217;t worth the time and price. It pretty much mimics the exact advice I gave to Windows XP users when Vista came out 2 1/2 years ago.
Software developers build software for the future, so older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airport security may screen you with a Nintendo Wii</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nintendo Wii, a gaming console you hook to your TV, became a runaway success since its release two years ago. About 9 months after its release, Nintendo released its wildly successful and popular Wii Fit with balance board. The balance board does a fantastic job of measuring balance, weight, center of gravity and more.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny digital camera mounted on an albatross&#8230;really</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/tiny-digital-camera-mounted-on-an-albatross-really.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Riding Shotgun with Rick]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ran across this interesting news story today. Scientists are starting to use small, 83 gram digital cameras capable of taking up to 10,000 pictures on animals. In this case, the camera was mounted on an albatross and they found that these albatross were feeding with killer whales&#8230;similar to buzzards and lions on the savanna. Following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive E-Mail Phishing Attack Hits Web</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/massive-e-mail-phishing-attack-hits-web.htm</link>
		<comments>http://helpmerick.com/massive-e-mail-phishing-attack-hits-web.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phishing refers to the act of trying to get your personal information in order to use or steal your identity. Phishing can happen with snail mail, email, text messaging, social networking, phone, and more. Today, I learned of a new threat aimed at web based email systems like Gmail, Yahoo email, MSN/HotMail, and others.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing a smart password, from the Gmail Blog</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/choosing-a-smart-password-from-the-gmail-blog.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written many times about passwords and their importance in keeping you safe online. Search the site for passwords to read them and also take a look at this article from the Gmail Blog at Google.
Official Gmail Blog: Choosing a smart password.


Related posts:Password ManiaPassword Problem at TwitterGoogle Docs privacy leak]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft’s Security Essentials</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft released an updated and completely re-tooled version of their computer security product. It is now called Microsoft Security Essentials. I have not had a chance to try it out yet (wasn&#8217;t accepted into the beta testing this summer), but through my reading it is getting much better scores than their awful Live OneCare products [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Net neutrality &#8211; It isn&#8217;t a political issue</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/net-neutrality-it-isnt-a-political-issue.htm</link>
		<comments>http://helpmerick.com/net-neutrality-it-isnt-a-political-issue.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of net neutrality is rearing its head again lately. In a nutshell, net neutrality means that anyone who pays for access to the Internet should get full, unfettered access to the Internet. Opponents want to allow Internet providers to charge for priority access to the Internet. In other words, if you forward an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a newspaper guy</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/im-a-newspaper-guy.htm</link>
		<comments>http://helpmerick.com/im-a-newspaper-guy.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never watch news channels or evening news programs. Since I could read, I enjoyed reading newspapers. Although seriously lacking in substance, I still enjoy reading a morning newspaper with my breakfast. I enjoy holding the paper, hearing the crinkle and being able to rip out articles, circle ads, and even separate circulars from it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quicken to buy Mint.com</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/quicken-to-buy-mint-com.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received a press release announcing that Quicken will buy Mint.com. Mint.com is an online financial manager that has received a lot of accolades the last few years. Quicken also offers an online version of their financial management software and this acquisition looks to strengthen that position.
Announcement: Mint.com to Join the Intuit Family &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google buys reCaptcha</title>
		<link>http://helpmerick.com/google-buys-recaptcha.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google just announced that they have bought reCaptcha. reCaptcha has been a leading company in helping to thwart comment and account spam by requiring a human to decipher characters and words scanned from books before continuing on in a posting or sign up process. Check out the article here:
Official Google Blog: Teaching computers to read: [...]]]></description>
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