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Read More Jan 8 10 ‘Awesome’ iPhone Applications By Jason Faulkner | comments(0) While I am not an iPhone user (I am still happy with my ancient flip phone), I am sure many of our readers here are. So for you iPhone users, I thought I would pass along an article on Wired you might want to take a look at: 10 Most Awesome iPhone Apps of 2008.The [...] Jan 7 Day 3: Creating a Product To Sell Online By David Risley | comments(0) We continue laying out your Internet strategy as we begin day 3 of “3 Day Money”.In this video, I talk about creating your product. Creating an information product to sell isn’t as hard as you might think it is. It can actually be very easy. In fact, there are several shortcuts! Please Login or Register [...] Jan 7 Buying Stuff Online? Shipping Stuff? ZIP + 4 Matters By Rich Menga | comments(2) Do you buy or sell things on eBay? Many PCMech readers do.Do you buy things from sites like NewEgg or TigerDirect? Many PCMech readers do.As great as technology is, in the United States we all rely on the postal system to ship and receive all our physical items.To ensure shipped stuff get to where it’s [...] Jan 7 16 Free Games - Part 2 By Rich Menga | comments(2) Did you get your fill of games from part 1? We didn’t think so! So here’s part two. FreecivThis has been mentioned on PCMech before and definitely gets a spot on this list because, well, it’s the best Civilization clone there is - and very addictive. FreecolIf you liked Civilization, you probably liked Colonization as [...] Jan 7 Log TCP And UDP Traffic On Windows By Jason Faulkner | comments(2) Spyware, by its nature, tends to ‘phone home’. That is, it gathers information about you and then transmits it secretly to another location. The traditional way to combat this is to have a bunch of monitoring utilities or scanners to detect this, but a more advanced way is to simply gather the data yourself and [...] Jan 6 Day 2: The Sales Funnel By David Risley | comments(0) We continue laying out your Internet strategy.In this video, I will show you the sales funnel. This is a very important concept to understand when it comes to designing a money-making system online. Please Login or Register to read the rest of this article. Gold/Silver Membership required. Please Login or Register to read the rest [...] Jan 6 3 Tips On Buying Laptop Batteries By Rich Menga | comments(2) Throughout the history of laptops, one thing that basically hasn’t changed all that much is the battery. It is the power source that makes your portable computer portable.The vast majority of laptops use Lithium Ion (abbreviated Li-ion) batteries. Before that was nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) and before that Nickel Cadmium (NiCd or NiCad).For those wondering if [...] Jan 6 16 Free Games - Part 1 By Rich Menga | comments(5) Here’s a list of free games you can get right now. All of them are ready for download and don’t cost a dime.I’ve made a point to choose games that are at least somewhat recent (if not very recent concerning releases) so that they run a-okay on your computer.Note: Many of these games run on [...] Jan 6 Avert Disasters With A UPS By Jason Faulkner | comments(3) If you don’t have one already, you might want to consider getting an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). The reason is simple: a power outage or spike can occur at any time which can wipe out not only what you are currently working on, but possibly your computer components as well.A UPS’s job is simply to [...] Jan 5 Day 2: The “Grand Plan” For an Online Empire By David Risley | comments(0) We continue laying out your Internet strategy.In this video, I will connect the dots. I’ve gone over blogging. I’ve addressed creating a product to sell. I’ve talked about social media and how to use it to build your online empire. In this video, I’m going to show you how all these dots connect and how [...] Jan 5 Wake-Up Call - Back Up Your External Data By Rich Menga | comments(1) The advice to back up your data is something that is probably said at least once every 5 seconds by some random person on the internet.Every person who says this is 100% correct. You should back up your data often.However what isn’t ordinarily covered is how to back up your data that you have out [...] Jan 5 10 Ways To Make Windows XP Look And Feel Better By Rich Menga | comments(4) Chances are you’re probably going to stick around with XP until Windows 7 comes along. And even then you may wait. If that’s what you plan to do, no problem. You can do a few things to get XP to look and feel better.1. Use the Zune themeThe Zune theme is available here:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078This gives XP [...] Jan 5 NewEgg’s Daily Deals RSS Feed By Jason Faulkner | comments(0) From browsing the forums, I can tell a lot of our readers shop at NewEgg. And why not? Their prices are competitive and service is very good. If you frequent NewEgg for your computer needs, then you might be interested in the Daily Deals RSS Feed.From the RSS description:An up-to-date headlines on our latest sales, [...] Jan 4 Extensions For You Firefox Tab Lovers By Jason Faulkner | comments(0) Most PCMech readers probably make good use of the tabs in their browser. Firefox users looking for some extensions to make their life easier might want to take a look at this article on Linux.com.The appropriately titled article “Recent Firefox extensions for tab addicts” covers about a dozen different extensions you might be interested in. [...] « Previous Entries Follow PCMechRSS FeedVia EmailFollow on Twitter sr_adspace_id = 3049707; sr_adspace_width = 300; sr_adspace_height = 250; sr_adspace_type = "graphic"; sr_ad_new_window = true;Got The Newsletter?Exclusive PCMech Content. 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