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Thursday, November 16, 2006
Help me make a gift list
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s a yearly ritual - I end up writing a column and sometimes a news story about high tech holiday gifts.
There are the obvious high ticket items - computers, HDTVs, digital cameras and camcorders.
And in the middle there are iPods and competing players, as well as DVD players, and satellite radio.
It’s all fairly predictable and that’s the problem - I’d love to come up with some high tech gift ideas that are new … something besides GPS systems and game consoles.
If you have high tech gift items to add to my list, then I’d sure be glad to have the help.
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Go slow when it comes to Vista
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ll be telling my readers that it’s not smart to be first in line when it comes to moving from Windows XP to Windows Vista. There are plenty of reasons for doing that. Even if Vista is rock solid, right out of the box, support lines will be jammed. And tech support people - like other folk - learn by doing, so the advice will be faster and more accurate as time goes along.
I say all this knowing that I’ll be moving to Vista right away - in fact, like some of you, I already have a beta copy on one of my machines. But, for most users, slow is good when it comes to changing from one operating system to another.
While XP is getting old, it isn’t a bad OS.
And there are ways to tweak and tune it to work even better. You’ll find some advice on how to do that here.
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