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There are three laptops:

1. Acer Asphire
2. Dell Vostro 1500
3. Dell Inspiron 1525

You just use it for PowerPoint, word processing, and all day online. Which should you buy?

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Two common types of built-in laptop hardware serve the same purpose as a separate, moveable mouse or trackball:

• Touchpad: A pressure-sensitive rectangle that sits in front of the spacebar. The onscreen insertion point or selection point moves in response to the movement of your finger on the pad: up, down, left, or right. The touchpad is, obviously, much smaller than the full LCD screen; this may mean that you have to slide your finger across the pad several times to get to the top or bottom, left or right of the image. Figure 1 shows a typical touchpad.

• Stick or pointer: Usually embedded in the keyboard and extending slightly above the height of surrounding keys. Software interprets the push of your finger (and the amount of pressure applied) to move the cursor at varying rates of speed.

Under both designs - touchpad and stick - you also find a pair of action buttons nearby. The buttons are the equivalent of the left or right mouse buttons and are used to issue commands, make selections, or call up context-sensitive menus. Most touchpad designs also permit an alternate means of communicating the pressing of a mouse button; a double tap of the touchpad with the finger can be interpreted as a left mouse click.

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If you’ve used the G-Archiver program to back up your Gmail (aka Google Mail) email, you’ve got a headache on your hands. The program has been revealed to be a malicious spyware app that emails your Gmail username and password to a secret Gmail account.

This revelation is especially troubling because most Gmail users use a single Google account to access a wide range of services. Those with AdSense accounts or Google Checkout accounts could face severe financial losses if their Gmail password were to fall into the wrong hands.

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I’m always amazed at how many people volunteer their email address on forums and comments sections. I suppose no one told them spammers use programs that crawl the Web in search of email addresses, or perhaps they just don’t care. As a site owner, I often hesitate about posting my email address publicly, but sometimes it’s inevitable.

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A terrific side effect of installing a computer network in your home is the ability to share a printer. Households without networks face some difficulties when it comes to printing. Network-deficient households have to rely on some less-than-perfect solutions.

If you want all the computers on your network to be able to access a single printer, you have to set up the Windows printer-sharing feature. Then you have to set up the printer for sharing. You perform these tasks at the computer to which the printer is connected.

The most difficult part of setting up network printing is deciding which computer gets the printer. Here are some common guidelines you can follow:

• Location. If you have room for a table at one computer location (and storage space for paper), that’s the computer to choose.
• Usage patterns. If one computer on the network is used far more often than any other computer, that’s the computer to select.

Some households have more than one printer. You may have a black-and-white printer as well as a color printer. When you enable printer sharing, each user can choose a printer every time he or she wants to print.

You can attach two printers to one computer if that’s more convenient, as long as the computer has sufficient ports. If one printer uses the printer port, and the other printer connects to the USB port, just plug them in. If both printers use printer ports, you can add a second printer port to the computer (it’s expensive). If both printers use USB connections, you probably have a second (or third or fourth) USB port. If you don’t have any empty USB ports, you can buy a USB hub (which adds ports).

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