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Rogers Wireless
Rogers Wireless is considered to be Canada's largest wireless provider, with the largest coverage area of the country. Though they are frequently changing their name, it may still be referred to as Rogers AT&T, Cantel, Cantel AT&T, Rogers, AT&T.
Mobility- Updated Jun 8th, 2003 by Christian Bauer
Telus Mobility
If you remember clearNET, you probably know that Telus Corporation acquired it in late 2000. Since then, not much has changed as Telus Mobility still offers cool phones, unique price plans and free calling on your birthday!
- Mobility
- Updated Jun 8th, 2003 by Christian Bauer
NAFTA: Billion dollar trade theft from Canadians
- Consumer Reports
- Updated May 12th, 2003 by Roy Whyte
Microsoft Office: Troubled times ahead?
One of the most popular office software, Microsoft Office, has been the standard for companies to do their work on. Whether it is spreadsheets, documents or even presentations, MS Office was the only tool that was widely accepted.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Feb 28th, 2003 by Michael Levy
Preventing Viruses
This article is going to discuss the easiest ways that you can protect your PC with some easy to follow tips and whatnots to make sure your computer is not infected by viruses
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Feb 14th, 2003 by Michael Levy
Mobile Storage Solutions
Carrying your important documents is not such a big feat anymore. Within the last 2 years, mobile storage solutions have increasing became popular and moving documents from one place to another has become so much easier.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Jan 19th, 2003 by Michael Levy
Free Software Alternatives
This article is going to show you how you can accomplish tasks with similar or even better software. Why spend money on software when there are alternatives for almost every single category of applications that is being used on a daily basis?
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Jan 14th, 2003 by Michael Levy
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 EOL (end of life)
It has been one of the most important releases in the history of personal computing. Windows 3.x and Windows 95 will be no more. These two operating systems, changed the face that we know of as personal computing.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Dec 28th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Computer buying guide
Now is the perfect time to buy a computer since all the specials and great offers appear since the kids are going back to school, so most major vendors cut prices, add additional software or some free peripheral just to get you to buy from them.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Computer safety
Avoiding computer viruses or threats on the internet is nearly impossible. There is some sort of threat whether you'd be using your internet to respond to email or do such things as downloading files and talking on IRC.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Erasing your Internet history
Cookies are small bits of code that are passed onto your computer from websites that you've visited. Cookies tell the website you visited some information about you, what's your IP address, what kind of operating system you are using, what browser and version.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by CC Staff
PC, Windows and Internet Security
This guide will inform people about the neccessities of Personal Computer security. The risks of not having one of the following products could leave your computer open to attacks and loss of data.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Printer buying guide
When looking to buy a new printer, there are many things to check out. This guide will tell you what to look for when purchasing a new or even a second printer for your home or homeoffice.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
USB vs. Firewire
USB 2 is the next generation of the Universal Serial Bus, which the first USB products trickled out back in the Pentium days. USB 1.1 is, for the most part, available on the majority of today's computers.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Comparison of compression software
It has been a while since we've done this but in this issue, we are comparing compression programs. Some of the contenders will be WinZip 8.1, PicoZip 2.5, WinRar 3.11, PowerArchiver 8, ArchiveXpert 2.02, ArchiveXP 2003 8e and WinAce 2.2.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Oct 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
FreedomNet
The net is growing and people with slow connections such as dialup hate wasting their time waiting for banners to load and thus makes your waiting time increase for no reason. I'm not saying banners are a bad thing, but sometimes it just gets annoying when someone puts a very large one and takes may be over a minute to load the page where without the banners it would take about 10 seconds.
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Aug 10th, 2002 by Michael Levy
Too much RAM
RAM prices have dropped considerably within the past few months. At one point 128mb of PC133 RAM costed over $100us when there was a shortage, now with the high demand of RAM, prices have dropped well under $0.50 a mb. Does too much make your computer slower?
- Reviews and Guides
- Updated Aug 2nd, 2002 by Michael Levy