About Alan Tutorials Free files Win9x FAQs E-mail Alan Articles BIV articles Archive 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Other articles Archive 1991-92 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 Articles published by Alan Zisman: 2008 December 24: Unbuntu Linux and Boot Camp Make It Easy to Create a Triple Boot Mac; LowEnd Mac December 21: New MacBook Trackpad Takes Some Getting Used To; LowEnd Mac December 16-22: How to keep your laptop from becoming another Christmas crime statistic; Business in Vancouver December 9-15: A smorgasbord of timely tech gift suggestions; Business in Vancouver December 2- December 8: Threatscape 2.0 and more scary security stories for business owners; Business in Vancouver November 25- December 1: Microsoft’s Windows 7 could be showing Vista the door; Business in Vancouver November 18-24: Tips on how to ease the office pain of password security; Business in Vancouver November 11-17: Open-source office software is becoming an increasingly viable Microsoft alternative; Business in Vancouver November 4-10: Surprise Microsoft patches and Internet security breaches; Business in Vancouver October 28: CrossOver Mac Free for Just One Day, Low End Mac October 28- November 3: Simplicity of Clickfree data backup makes it a good bet for small businesses; Business in Vancouver October 21-27: Calgoo wants a date with your desktop calendar; Business in Vancouver October 14-20: Samsung’s Instinct offers Bell and Telus customers an iPhone wannabe; Business in Vancouver October 7- 13: BlackBerry Bold is the BMW of smart phones; Business in Vancouver October 2: CodeWeavers Brings Google's Chrome Browser to Intel Macs; Low End Mac September 30- October 6: Apple innovation grounded in exploiting useful technologies that are available now; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEndMac September 23- 29: MacBook Air proves to be worthy travelling companion; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEndMac September 16-22: Microsoft has ironed out most of Vista’s wrinkles; Business in Vancouver September 9-15: For online business security, size doesn’t matter; Business in Vancouver September 2-8: This Acrobat juggling a host of new video and online PDF file features; Business in Vancouver September: Restricting what's fair; Columbia Journal September: Google doesn't make us stupid, but it does change what we should be; CUE BC Newsletter August 19-25: Your annual computer security hysteria alert; Business in Vancouver August 12-18: Firefox rolls out more heavy artillery in new browser wars; Business in Vancouver August 5-11: Ubuntu offers an exciting alternative for the Vista-wary; Business in Vancouver July 29- August 4: More roadworthy gear to keep you plugged in while on vacation; Business in Vancouver July 22-28: Apple’s App Store: the real key to the iPhone’s success; Business in Vancouver July 21: Free VirtualBox for Mac Now a Virtual Contender; LowEndMac July 15-21: Telecommuting at Telus making good business sense; Business in Vancouver July 8: Time Machine Can Now Backup to a Shared Hard Drive; LowEndMac July 8-14: Zune debuts in Canada as a much improved iPod competitor; Business in Vancouver July 1-7: Quest for small and light turns up the nifty Shift... Business in Vancouver July 1: SanDisk Sansa Clip a Low Cost Alternative to iPods for Mac Users; LowEndMac June 30: Leopard Makes It Easy to Share Your Mac's Screen Locally and Over the Internet; LowEndMac June 24-30: Honey, HP shrunk their notebooks; Business in Vancouver June 17-23: Vado zooms in on camcorder niche; Business in Vancouver June 10-16: Lighter digital SLR camera less of a pain in the neck; Business in Vancouver June 9: Streaming Video on the Cheap; CUE-BC June 9: Google Docs- free collaboration tools for teachers and students; CUE-BC June 3-9: Toshiba’s light weight laptop heavyweight; Business in Vancouver May 27- June 2: More valuable computer security from McAfee; Business in Vancouver May 20-26: Wins and losses in the ongoing battle against spam and malware; Business in Vancouver May 20: SheepShaver Brings Classic Mac OS to Intel Macs and Leopard; LowEndMac May 13-19: The pros and cons of handing your company’s e-mail over to Google; Business in Vancouver May 12: Free Time Machine Editor Does One Thing and Does It Well; LowEndMac May 6-12: Local companies helping make dream of paperless office a reality; Business in Vancouver Ailing computers and online answers; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEndMac April 22-28: Microsoft’s long Windows XP goodbye; Business in Vancouver April 16: Open Computer: The First Macintosh Clone in a Decade; LowEnd Mac April 15-21: Adobe offering free online photo services; Business in Vancouver April 8-14: More saving graces: USB drives come of age; Business in Vancouver April 1-7: Microsoft Office 2008 a mixed bag for Mac owners; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEndMac (April 2 2008) March 25-31: A welcome pair of missing manuals to help users exploit Vista and Leopard operating system advantages; Business in Vancouver; reposted to Low End Mac under the title: Get More Out of Leopard and Vista with These Helpful Volumes (March 31 2008) March 18-24: Weighing up the tech value of an ounce of prevention; Business in Vancouver March 15: Get to Know CD virtually gets Canadian elementary students out of the classroom; CUE-BC Newsletter March 11-17: Virus makers train sights on older applications; Business in Vancouver March 4-10: An ode to the late, great Netscape browser; Business in Vancouver February 26- March 3: Little for Microsoft to celebrate on Vista’s first birthday; Business in Vancouver February 19-25: Safely navigating the Mac crash zone; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEndMac February 12-18: Your best first line of computer security defence: you; Business in Vancouver February 5- 11: Sage Software targets small business accounting needs; Business in Vancouver January 29- February 4: MacBook Air might be too lightweight for serious users; Business in Vancouver; reposted on LowEnd Mac January 22-28: Laptop sales accelerating the pace of office wireless developments; Business in Vancouver January 14- 20: Trying to beat the high cost of mobile Internet access; Business in Vancouver January 7- 13: Affordable mobile data rates and other items for 2008’s technology hope chest; Business in Vancouver Alan Zisman is a Vancouver educator, writer, and computer specialist. 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