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             Articles
published by
Alan Zisman: 2006
            
              December 26- January 2: Looking
Backwards; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office columnDecember 19- 25: Welcome to
your top 10 security threats for 2007; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnDecember 12- 18: Local
companies can help cut the office paper chase; Business in
Vancouver, High Tech Office columnDecember 5 -11: Microsoft
flights of fancy and other Christmas 2006 gift guide favourites;
Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office columnDecember:  Tools for schools- one up, one down: Quizam and
Yahooligans! CUE-BC NewsletterNovember 28- December 4: Taking
the pain out of upgrading computers; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnNovember 21: Parallels
Revisited: release version far more polished than beta; LowEndMac,
Mac2Windows columnNovember 21-27: Windows Vista:
coming soon to a computer near you; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnNovember 14-20: Spewers of
spam harnessing new tools; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnNovember 7- 13: Web browser
battles are back on the boil; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnOctober 31- November 6: Software
makes talking to computers easier than ever; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnOctober 24-30: Webcams
delivering on the 20th century’s PicturePhone promise; Business in
VancouverOctober 17- 23: Lessons on
keeping corporate data safe; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnOctober 10-16: Google’s Gmail
gets webmail service right; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
columnOctober 3-9: Two new ways to
stay connected on the go; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
columnSeptember 26- October 2: Beware
the hype of podcasts, blogs and Web 2.0; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnSeptember 19- 25: Ubuntu
offers another Windows alternative; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnSeptember 12- 18: A Tale of
Two Smartphones, Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office columnSeptember 11: iPod Drive
Failure: Culprit May Not Be the Drive, Fix May Be Free; Low End Mac,
Zis Mac columnSeptember 5-11: Novell’s Linux
option offers business smooth sledding; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnSeptember: Students
and Teachers Agree that Digital Tools Make Schoolwork More Fun; CUE
BC NewsletterSeptember: Two free
tools for Computer Self-Defense; Columbia JournalAugust 29- September 4: A
Canadian home for Windows orphans; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnAugust 28: Apple's
Product Line: Hiding Complexity Behind Elegant Simplicity; Low End MacAugust 22-28: Beware of bogus
anti-spyware software; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
column   August 21: 'Twice as Fast':
Did Apple Lie or Just Carefully Select Its Truths?, LowEndMac,
Mac2Windows columnAugust 15-21: Security policies need
to balance use of technologies; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnAugust 8-14: Let’s drink a
toast to the PC’s silver anniversary; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnAugust 8: Love OS X but
Need to Use Windows? FlyakiteOSX May Help; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnAugust 1-7: Desktop computers
still more reliable than laptops; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnJuly 26- 31: A roundup of top
summer tech tools; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office columnJuly 18-25: A selection of high-tech
tomes for summer reading; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
columnJuly 11-17: Genuine Advantage turns
into Microsoft disadvantage; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnJuly 4-10: Microsoft rolling
out major changes in its Office 2007; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnJuly: It's easier than
ever to break the Microsoft computing habit: Columbia JournalJune 27- July 3: Microsoft
rings down the curtain on Windows 98; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnJune 20-26: Money is driving
the proliferation of badware; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnJune 13- 19: Pirated software
costs continue to multiply; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
columnJune 6- 12: Wired still whipping
wireless in data; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office columnJune: Edubuntu: At
last, Linux for human teachers and students; CUE
BC NewsletterMay 30- June 5: Laptops
increasingly raising data security concerns; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office column May 23-29: Duelling wireless
networking standards stalling tech gains; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnMay 16-22: High Tech Office
columnist hooked by phishing line; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnMay 9: Photoshop
Elements 4.0 and Lightroom Beta Show Adobe Still Does Well by Mac Users;
                Low End MacMay 9-15: Ad-supported
software: the good, bad and ugly; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnMay 2- 8: How to get your fair
share; Business in Vancouver, GearGuide columnMay: Wired Realtors;
Western Investor (pdf copy)April 25- May 1: Kicking
around the inflated value of Apple’s Boot Camp; Business in
Vancouver, High Tech Office columnApril 20: Running
Windows in Parallel on Your Intel Mac; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnApril 19: Not Perfect
Yet, but Boot Camp Works as Adverised; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnApril 18: Windows
Security for Mac Users; Low End Mac;
Mac2Windows columnApril 18-24: Studies show
Internet users are easily fooled by frauds; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnApril 11-17: Author provides
roadmap through security maze; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnApril 7: Apple Joins
'Win on Mac' Army with Boot Camp; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnApril 4- 10: Software can help
your approaching taxing times; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnMarch 28-April 3: You can’t
move forward without backing up; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnMarch 23: Windows XP
on Macintel a Reality; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnMarch 21-27: On the road:
making office mobility more practical; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office column
March 14-20: Hot and getting hotter:
software for burning DVDs; Business in Vancouver, High Tech Office
columnMarch 7-13: Internet viruses
prey on computer complacency; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office column
February 28-March 6: Here’s a
good free detour around Microsoft’s toll road; Business in
Vancouver, High Techo Office columnFebruary 21-27: Locals
delivering knowledge management solutions; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnFebruary 20: VNC,
Basilisk II, and SheepShaver: 3 Ways to Run Classic on an Intel Mac;
                Low
End MacFebruary 14-20: Success
multiplies for Simply Accounting; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnFebruary 7- 13: Computer
benchmarks and other high-tech baloney; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office column; reposted on LowEndMac:
February 7, 2006February 1: Using
a Shared Windows Printer from Your Mac with OS X 10.4; Low End Mac,
Mac2Windows columnJanuary 31- February 6: Firefox
in the Microsoft browser chicken coop; Business in Vancouver, High
Tech Office columnJanuary 24: Windows
on Intel Macs? OS X on PCs? Don't Hold Your Breath; LowEndMac,
Mac2Windows columnJanuary 24- 30: WordPerfect's
not perfect, but it keeps getting better; Business in Vancouver,
High Tech Office columnJanuary 17: 'Just Say
No to Microsoft' Fails to Convince; Low End Mac:
Mac2Windows columnJanuary 17-23: 2006 could be a
big year for big tech companies; Business in Vancouver, High Tech
Office columnJanuary 10-16: 2006 could be
the year of the online software boom; Business in Vancouver, High
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 Alan
Zisman is a Vancouver educator, writer, and computer
specialist. He
can be reached at E-mail
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