Anyone who has a wireless home network has the responsibility to protect their wireless transmission from hackers or war drivers as they call themselves. Setting up your wireless router and not installing security features such as passwords and security keys, leaves you wide open to attack. So, if you have a wireless router and started using it right out of the box without taking the time to properly set it up, now is your second chance. Get out the operations manual and read it this time. Set up the security features and create your own department of wireless internet security.

Here is another one for the geeks in the crowd. Most of you will recognize this as the RSS symbol, and what is RSS you ask? Really Simple Syndication is the answer. It is a web format used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries or news headlines. The orange feed symbol usually indicates the location of a link that let’s you subscribe to a sites RSS feed.

If you’ve ever gone to create your own website and started searching for available domain names, you likely found that all the good ones have been taken. When selecting a domain name, the experts say you want one that is easy to remember, easy to spell and as short as possible. I’m always amazed when I see a short URL such as Road Runner’s www.rr.com, wow, how much do you think they had to pay for that one?

The unavailability of good dot com names has created the new naming creativity you see with Google, Yahoo, Etsy, Ebay, and such. So if your going to find a short, easy to spell, easy to remember name for your new web site, you will need to think out of the box, as the say.

Want to give this a try? go to Network Solutions and try to find a creative name that has not already been taken. It’s not easy.

Here is a great computer tip I like to call rolling with it. A great trick for Windows users who don’t quite see as well as we used to. To enlarge a web page as you’re viewing it, hold down your Ctrl Key and roll your center mouse wheel forward and backwards to enlarge and reduce the page you are viewing. Go ahead, give it a try on this page.

Cool eh?

A button of a button? Yeah, this one uses the circle and slash power symbol to create the image of a computer button. Push it in and get turned on. Great stocking stuffer for the family geek.