Score One for the Good Guys

If you've been bothered by spam (and who hasn't??), your spam emails may have just dropped by 40% as Microsoft has closed down the world's largest spam network, Rustock. You can read the details here.

Speed Zone

More and more dental offices are using Smartphones to integrate with their office computer systems. For most, speed is king, but if you're thinking about switching networks when you get that 4G phone or modem, you might be basing it on who's faster. Here's how the networks stack up against one another.

Home Sweet Home

Wi-Fi provides a convenient way to connect the computers in your home without dealing with the hassle of wires, but Wi-Fi is also slow and unreliable compared to a wired connection. Wireless may be the way of the future, but here are some of the best ways to go wired where it counts.

Home on the Range

Windows 7 rocks a new method of file and print sharing that’s a departure from the frustrating file and print sharing found in earlier versions of Windows. What is it and how can you benefit from it? Read on!

Air Apparent

AVG is getting into the cloud sync and storage game, and now you can take the company's beta app for a test drive. You'll need to fill out a brief survey and a registration form, but then AVG will fork over 5GB of cloud storage into which you can sync anything you choose from your Windows systems.

Once the service exits beta, you'll be able to pay for additional storage. It's also worth knowing that AVG AirSpace (or LiveKive, whichever name the company settles on) functions both as a sync and a backup utility. You can even back up multiple machines' data into the same storage account.

AirSpace also offers a way for you to share uploaded files with your friends and colleagues, just like Dropbox. Unfortunately, at least for the time being, there's only a Windows AirSpace installer -- Mac and Linux aren't supported, and no mobile apps are available either.

Share and Share Alike

With many dental offices/homes using both Macs and PCs, the day will come when you need to be able to share files between them. Here's a How-To guide on how to do this.

Oops!

We've all done it before: hit the wrong button or pressed "send" too early and dispatched an email with disastrous results. Here are the most common gaffes and what to do the next time your electronic correspondence lands you in the doghouse.