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		<title>External Drives for Laptops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What kind of external hard drive for a macbook would you suggest?
When it comes to external hard drives there are two main options; &#8216;portable&#8217; and &#8217;stationary.&#8217;
The portable drives are 2.5 inch hard drives that are usually enclosed in smaller pocket sized cases, many of which are powered either the USB cable or via a second [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2009/06/external-drives-for-laptops/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Computer Terminology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was written in February 2008. Some computer specs may be out of date.
Technology often gets a bad rap for being hard to understand or being far too complicated to use. While there are aspects of technology that are complicated, there are many “common” terms that people will often glaze over because they don’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/09/understanding-computer-terminology/</link>
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		<title>Learning to Play</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a column I wrote for a college newspaper.
Technology is constantly changing. Technology companies are constantly adding new features to their products, but they usually only tout the really exciting ones in their advertising. Many times the instructions for how to use these features is buried in a thick manual or vaguely depicted in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/09/learning-to-play/</link>
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		<title>Conversation on the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an email conversation that I had with a colleague. His email is in bold, my response follows.
I just saw a commercial for the iPhone, and I wanted to ask you if you own one
No, I do not own an iPhone, but I do own an iPod Touch. (An iPod touch is just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/09/conversation-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When viewing a drop down Menu, application commands are aligned on the left-hand side of the menu. On the right-hand side of the drop down menu, there is sometimes a string of symbols and or letters. These are called keyboard shortcuts. Each symbol or letter in a keyboard shortcut refers to a key on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/06/keyboard-shortcuts/</link>
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		<title>Passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passwords have been around for a long time. They provide a method of proving that &#8220;You are who you say you are.&#8221; Security experts would refer to this as &#8220;Something (only) you know.&#8221; When logging into a website it is customary to input a username and password. The username is who you are and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/06/passwords/</link>
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		<title>Convenience vs Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Convenience and Security are polar opposites. Something that is convenient is usually not very secure and things that are secure are not always very convenient. It is the user&#8217;s duty to decide which of the two is most important and how to balance between them.
Example:
It is very convenient to leave your car keys in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.techphobia.info/2008/06/convenience-vs-security/</link>
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