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Bob Rankin is a translator for the technology impaired -- a writer and computer programmer who enjoys exploring the Internet and explaining technology in plain English.
His work has appeared in Computer World, NY Newsday, and other publications. Bob is also publisher of Internet TOURBUS, author of several computer books, and creator of the Lowfat Linux tutorial.
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The Best Mobile Phone Web Browser?
Top Five Android Phones for 2012
How Can I Sell My Stuff Online?
Geekly Update - 01 February 2012
Beware the Fedex Shipment Notification Scam
Should You Buy Discount Ink Cartridges?
Free Conference Calls With Skype
Geekly Update - 25 January 2012
How Can I Speed Up My Internet Connection?
Geekly Update - 17 January 2012
Opera: The Best Worst Browser?
Seven Search Alternatives to Google
Do I Still Need Anti-Spyware Protection?
Geekly Update - 11 January 2012
Cheap Phone Calls - MagicJack Alternatives
Ten Awesome Chrome Browser Addons
Geekly Update - 04 January 2012
What's The Smallest, Fastest and Best AntiVirus?
AskBob's Best of 2011 - Part Two
AskBob's Best of 2011 - Part One
Ten Identity Theft Protection Tips
How to Learn Almost Anything For Free
How to Find The Lowest Airfare Online
Geekly Update - 19 December 2011
Free Online Backup With CrashPlan
Free Online Storage With Box.net
How To Find a Lost Or Stolen Cell Phone
Tap to Pay with Google Wallet?
Five Free Alternatives to Quicken
Geekly Update - 7 December 2011
Seven MORE Free Software Downloads
Geekly Update - 29 November 2011
Can VoIP Replace Your Landline?
Geekly Update - 16 November 2011
Portable Solid State Hard Drives
Are Hybrid Hard Drives Faster?
Geekly Update - 09 November 2011
Is BitDefender the Best Antivirus?
What is Cloud-Based Antivirus?
Geekly Update - 01 November 2011
10 Ways To Boost a WiFi Signal
Geekly Update - 19 October 2011
Can DuckDuckGo Beat Google at Search?
Have You Made These Five Computing Mistakes?
Web Hosting for Small Business
What is Windows Live Essentials?
Geekly Update - 11 October 2011
Virus Alert: Fake Anti-Virus and Celebrity Scams
How to Run a Deep AntiVirus Scan
Geekly Update - 26 September 2011
Radio Apps For Your Smartphone
Digital Scanners To The Rescue
Replacing Your Graphics Adapter
Upgrade Your Hard Drive To SSD?
Dual Monitors: Five Good Reasons to Upgrade
How Do I Get Free Satellite TV?
Geekly Update - 12 September 2011
The Copyright Police Are Coming!
How to Clean Up Your Hard Drive
Geekly Update - 06 September 2011
AVG Internet Security 2012 - Review
Mobile Malware: Are You Exposed?
Five Good Reasons to Trash Your Fax Machine
Geekly Update - 29 August 2011
Traditional Anti-Virus May No Longer Protect You
How to Fix 'Low Virtual Memory' Errors
Should You Update Your Drivers?
ASCII Art - An Internet Treasure
Geekly Update - 23 August 2011
Personal VPNs for Anonymous Web Surfing
Time Travel with System Restore
Why Is My Internet Connection Slow?
Are You Addicted To Social Media?
How I Got Hacked... And Why You MUST Have a Backup!
Geekly Update - 15 August 2011
Help, I’m Stuck in a Wifi Dead Zone!
All External Hard Drives are Not Created Equal
Geekly Update - 08 August 2011
Are You Drowning in Your Inbox?
Free Online JavaScript Courses
Is Your Operating System Secure?
Does "Intel Inside" Really Matter?
How To Get Academic Discounts On Hardware and Software
Geekly Update - 01 August 2011
Seven Great Laptops for Business Travelers
Convert Internal to External Hard Drive
Don't Fall For Online Financial Aid Scams
Five Reasons NOT To Buy a Digital SLR Camera
The Feature Phone is Dead! Long Live the Feature Phone!
What Is The Ultimate Gaming PC?
Five Annoying Things About Windows 7
Is Macbook Air The Best Laptop Ever?
Which Portable Hard Drive Should You Buy?
Do I REALLY Need Antivirus Software?
Save Money With Online Travel Booking
Which Browser is The Most Secure?
I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me
Free Online Photo Storage and Backup
Is Your Wireless Router REALLY Secure?
Is Your Smartphone Bill About to Explode?
Why Did My Computer Get a Virus?
Which Netbooks Cost Under $300?
Free Online File Sharing With Dropbox
Is Windows 7 More Secure Than XP or Vista?
Boost Your Smartphone Battery Life
Is Your Phone Bill Being Crammed?
Is Facebook Tracking Your Online Activity?
How to Run Office Apps On Your iPad
Which Online Colleges Are Scams?
Should I Encrypt My External Hard Drive?
How to Remove Spyware Toolbars
Free Conference Calls With Google Voice
Don't Fall For the Fake Tech Support Scam
Free Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
Facebook Malware: Are You Protected?
Should Your Next Laptop Be a Chromebook?
Do Download Accelerators Really Work?
Where Do Viruses And Spyware Come From?
How to Backup, Sync and Share Your Bookmarks
How Often Should I Change My Password?
Beware the Free Credit Report Scam
What is The Fastest Internet Connection?
What is Microsoft System Sweeper?
DiskInternals Data Recovery Software
Virus Alert - XP Total Security 2011
Email Marketing Best Practices
TeamViewer Remote Access Software
Should Unsafe Users Be Quarantined?
Free Online Photography Classes
Help, My Browser Has Been Hijacked!
Which Free AntiVirus Software is Best?
Online Vacation Planning Resources
Who's Watching You On the Web?
Why You Should Dump Outlook and Windows Live Mail
What To Do When Your AntiVirus Fails
Free Online College Courses - Part Deux
I Just Googled Myself, And I Feel Fine!
Free Windows Troubleshooting Tools
Securing Your External Hard Drive
Is Your Security Software Working?
Recovering Data From Online Backup
Is Your Smartphone Telling Secrets?
Should I Backup ALL of My files?
Spear Phishing and Internet Security
Is the Internet Getting Safer?
Can a Sandbox Improve Security?
Dump Norton and McAfee Anti-Virus?
Streaming Internet Movies to Your TV
Recovering Deleted Files on Windows 7
University of Phoenix Online Degrees
Best Registry Cleaner for Windows 7
Blue Screen of Death on Windows 7
Has Your Identity Been Stolen?
Free Internet Faxing With FaxZero
Discount Toner Cartridges - A Real Bargain?
What To Do With a Used Cell Phone
Is Your Password Hacker Proof?
Free Phone Calls with Google Voice
The Internet Is Full... Go Away
Has Your Wireless Router Been Hacked?
Mobile Payments with Smartphone
What Kind Of Memory Do I Need?
Microsoft Security Essentials 2
Online Backup or Local Backup?
Geekly Update - 03 January 2011
Digital Photo Image Management
Wireless Network Security Checklist
Geekly Update - 20 December 2010
Should You Call The Geek Squad?
Geekly Update - 13 December 2010
Restoring Backup Data After Hard Drive Crash
International Cell Phone Rental
Geekly Update - 07 December 2010
Geekly Update - 30 November 2010
Geekly Update - 23 November 2010
Best Internet Filtering Software
Geekly Update - 15 November 2010
Geekly Update - 09 November 2010
Geekly Update - 04 November 2010
Geekly Update - 27 October 2010
How Good is AVG Anti-Virus Free 2011?
Microsoft Security Essentials - Good Enough?
Geekly Update - 18 October 2010
Geekly Update - 12 October 2010
Replace IDE Hard Drive With SATA Drive
Geekly Update - September 27 2010
Geekly Update - September 20 2010
Geekly Update - September 13 2010
Geekly Update - September 7 2010
Cannot Connect to Wireless Router
Geekly Update - September 1 2010
How Can I Check for Hard Drive Damage?
Is My Hard Drive Going To Crash?
Is it Legal to Jailbreak an iPhone?
Geekly Update - August 19 2010
Run Older Programs on Windows 7
Reverse Mobile Phone Number Lookup
How Can I Find Out Who I Am Related To?
How Can I Check a Company Background?
Do Identity Theft Protection Services Work?
Find People And Businesses Online
Prepaid Wireless Phone Service
Online College Or Campus College?
Speakers for Laptop Or Notebook
Are Online Colleges Accredited?
Financial Aid for Online College
Protect Yourself From Identity Theft
Has Your Computer Been Hijacked?
Should You Get 64-Bit Windows?
Five Things You Didn't Know Windows 7 Could Do
More Than One Antivirus Program?
Windows Taskbar Tips and Tricks
Recovery Disc for Windows Vista or Windows 7
How Long Do Flash Drives Last?
Are Online Backup Services Safe?
Is Javascript the Same As Java?
My Cholesterol Level is Too High!
What Is Java and Do I Need It?
Add a Search Engine To My Site
Malicious Software Removal Tool
Does PCTools Threatfire Boost Security?
External Hard Drive For Backups
Internet Explorer 8 Versus Firefox
Transfer Programs from XP or Vista to Windows 7
Which Linux Version Is Right For Me?
What is Data Execution Prevention?
What Is Silverlight And Do I Need It?
Can My Boss See What I Do Online?
Google Results By Date And Time
Which Online Backup Service Is Best?
Which Blackberry Should I Buy?
Free Phone Calls With iPod Touch
File Sharing Student Fined $675K
Upgrade From Windows XP to Windows 7
Windows 7 Desktop Customization
Five Reasons Blu-Ray Will Fail
Free Apps for iPhone and iPod Touch
TrapCall Reveals Blocked Caller ID
Turn Your PC Into a Home Theater
Watch Television on Your Computer
Passport 9500ci Radar Detector
Password Protection for Windows XP
10 Ways To Boost Your WiFi Signal
Analog to Digital TV Conversion
Top Ten Sites for Homeschoolers
Top Ten Sites for College Students
Switching From Windows To Linux
Converting Vinyl Records to CD
Add Hard Drive Song to Myspace
Airports, Airlines, And Airplanes
Going Viral - Internet Classics
Fiddling While Your Hard Drive Crashes
Directory Information Overload?
Hard Drive Makes a Clicking Sound
Best Educational Software and Technology
Red X appears instead of image?
Inkjet Cartridges - Replace or Refill?
Should I Buy Anti-Spyware or Anti-Virus Software?
Shell Script Programming - Loops
Get an Uninterruptible Power Supply
Remote Access to Your Computer
Web Moments That Changed the World
Does IP Address Reveal my Physical Location?
Is Your Printer Spying on You?
Access local IP address without dialing up
Paypal and Ebay Phishing Scams
Friend Claims You Sent a Virus
Blue Security - Spam Solution?
Mozilla Interferes With McAfee
Convert Internal Hard Drive To External
Copying Old Hard Drive to New PC
Deleting Files That Are in Use
Spammer Using My Email Address!
Removing Files from Hard Drive
Can't Delete Email in Outlook Express
Wrong Font for Outlook Express Printing
Emails converted to attachments
MS Fax doesn't work with XP SP2
Turning F-Lock key ON automatically
Scandisk doesn't work on Windows XP?
Help with Basic Linux Commands
Who was the first Internet celebrity?