ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
It’s no secret that Internet addiction is rampant in China and other Asian countries. Well, a recent survey which indicated that up to 14% of teenagers in China faced addiction problems has alarmed the Communist Youth League … and they have taken stern steps.
The clinic in Daxing, a suburb of [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
General

assoc

Used to view and change file extension associations in Windows

at

Enables you to schedule one or more programs to run at a designated date and time

attrib

Enables you to view the attributes set for a file and to change one or more attributes

break

Causes the system to check for a break [...]

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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
A while ago I wrote I was going to give a Vista Upgrade a shot, but I wasn’t too optimistic. In reality, I thought it might be frustrating, but not impossible. After all, I’m a major techie right? Well, currently it’s impossible, and Dell is the one frustrating [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Today I received my PayPal security key in the mail and I figured I would give my first impressions. The security key’s goal is to provide an extra layer of protection beyond the usual username and password. The advantage of the security key over traditional password authentication is [...]

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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
After two hard drive failures (curse you Hitachi, you are dead to me!) it was time to get serious. Here’s a handy utility called HD Tune that does everything except raise your old drives from the dead. Features include:
* Benchmark: measures the raw performance
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Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Over 1700 Connecticut state workers were recently informed that their personal info, including Social Security numbers and names have been posted to the Internet. Even worse, the information may have been there since 2003!
The employees were notified by letter just last week. State officials apparently learned of it last month [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I’ve been tooling around Google Earth for the last couple of days while following the 2007 Round-The-World Flight Simulator Race and would love a better way to fly around the application when I remembered my visit with Logitech at CES. 3Dconnexion, a Logitech company, has an award-winning 3D navigation devices that [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Leave it up to the crafty members at SlingCommunity to sniff out new hardware from Sling Media before any kind of announcement! Yesterday Brandon C. found a listing on Amazon for a brand new model SlingLink Powerline Ethernet Bridge, called the SlingLink Turbo, boasting some new features and updated specs.
According to [...]