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Keep Your Computer Running Right!
Now that you've got that new computer for the holidays, it's time to make sure you can keep it well-maintained and running properly. Elliott Stern, "the Maestro" behind Maestro Computing Services, and author of "Keep Your Computer Running Right!", rejoined the Internet Insider today to share more of his tips on keeping your PC well oiled, finely tuned, well adjusted, happy, and all of those other kinds of adjectives.
Elliott's book shares Performance Tune-Ups, Preventative Maintenance Tips, and task scheduling advice that everyone can (and should) use.
The Frustration Buster™
The Year in Review
Our Internet Frustration Buster™, Cindy Harris, returns to the show this week, to talk about the year that was on the Internet. What changed? What didn't? What still needs to?
Napster made a huge splash this year, and not only in the news and the court rooms. File sharing is changing the way a lot of businesses and individuals are looking at the potential applications of the Internet. What's next? Did anything else have as large an effect on the Internet community as Napster? And how might Napster affect the Internet in years to come?
So many questions, and so little time...
The Lists
Here's our own look at the year in review, including some bests and worsts as judged by the Internet Insider Editorial Staff:
Five Biggest Disappointments
- Working or Investing in a public Dot-Com company
- Broadband Availability
- Not enough Playstation 2's
- Netscape 6
- Windows Millenium
Honorable Mentions
- Spielberg's Pop.com
- Name your own price
- Cellular phone/web devices
- Stephen King's "The Plant"
- Napster's sell out to BMG
The Most Promising Technologies for 2001 and Beyond
- Broadband - better late than never
- Microsoft.Net
- Wireless Connectivity (hubs, WAP, bluetooth, etc.)
- eBook Readers
- AAC/Advanced Audio Coding from Dolby Labs
The Biggest Wave-Makers in Internet-Related News
- David Boies - attorney against Microsoft, for Gore, and for Napster
- Steve Case of AOL
- Shawn Fanning - Napster creator
- Lars Ulrich - Metallica
- Hilary Rosen - RIAA
Honorable Mentions
- Phillip Kaplan, creator of the web site we can't name on the air
- the venture capitalist that started the Dot Coms crumbling
- Smashing Pumpkins, Cher, Rage Against the Machine
- Jay Walker - Priceline
- Stephen King
- Drew Carey
- Madonna
And finally (drum roll please)...
The Top 10 Internet Stories of 2000
- The Great Intellectual Property Debate
- The Dot Bombs
- Microsoft - the Breakup Ruling
- The Last Great Dot Com Acquisition - AOL/Time-Warner
- The "I Love You" virus wreaks havoc
- Denial of Service attacks
- A New Twist on Privacy Concerns - Toysmart attempts to sell names in dissolution
- Stephen King serializes "The Plant"
- Cybersquatters create chaos, increasing sales prices of domains and prompting the creation of new top level domains
- America turns to the 'Net for Real Time Election Coverage
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