Joseph Moran

PC Inspector File RecoveryDo an online search for data recovery software these days, and you’ll find lots of options. Most come with strings attached, however — limiting the number and/or size of files you can recover (64KB is a common limitation) unless and until you pay the registration fee, which is typically anywhere from $50 […]

Some small business owners (this writer included) have come to regret not checking the Bluetooth box on the options list the last time they bought a notebook computer. It usually happens the day you buy your first Bluetooth-enabled device like a smartphone or PDA. Fortunately, there’s a convenient (if imperfect) remedy short of buying a […]

If you’re thinking about buying a portable storage device, you typically have two choices. USB Flash drives, which are fast, inexpensive and easily portable, but they usually offer limited storage capacity. Conversely, external hard drives offer lots of capacity, but they aren’t very easy to lug around.

Remember the days when computing in Windows meant using a single application at a time, two at the most? For most of us, those days went out with the floppy disk, as a typical person is now likely to simultaneously work with several documents, multiple Web pages, and various other applications. In this kind of […]

The ubiquitous external hard drive has become a convenient — if relatively expensive — way to quickly add storage by simply plugging one into the USB or FireWire port of a computer. Up until recently, these external drives have almost all been single-disk devices, a characteristic with two inherent shortcomings. First, maximum capacity is limited […]

Many small businesses rely on a handful of PCs to store and share access to data. Sooner or later though, most will seriously consider the purchase of a server after discovering that peer-based file sharing, while inexpensive and easy to set up, can quickly become unwieldy, inefficient and risky. It’s at this point that things […]

When you think about it, security and convenience almost always reside at opposite ends of a continuum. More security often means less convenience and vice-versa. This usually holds true for everything from airport screenings to protecting a wireless network. McAfee isn’t offering a solution for long lines at the airport metal detector (at least, not […]

If you’re thinking about installing a WLAN in your office, one major consideration is ensuring enough signal strength and range to meet your needs. These days, most of the WLAN devices claiming the highest performance and range use some kind of MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) implementation, which utilizes multiple transmitters and antennas to maximize […]

Yahoo Widgets Engine ScreenshotThe Internet has become such an indispensable resource that it’s truly hard to imagine how we ever got along without it. These days nearly any type of information is as close as a Web site or Net-connected utility, but in this frenetic world, who wants to have to fire up a browser […]

Lenovo says the Z60t is designed to be “travel-friendly” (hence the “t” in the name — a somewhat larger and heavier Z60m is also available), and while there are significantly smaller and lighter portables than this ThinkPad, the Z60t is quite compact for the features it provides. The Hardware The Z60t’s dimensions measure 13.1 x […]

Walk around your neighborhood with a wireless notebook, and you’ll probably detect the presence of many wireless networks. You’re also likely to find that many of them are not encrypted and open to use or abuse. It’s a pretty safe bet that many of those unrestricted networks were left that way due to the difficulty, […]

If you’re a smart businessperson (and if you read Small Business Computing, you undoubtedly are), you’re always looking for new ways to maximize efficiency and minimize costs. One of the ways you may be thinking about is trying out Internet telephony and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which lets you use the Internet to make […]