[TechRepublic] Forget tablets! Four ways to enhance your desktop computer

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Forget tablets! Four ways to enhance your desktop computer While the talk of the computer world in 2010 has centered around tablets, the silent majority remain chained to desktops. Here are four ways to enhance the desktop experience. Read more Resource of the day Free Trial: IBM LotusLive Engage for Online Collaboration LotusLive Engage is a full-range suite of online collaboration services designed to help you drive business. It delivers the essential collaboration tools you need before, during and after your online meeting. Try this free 30-day trial! New at TechRepublic   What to do when you get in over your head You don't have a clue about what you're doing on an IT consulting job. Here's advice on what to say when you come clean to the client. Read more Smartphone form factor's impact on usability and user satisfaction Deb Shinder discusses how much a form factor impacts the smartphone's usability and the user's satisfaction (or lack thereof) with the experience. Read more Venti Antenna: A big signal from a small package Antenna systems have been in the news lately, thanks to the iPhone's antenna issues. Apparently, compromises were made. A new antenna design may have prevented that. Read more Hal 9000 highlights TR Questions of the Week - November 1, 2010 The questions highlighted in this Questions of the Week post address issues with Word, Gmail, Excel 2007, Apple products, Windows 7, a wireless router, a SATA hard drive, and much more. Read more Exchange 2010: How to redirect non-SSL Outlook Web App traffic to SSL In this Exchange 2010 tutorial, Scott Lowe shows how to make sure that users who visit http://webmail.yourorg.com are automatically redirected to https://webmail.yourorg.com/owa. Read more Treat telecom providers' support staff with respect IT consultants may need to sweet-talk DSL, cable Internet, and T1 providers' support staff in order to get a solution for their clients. Read these tips on communicating with telecom staff. Read more Pop Quiz: Command-line network troubleshooting tools Do you know the difference between ping and traceroute? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of command-line networking utilities. Read more TR Community scoreboard for October 29, 2010 - Ditch the crapware In the hottest discussion this past week, blogger Michael Kassner talked about some ways to get rid of crapware. Find out what other posts had lively discussions and which TechRepublic members were the most active on the boards. Read more Policy creation often falls on IT leadership With social networking policies becoming the bailiwick of IT in small to medium-sized companies, IT leaders may need some help. Read more Featured multimedia   Laptop nightmares: Scary systems with fatal flaws We've compiled our own list of the scariest laptops of 2010 -- the models that either had one or more frightening flaws, or else were just dogs. View on site Featured Webcast Results-Based Management: A Smart Strategy for the Global, Mobile Workforce How do you manage people who aren't in the office and you can't see? How do you know they're really working? Learn how the combination of flexibility and results-based management is transforming the nature of work and fundamental to your success. Today's recommended downloads Results-Based Management: A Smart Strategy for the Global, Mobile Workforce (Citrix Online) Free Trial: IBM LotusLive iNotes Email Service (IBM) Free Trial: IBM LotusLive Engage for Online Collaboration (IBM) Webcast: Discover the Advantages of Emerging DBMS Technology (Sybase) Cisco TelePresence Welcomes You to the Future of Collaboration (TANDBERG, now part of Cisco) Are you "too sensitive" for your career? In business, being regarded as "too sensitive" may not be to your benefit. However, if you are truly a highly sensitive person, knowing you're too sensitive can help. TechRepublic newsletters   Get smartphones news, product reviews, and need-to-know lists in the following TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Smartphones Product Spotlight Five Tips 10 Things Popular space galleries NASA images: Desktop wallpaper from outer space NASA Images: More desktop wallpaper from the space program NASA spacecraft and aircraft in flight Atlantis space shuttle's final mission Close-ups of Mars' surface

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