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- Taking our summer break — see you Sept. 9August 18
- The Windows Secrets crew is taking our annual summer break for the next two weeks. Time to go out and smell the pine trees. We'll be back with Fred, Woody, and the rest of the gang starting September 9, bringing you the latest in Windows and PC secrets.
- Lost: 300 gigabytes of valuable drive space!August 18
- Most Windows and PC troubles fit into patterns, but every once in a while a truly weird, never-before-seen problem crops up. In a novel and mysterious case, a reader's hard drive suddenly fills up with hundreds of huge files.
- New analysis of stolen data brings surprisesAugust 18
- Every year, the highly respected Verizon Business RISK data crime–investigation team publishes an analysis of major online data thefts it's been asked to study. This year, a first-ever joint report by VBR and the U.S. Secret Service presents a fascinating view into the state of the data-stealing art, with many surprising facts that should interest all consumers.
- No good dog goes unpunished in age-old melodramaAugust 18
- Avatar may represent the state of the art in digital moviemaking, but back in the '30s, it was an analog world in which clever dogs acted out classic human dramas. It was quite impressive for the time — and good for a laugh, too.
- Perplexing print-preview problems with browsersAugust 18
- Reviewing Web documents with print preview can be deceiving. Often, what looks fine in the preview emerges from the printer as a disjointed and difficult-to-read mess — if anything emerges at all.