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Learn how to use Disk Utility to erase and format an external drive. You can also create drives with multiple partitions.

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Doing business on the Internet requires the use sophisticated software and complicated processes. Many of these innovative products have been patented; Google and Amazon, for example, hold many hundreds of patents. But the U. S. Supreme Court may be about to greatly restrict the issuance of patents. To help us understand the case at hand and its relevance to software and Internet developers, we are joined by Lawrence M. Hadley. Mr. Hadley is a seasoned intellectual property attorney and a partner in the firm of Hennigan, Bennett and Dorman, in Los Angeles. He speaks with Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.

Oleg Chehovsky is head of the marketing department for Pentasoft Corporation, developers of Avactis ecommerce software. In this supplement to "Cart of the Week," Chehovsky talks about his early years in website development, and how he became involved with the Avactis online shopping cart.

Getting ready to launch a brand new website, logo, or advertisement? Want to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world? Upload your concept to Concept Feedback, a free online service found at ConceptFeedback.com, and get quick, actionable feedback from the professional business community.

Someone put a bunch of mathematical calculations in column A as text and we want to evaluate those formulas. Mike and Bill provide dueling ways to solve this problem in Episode 1149. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

Tom and Brian name the tech they think was a turkey in 2009 and get a few turkeys from listners of the show as well. Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio) Subscribe with iTunes (video) Subscribe with RSS (audio) Subscribe with RSS (video) Episode 188 Twitter Peek Garmin Nuvifone G60 Danger s Sidekick Servers Xbox 360 (Red Rings of Death) Apple Magic Mouse BlackBerry Storm PSP (no)Go Palm Pre? Brother MFC-5890CN The Brother MFC-5890CN all-in-one is hands down the worst printer to take up space in our lab. From the irritating initial set up to the horrendous output quality and slow print speed, this device is the easiest way to flush $200 down the drain. http://reviews.cnet.com/multifunction-devices/brother-mfc-5890cn/4505-3181_7-33303729.html?tag=mncol;lst EMAIL QUESTIONS ********************** I was looking at getting a tablet PC. I was looking for a speficic kind. I would like for it not to have a keyboard and only have sceen input. My ultmate goal is one simular to the one used on Stargate Atlantis by Dr. Mckae. I was wondering what your opion on options would be. Thanks Jason Johnston Beaver Falls, PA Answer: I think Tom s opinon is probably don t . But if you re set on it as you seem to be, I would say Lenovo X60 Tablet. It does have a keyboard buit you can swivel it out of the way and pretend it s not there. The thing is, it s two years old. Nobody s making a lot of good new tablets these days. The best recent one s are netbook sized like the Yukyung Viliv X70EX. http://reviews.cnet.com/1770-3126_7-0.html?tag=mncol%3Bsort s a creaky, rickety machine and the screen has sparklies on it. Or http://www.axiotron.com/index.php?id=modbook ********** Tom: The Windows System Repair disk on the Oct 21, 2009 How To video doesn t seem to do much. When my Win7 crashed for some mysterious reason within the first 2 hours, Windows 7 seemed to boot but found an error, tried but failed to repair itself. When I put in the Repair Disk, it does the same thing as the self-repairing process as Win 7 on my HD, ending with the same result. In both cases it says Unknown Error and cannot be corrected. I even tried the Windows 7 original installation DVD and used the Repair option ending with the same process and result screen. I had to do a full reinstall. Given this experience, it seems like the Repair Disk and the Windows Installation DVD does the same thing so why would one need to create a repair disk. Thank you. Dickson Answer: Correct, the System Repair disk is included on the Windows 7 DVD. Making a system repair disk is god in a few scenarios though. 1. You didn t get a Windows 7 disk form the manufacturer when you bought the computer. You got a system recovery disk that in fact doesn t have a Windows System repair function on it. This is common. 2. You want a disk you can throw in your bag when you r eon the go, without worrying about scratching up your original Windows 7 install disk. As for it not working or doing the same thing as Windows did on it s own that s just the luck of the draw. If your system won t boo the system repair disk will, giving you an extra chance. It also works better if you have restore points created. But it s not guaranteed to work every time. Rafe: Create a Sytem Repair disk. It can access system restore files, and there are instances when you will need those. ********** Hey, I was just driving through Atlanta and saw a billboard advertising a 4G Mobile Network from Comcast. Now if memory serves me right comcast is an ISP, but not a mobile ISP, so I was wondering if you could explain what was up. (if it s any help the advertisement ad some sort of box that looked like it had something in the process of being plugged in to it, so it seems like some marketing shinangin to me) Answer: Comcast is an investor in the Clearwire WiMax service and sells a Comcast branded version of that service ins elect markets. Time Warner Cable Bright House Networks and Google are also investors. ***************** Dear Real Dealers, I was considering upgrading my 40GB PS3 hard drive with a 320GB one, as between game info files and a few movies and songs I m just about out of drive space. I know most laptop SATA hard drives will work, but I dont want to lose the data thats on the old drive. I was thinking of trying to clone the drive, but the only way I can figure to do this is to take out the hard drive out of my laptop, put in the old PS3 40GB drive, boot a live CD with some linux backup software, clone the disk to my external hard drive, then insert the new drive into the laptop, and transfer the cloned drive to it. One, I don t even know if the software will back up my PS3 data, and two, this seems needlessly complex, but I can t think of a better way. Any ideas gents? Thanks Rich in Lovely Cleveland Answer: Actually the standard method requires two drives, your new 320GB drive and a second external drive that should be close ot he old 40 GB drive in capacity, though it can be a bit less. Take the small external drive formatted to Fat32, hook it up in an enclosure (or just use a USB drive) to the PS3 and back up all your data. Then just put the new hard drive in the PS3 and format it. Then take your small external drive, plug it into the PS3 and restore the backup. That s the easy way, if you have an extra drive laying around. If you don t, you can make a bit-for-bit clone of your PS3 drive that will work in YOUR PS3 drive. Don t get all wide-eyed about being able to clone drives and sell them to friends with saved games on them. This bit involves mucking about with reiserdriver. The whole process is listed out here: http://www.ps3news.com/forums/ps3-hdd-news/help-transferring-old-data-new-playstation-3-a-108384.html **************** COMMENTS ********** Tom Merritt is a big fat liar! Dear Tom Merrit, Don t take this seriously. The tip on using the free version of Yahoo Mail as a POP3 Failed me. Google got rejected by Yahoo POP3. Perhaps Yahoo realized that you were working for CNET and could give them a bad review? Maybe? Just a theory, anyway love the show. This is the error. Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password. POP access is limited to Yahoo! Mail Plus subscribers. Please contact Yahoo! 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This episode of Izzy Video is part 2 in my series on shooting video with a Digital SLR. Digital SLR cameras are excellent for shooting video indoors and at night because you can increase the ISO until you have a nice exposure. One of the challenges though is that when you’re shooting video, you usually don’t want a shutter speed other than 1/60th of a second. This can become a problem in the sunny outdoors because when you want to blur out the backgrounds (shallow depth of field), then you need the aperture open all the way. This lets in too much light which leads to overexposure, and you’ll see in this video, how you can solve that problem. The variable ND filter you’ll see in this video is this one. The full version of this tutorial is available to Izzy Video Members only, but you can download the Quicktime version of the trailer here.

Ram asks how to split a word into individual letters, and then count how many times each letter appears. Episode 1148 shows you how. This blog is the video podcast companion to the book, Learn Excel 97-2007 from MrExcel. Download a new two minute video every workday to learn one of the 377 tips from the book!

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D.Lee Beard explains how to add photos to an iMovie video project including applying the Ken Burns effect to your photos, cropping an image in iMovie, rotating an image in iMovie, adjusting how long the photo displays in the video, and how to adjust automatic settings when photos are imported (such as turning off the automatic Ken Burns effect or making all photos default to 6 seconds instead of just 4 seconds). D.Lee also shows how to grab a still image from a video. Click Here to Play Episode 105

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Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte Guest: Ian Manheimer Use the web to send snail mail, the Oxford English Dictionary word of the year, and NASA responds to 2012. Show notes For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night. Bandwidth for net@night is provided by AOL Music and Spinner.com. Running time: 52:58