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		<title>No Longer Using Internet Explorer? Lock It Down!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you live in the European Union, your Windows computer will have Internet Explorer installed. 
Maybe you no longer use Internet Explorer for browsing, and have moved on to a more security-conscious browser like Chrome or Firefox? You&#8217;ll still need IE, or rather, Windows needs IE for downloading patches. Also, programs like Microsoft Outlook are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2010/03/04/no-longer-using-internet-explorer-lock-it-down/</link>
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		<title>Make Your Own Custom &#8220;20th Century Fox&#8221; Fanfare Opening Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know the famous 20th Century Fox fanfare opening?

Here&#8217;s how to make your own for free (though this will take your computer a few hours to render). It makes for an impressive, personalized 20-second opening sequence for your personal video productions.

Create the Video
1. Download and install Blender, a free open-source 3D content creation suite.
2. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2010/03/02/make-your-own-custom-20th-century-fox-fanfare-opening-movie/</link>
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		<title>WordPress 2.9 Available!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WP 2.9 is out for your upgrading pleasure. Finally, the ability to upgrade multiple (up to 10) plug-ins simultaneously is built-in. Video embedding is also much easier. Also, you can now do some basic image manipulation, such as cropping and rotating images.
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		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/12/25/wordpress-2-9-available/</link>
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		<title>Untangle for Windows: Step-by-step Setup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The skinny: Untangle for Windows is a Unified Threat Manager (UTM), which acts as a gateway to filter all web traffic on your small (up to 10 computers) network. It&#8217;s available as a free download from Untangle&#8217;s site. Untangle for Windows doesn&#8217;t need a dedicated computer (it runs in the background). Based on which options [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/10/10/untangle-for-windows-step-by-step-setup/</link>
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		<title>Sorry!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
We recently incorporated Twitter into the PreparedPC website. TwitterTools was doing its job, passing along the Tweets we created from the Wordpress dashboard to Twitter. Then we hooked up Twitterfeed, which tweeted every time we published a new blog post. So far, so good.
Then, we told TwitterTools to create a blog post from every Tweet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/10/04/sorry/</link>
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		<title>5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5 Easy Steps to Stay Safe (and Private!) on Facebook  http://bit.ly/gDrPH
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		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/09/24/5-easy-steps-to-stay-safe-and/</link>
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		<title>The 2nd Most Important Thing a Home Computer User Should Do: Create a Standard User Account</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a home computer user, your most crucial task is to make sure your data is backed up, and that you&#8217;re backing it up regularly.
The 2nd most important thing? Create and use a standard user account. By default, Windows (XP, Vista and now 7) create administrative accounts as part of the initial setup. These accounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/09/19/the-2nd-most-important-thing-a-home-computer-user-should-do-create-a-standard-user-account/</link>
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		<title>Weekly Round-up 2009-09-12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick run-down of posts and tweets from the past week:
Untangle for Windows-Free Unified Threat Management for the Rest of Us &#8211; We posted about Untangle for Windows, a free download of an open-source based Unified Threat Management suite. The Linux-based version of Untangle is very stable and mature, and Untangle for Windows, though it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/09/11/weekly-round-up-2009-09-12/</link>
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		<title>Untangle for Windows &#8211; Free Unified Threat Management For the Rest of Us!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The skinny: Untangle for Windows is a free way to protect your home/small office network (up to 10 computers). It leverages open source software to give you advanced control of your network that until recently was only affordable to larger corporations. Its features are impressive, especially for a free download.
Unified Threat Management (UTM) software is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/09/04/untangle-for-windows-free-unified-threat-management-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Bogus Firefox Add-on Poses As Flash Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Adobe Flash Player 0.2&#8243; is not what it seems. It has been posted on various forum sites. Unsuspecting Firefox users who have installed this (assuming that it&#8217;s gotten past your anti-virus/anti-spyware software) find themselves infected. (To check, in the Firefox menu, choose Tools > Add-ons and look for &#8220;Adobe Flash Player 0.2&#8243;).
This bogus add-on injects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://preparedpc.com/2009/08/30/bogus-firefox-add-on-poses-as-flash-player/</link>
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