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Instant messaging, commonly referred to as IM, is a method of online communication, like e-mail. There are a few notable differences, however, between IM and e-mail.

IM is generally faster than e-mail and instant messages are not typically saved the way e-mail is. IM also requires a special software program like MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, or others.

Using an IM program, you and your friends can type what you want to say in a box and see each other's messages almost instantaneously.

Just as you may receive unwanted e-mail (spam), you and your family may also receive unwanted instant messages (often called "spim"). These instant messages might be from complete strangers or from people you know but don't want to communicate with. They may even contain harmful viruses.

Both Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger make it easy for you to block these unwanted messages, and this is how we do it...

When moving your end users to Linux, you may have encountered a few hurdles to overcome. Nothing outrageous, mind you, but they can be tricky. In some cases, you might need to assist them with new terminology, and maybe some new processes. But with a little planning and scheduling, you can help your end users make the transition easily, and this is how we do it…

Outlook allows you to create folders for email from specific Contacts and automatically collect them in selected folders, and this is how we do it...

Are you tired of manually entering a time and date formula into each of your Microsoft Excel worksheets? Then learn how to shave time off your Excel work by creating a named Date/Time stamp formula, and this is how we do it...

Have you every wanted to publish a word document and include a spreadsheet that changes? Something where the wording stays the same but the numbers change from month to month? Sales Figures, Pricing, Inventory, labor reporting…. Dynamic links, also known as linked objects or embedded objects, may be just what you are looking for, and this is how we do it:

Creating reports can be a laborious process, but it doesn't need to be with this Microsoft Access trick. You can use Microsoft Access' Simple Query Wizard to quickly find summary information on two or more joined tables. For example, suppose at the end of each month you need to create a report summarizing each employee's average, minimum, and maximum hours worked per week for the month of June. You can find the information in two tables, Employees and Hours Worked, which are joined by Employee ID number. This is how we do it:

WiFi is nice for working from home and home networks, allowing the users to work or play on their computers anywhere they can receive a signal, even the hot tub on the back patio. But when Roger goes home, so many of his neighbors are on his WiFI that he can’t even get a signal. What to do???

According to a report released over the holidays, Google may be pushing Windows out the door in favor of internally developed products like Linux and MAC OS...

We get a lot of questions like, can my cell phone do this or that. The following are a list of questions covering the last two weeks:

You have to admit, hackers are creative. A digital traffic sign on the Palmetto Expressway in Northwest Miami-Dade county was hacked to read “NO LATINOS NO TACOS.”, according to nbcmiami.com. By 6 AM, the Florida Highway Patrol and a road crew were working to reset the sign’s message and had turned the sign away from the road.

This isn’t the first time hackers have changed road signs. In Austin Tx back in January of 09 hackers changed a read sign to read “Zombies Head”. And the root cause? Two things: