There was a lot of hype surrounding the recent release of Microsoft’s two new offerings: the Vista OS family and Office 2007 family.
As a beta tester for Vista, I didn’t feel it was ready to be released yet but, hey - what do I know. I’m merely an end user. Of course, the [...]

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For years now, I have been an advocate for educating the masses on how to use the internet safely, and have verbally and vehemently preached the rationale and necessity for safe internet practices. Up until now, it’s all been through minimal instructional excerpts. With the increased availability of computers in households, and inherent risks abounding, the time has come to take a more pro-active role - from a parental and communal responsibility - to ensure the safety of our kids.

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We were recently provided with a short guide entitled: “Parents Guide to Internet Slang: Understand How Your Kids Communicate Online.”

Leetspeak, or ‘leet’ for short (a vernacular form of ‘elite’), is a specific type of computer slang in which a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically. Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways, using different substitutions and combinations.

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