What Makes an Email Spam? How to Avoid It

By Kim Bowen

In today's world of technology, we spend much less time writing letters to business associates and more time composing emails, so there is a large concern about what differentiates true email from spam email. Most people have reported that nearly half of the emails they received on a daily basis are actual spam emails. With tight deadlines to meet, many people do not have the time to filter through each one of these emails to filter out the true emails.

IT Magazines 2011

9. CIO 

 

CIO is an IT magazine that covers interesting information technology subjects but doesn't give you a lot for your money. The magazine only offers a handful of articles, and just as many ads, with each issue. We would have liked to see something more substantial for the price you pay. Overall, we liked the few IT articles they include, but we didn't see anything impressive in this magazine's content or design.

Facebook Fan Page Creation Tools 2011

10. thruSocial 

 

ThruSocial, a do-it-yourself Facebook tab creation service, offers an ample collection of widgets and Facebook layouts that will enhance your Facebook fan page. However, when evaluating its Pro service, we were unable to publish our tab into the Facebook application, even after several attempts. When we contacted its customer service department, we didn't receive a response for days. And even when we did, customer service was not able to assist us.

Magix Music Maker 17

 

The first time we used Magix Music Maker, we quickly realized it had to be our top choice for audio editing software. No other application offers the user-oriented design, the visual audio graphics, and the advanced tools and features that we found in Magix Music Maker. This software offers a unique and intuitive design, fantastic visuals and intricate details you can use on your audio edits. With the number of tools that are available within the application and the efficient customer or technical support that Magix provides, it was an easy choice to give them the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for audio editing software. We highly recommend Magix Music Maker to anyone; it is well-rounded and provides easy-to-use tools considering its large, complex feature set.

Top 10 Video Editing Software 2011

10. ShowBiz DVD 2 

 

You can create professional-grade movies with smooth transitions, functional menus and unique sound tracks with the video editing software ShowBiz DVD. This application is easy to use so you can quickly copy and burn videos. However, if you’re looking for video editing software that publishes video to the web or as MPEGs, you might want to look at another application.

top 10 Disk Recovery Software 2011

10. Windows Data Recovery 2.0.1 

 

 

Disk Doctors is a well-known enterprise in the realm of data recovery, offering both data recovery services and software for business and home computer users. The company's Windows Data Recovery application is adequate disk recovery software that recovers accidentally deleted data and data lost from corrupted, missing or reformatted partitions. While the software clearly demonstrated its recovery capabilities, the application isn't without some glaring deficiencies.

High End CPUs - Updated 6th of June 2011

High End CPUs - Updated 6th of June 2011

Processor	PassMark CPU Mark Score	Price (USD)
Intel Xeon W3690 @ 3.47GHz	11,179	$1,079.99*
Intel Core i7 995X @ 3.60GHz	10,862	NA
Intel Core i7 990X @ 3.47GHz	10,608	$999.99*
Intel Core i7 980X @ 3.33GHz	10,602	$1,049.99*
Intel Xeon X5690 @ 3.47GHz	10,184	NA
Intel Core i7 970 @ 3.20GHz	9,956	$579.99*
Intel Xeon W3680 @ 3.33GHz	9,920	$1,116.41*
Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33GHz	9,904	$1,639.99*
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz	9,568	$314.99*
Intel Xeon E31245 @ 3.30GHz	9,418	NA
Intel Xeon E31280 @ 3.50GHz	9,397	NA
Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz	9,358	$1,448.99*
Intel Xeon X5675 @ 3.07GHz	9,326	$1,479.99**
Intel Xeon E31275 @ 3.40GHz	9,142	NA
Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz	8,878	$297.00*
Intel Xeon W3670 @ 3.20GHz	8,628	NA
Intel Xeon X7560 @ 2.27GHz	8,591	NA
Intel Xeon X5660 @ 2.80GHz	8,541	$1,239.99*
Intel 0 @ 3.00GHz	8,074	NA
Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz	7,970	$1,017.99*
Intel Xeon E31240 @ 3.30GHz	7,856	NA
Intel 0 @ 2.20GHz	7,732	$122.06*
Intel Core i7-2920XM @ 2.50GHz	7,701	NA
Intel Xeon X5687 @ 3.60GHz	7,673	NA

Top 10 Online Photo Editing 2011

10. Pixenate

Pixenate is an online photo editing service that offers just the basics. It has a very simple interface, making it easy to find all the effects and tools available. The color adjustments and effects are easy to find, but some of them are a little difficult to use. For example, features like hue and saturation require you to adjust the percentage of the effect. Having to gauge the effect you want to a precise number can make it difficult to use these tools efficiently. Also, compared to other online photo editing services, Pixenate takes a longer time to apply any edits or adjustments to your photos. Overall, this is a less efficient service because you will be spending more time not only adjusting effects but also waiting for Pixenate to apply the effect to your photo.
Pixenate offers editing tools, such as crop, rotate, red eye and teeth whitening. There are a few adjustments available, including contrast and brightness. All of these tools can be used to give your photos a professional look. The tools are found on Pixenate’s tool bar. Pixenate also offers what they call “fun effects,” where you can add text, frames, and stickers that will enhance the look of your photos. Pixenate offers all the editing tools you will need, but it is lacking a little in effects. There are effects such as black and white, sepia and textures available, but common effects like tint, invert and sketch are not available with Pixenate. These omissions are disappointing because these effects are available in most of the other photo editing services we reviewed.

Top 10 Laptop Computer 2011

10. Lenovo IdeaPad U330 

 

 

9. Gateway NV5807u 

 

 

8. Lenovo IdeaPad U350 

 

The stylish Lenovo IdeaPad U350 occupies the space between tiny, relatively low powered netbooks and more powerful but also bulkier laptops. While that compromise position continues to some extent, there have recently been some very important improvements to it in terms of computing power that make it a far more attractive package. For other highly rated devices in this category, check out our Laptop Computer Review site.

Top 10 Antivirus Software review

10. Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus +

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus + (formerly PC-cillin) is another great antivirus software, combining good security with simple usability. The software is well equipped to protect your computer from a number of threats, and has made several improvements this year. The most noteworthy new feature is the addition of cloud-based security, specifically designed to improve detection and resource usage. By running most of the security processes online, Trend Micro Titanium antivirus software detects threats before they make their way to your computer. Furthermore, since most of it is hosted online, you don’t have to waste your hard drive space to store it yourself.

Top 10 Most Famous Hackers

Black Hat Crackers
The Internet abounds with hackers, known as crackers or "black hats," who work to exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. In this section we profile five of the most famous and interesting "black hat" hackers.

1. Jonathan James: James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, "I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off."
   James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords.
   

top 7 Graphics Cards 2011

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7. ATI Radeon HD 5770 Review

 

All the modern graphics cards have gone to dual power connectors. Well, all but one. There are actually others, like the rest of the 5000 series ATI cards (which we haven’t looked at) that are less powerful than the 5770, but it seemed odd for this one to only have the single connection. It’s really not a big deal, other than it limits the amount of power it can take in safely, but it is odd. Maybe ATI didn’t have gaming and other intense graphics rendering in mind for the ATI Radeon HD 5770? Whether that is the case or not, it's still a good card. See other great graphic cards in our comparative review site.