''Smart Computing'' was a monthly

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and

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magazine published by

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Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol ...

Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the sout ...

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. First released under the name ''PC Novice'', it was published from 1990 to 2013.

Content

The magazine featured articles, reviews of hardware and

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, editorial content and classified

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. It was geared more toward newer users than its sister publications, ''Computer Power User'' and ''CyberTrend'' (previously known as ''PC Today'').

Articles and Features

*''Technology News and Notes'', by Christian Perry - News and a monthly Q/A help desk *''Tech Diaries'', various authors - Reviews *''Software Head-to-Head'', various authors - a comparison of software :*September 2006:

Anti-Spam Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...

: ,

SonicWALL SonicWall is an American cybersecurity company that sells a range of Internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security. These include devices providing services for network firewalls, unified threat management (UTM) ...

Email Security Desktop, OnlyMyEmail, VQme Anti Spam with Webmail. Winner:

Email Security Desktop :*October 2006:

Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

clients:

Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated Y!M) was an advertisement-supported instant messaging client (computing), client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger was provided free of charge and could be downloaded and used wit ...

8, AIM Triton 1.5, Google Talk, ICQ 5.1, Trillian 3.1,

Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as "Messenger"), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger, was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft. It connected to the Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versio ...

. Winner:

:*January 2007:

Office suite Productivity software (also called personal productivity software or office productivity software) is application software used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, digital painting ...

StarOffice StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary office suite, intended to compete with the marketing-leading Microsoft Office. It served as the basis for open-source suites OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the OpenOffice.org XML f ...

Microsoft Office 2007 Microsoft Office 2007 (codenamed Office 12) is an office suite for Windows, developed and published by Microsoft. It was officially revealed on March 9, 2006 and was the 12th version of Microsoft Office. It was released to manufacturing on Novem ...

Home and Student Edition, Corel WordPerfect X3 Standard Edition,

Ability Office Ability Office is an office suite developed by Ability Plus Software and distributed and marketed by Ability Software International and which consists of a word processor, spreadsheet, database, modules for presentation and photo or image editing ...

Standard Edition. Winner:

8 *''Software Reviews'', various *''Staff Picks'', various - staff's choices of hardware *''Windows Tips & Tricks'', various - helpful hints for using Microsoft Windows *''General Computing'', various - articles about no specific topic :*''Reader's Tips'', by readers - readers give hints to other readers :*''Learning Linux'', by

Vince Cogley Vince is a given name, it is the anglicisation and shortened form of the name Vincent, as well as a surname. It may refer to: Given name People * Vince Agnew (born 1987), American football player * Vince Cable (born 1943), British politici ...

, NEW COLUMN - teach yourself using

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with the

Ubuntu Ubuntu ( ) is a Linux distribution based on Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. Ubuntu is officially released in three editions: '' Desktop'', ''Server'', and ''Core'' for Internet of things devices and robots. All ...

distribution *''Plugged In'', various - tips on using the Internet *''Mr. Modem's Desktop'', by Mr. Modem - various tips and Internet links *''Quick Studies'', various - tips on and fixing problems with using very commonly used software *''Tidbits'', by Marty Sems - information on new stuff *''Tech Support'', various - consists of: :*''What to Do When...'' - a guide on fixing road-block problems :*''Examining Errors'' - the magazine helps readers with errors :*''Fast Fixes'' - information on new

software updates A patch is a set of changes to a computer program or its supporting data designed to update, fix, or improve it. This includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs, with such patches usually being called bugfixes or bug fixes. Patche ...

:*''Q&A'' - answers to tech support questions :*''FAQ'' - answers to frequently asked questions; each month all questions are about the same topic *'' Action Editor'', unknown - Action Editor comes to the rescue when companies deny service or give bad service *'' Tales From The Trenches'', by Gregory Anderson - his bad experiences when using computers and what to do about them if they happen to you *'' Editorial License'', by Rod Scher - description unknown

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