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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out which newspapers are set to charge you for reading their content online, check the latest news on Twitter in newspaper format and read a new magazine on social media marketing.

You can also learn how to discover the technologies employed behind any Web site and get 14 Internet tips to cut your cost of living from the aptly named lovemoney.com.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about the secrets your photocopier knows and might give away, how to avoid the hackers who want to hijack your e-mail account and how to benefit by tagging along with the copyists who steal your web content.

You can also learn  how to get free analytics for your web site from Google and Yahoo and find out who might deliver the extra Internet speed still to be released by the old copper network telephone connections.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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My home network was never planned (it just kind of happened), but since its inception it  grew rapidly to meet my ever expanding needs. For along time it more than met my requirements, but as is inevitable,  I began to demand more of it than it could comfortably provide. So after much deliberation I have just completed a long awaited and much needed upgrade.

My home network originally grew from having a single Laser printer connected directly to my PC, to having my house wired throughout with CAT5e network cable, with every room having potential access to the Internet and a central file server. The file server was responsible for storing all of the household’s data (user files, music and pictures etc.).

My file server (an old 300MHz Compaq) was probably passed its sell by date when I first installed it, but after 5 years of continuous use it was certainly struggling to keep up. This, coupled with the fact that my storage capacity of 100GB was almost maxed out, meant that it really was time to upgrade!

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out about foreign language tips for companies ready to expand with overseas exports, learn a new language by making new friends and get tasty marketing tips from some of the most successful kitchen table start-up companies.

You can also learn how to find an unregistered one-word domain name for almost any new Web site and discover a camera not much bigger than a postage stamp.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can find out how to get a free business desk in Wales, discover the next generation of young entrepreneur dragons, read an Internet guide for watchful parents, and learn how to avoid Google getting too personal and check the basic search results instead.

You can also learn about  four ways to find real-time search and why it’s wasted elsewhere, who should be radical, competitive, accountable, innovative and green, and say goodbye at last to IE 6.0.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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