Every group of friends has that one person to go to for tech advice: what kind of TV to buy, the right HTML tags to pimp out a MySpace page, and so on. Believe me, I would know. But although I consider myself fairly willing to share the tech wealth, my powers pale in comparison with the sage wisdom dispersed in the "Ask a Geek" feature found in each issue of Popular Science. Every month, we feed the practical questions faced by everyday netizens to some of the Web's brightest minds-including Gina Trapani (editor of Lifehacker), Merlin Mann (editor of 43 Folders), Jake Ludington (keeper of the MediaBlab blog) and Annalee Newitz (tech writer extraordinaire, Second Life whiz)-, anything from ridding your computer of spyware to using any song file on your computer as a ringtone.
But that´s only the beginning. Here we present a compendium of the choicest nuggets of nerdy advice-get yourself a geek education by launching the photo gallery.
And if you have any wisdom of your own to share, or perhaps a question for our geeks, we want to hear about it over on the How 2.0 Blog. -John Mahoney
Table of Contents:
- How Do I Hang My Flat-Screen TV? by Bryan Greenway
How (and Why) Should I Encrypt My Data? by Gina Trapani- Can I Download Streaming Videos Off the Web? by Jake Ludington
- Can I Plug In My Prius? by Stephan Wilkinson
- Can Viruses Attack My Cellphone? by Eugene Kaspersky
- How Can I Make a Personalized Email Address? by Merlin Mann
- How Can I Surf the Web Anonymously? by Annalee Newitz
- How Can I Guard Against Spyware? by Ben Edelman
- Can I Use My Own Songs as Ringtones? by Gina Trapani
- What Music Format is Best? by Jonathan Coulton
- Why Do Batteries Explode? by Nicole Dyer
- Is the Music Industry Still Suing People? by Fred von Lohmann
- Can I Wipe My Name off the Web? by Lauren Gelman
- How Can I Tame My Overflowing Inbox? by Merlin Mann
