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Sean Gallagher is an award-winning technology journalist and blogger, and a veteran tech professional. He has been reporting on the technology industry, testing new tech products and explaining their inner workings for 20 years. Gallagher has written for the Baltimore Sun, InformationWeek, eWeek.com, and InfoWorld.com, among others. He's also worked in information technology in every role from wire-puller to director of technology strategy.

Gallagher lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and three children—and frequently uses Facebook instant messaging to tell his teenage son to take out the trash.

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Protecting Your Web Browsing From Prying Eyes

By: Sean Gallagher

January 20, 2011

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Every time you get on the web, where you point your browser can be recorded. Whether you're at work, on a public wireless network at a coffee bar, or even at home, your web travels are an open book if the network is being monitored, either at the Internet router or from within your wireless network. And often, web sites can tell where you're visiting from based on your computer's internet address.

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Preserving Yourself on the Web for Eternity

By: Sean Gallagher

January 19, 2011

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There are times that I wish my kids were able to talk with my grandfather about his experiences—not just read about them, or hear me tell about them third hand, but ask him what it what it was like to land at Omaha Beach, or to work in a train yard.

It's for just such reasons that a company called Intellitar has created a way for people to virtually "clone" themselves online. Virtual Eternity is a web service that lets you create an "intelligent avatar" or Intellitar, of themselves that is supposed to look, act, and talk like them.

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Three High-Tech Ways Travelers Put Privacy At Risk

By: Sean Gallagher

January 18, 2011

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One of the things about computers that drives a lot of my friends nuts is installing software. When you buy software for your PC these days, you're often given a choice—purchase it on a CD-ROM or DVD , or download the software from an Internet site. Either way, the installation process for new software usually requires jumping through some hoops, entering a key code, and making sure that everything is configured just right—or your software will run erratically.

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