Firefox add-on helps create new generation of ‘widows’
Today's topic, friends and neighbors, is what I have chosen to call FLV Widows. So some explaining is in order. They used to call women like my long-suffering missus Computer...
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Movie-editing program contained in Windows
Q. I'm a PC user wanting to edit some AVI format video files for use on my Web site. My goal is to do some titles, fades, etc. Is there...
Ho-hum? Vista a sight to behold for photos, video
A couple of months ago I bought my annual new Windows computer, a hulking gunmetal-gray box with high-end dual-processing Intel chips, top-of-the-line graphics and 2 gigabytes of random access memory....
Snap Art snazzy; free Paint powerful
In springtime, a young (or less-than-young) man's fancy turns lightly to thoughts of lovely vacation experiences to be preserved as digital pictures. Ditto for women. What a sea of snapshots...
Screen glitch sings lullaby to keyboard
Q. I have a very vexing problem with my keyboard on an HP Pavilion system running Windows XP when the computer goes to sleep (standby mode). It does not recognize...
Tiny hard drive packed with lots of power, privacy
Sometimes a device (OK, a gadget) comes along that performs so elegantly that it promises a whole new way of going about one's life at the level of personal technology....
Setting change fixes glitch, but new computer overdue
Q. I am a 68-year-old man still using my old PC. Most of the time when I search something or write an e-mail, I get a long message saying, "The...
Vector graphics to the Xtreme–even at high price
Today's vocabulary builder word is "vector," girls and boys. You know, as in that classic scene in the "Airplane" movie series where the navigator is named Victor and one pilot's...
Outlook for clearing up e-mail mess is good
Q. I need help to straighten out my e-mail after trying unsuccessfully to change from Microsoft Outlook Express to the Yahoo Mail site on the Web. I opened Microsoft Outlook...
Microsoft makes basic tools of accounting free for taking
In my life, "accounts receivable" means chits written on scraps of paper during poker games. "Gross" is the thought of Richard Nixon pouring ketchup on his cottage cheese. "Net" is...