Windows
Downloading SP2 Is A Pain. What Are My Options?
Q: I still haven’t upgraded to Service Pack 2, and I know that I should probably do it for some of the enhanced security features. I’m on an extremely slow Internet connection, which makes downloading these updates a real hassle. Is there any chance that I can order a CD that contains SP2?
Creating a New Identity in Outlook Express
For those of you who share a computer with other users such as family members, you will probably find this a useful little Outlook Express tip. You set up Outlook Express for multiple users without having to create multiple users accounts in Windows. This is done through Outlook Express identities. An identity in Outlook Express [...]
Customize the Text in Your Comments (Word 2002)
This is one tip that I’ve really found useful. Being a writer and all, I am forever responding to comments in my documents from editors or adding comments of my own. I’ve often wondered about increasing the size of the fonts in my comments but never bothered to take a few minutes to figure out [...]
CYDA: Cover Your Digital Ass(ets)!
Can’t find that file? Digital Asset Management (or DAM for short) allows your organization to smartly store and access digital audio, video, images, and other graphics. Generally speaking, digital asset management systems are specialized central databases that allow quick access to non-text data. While the practice of digital asset management first took off with advertising [...]
Clarification of the difference between worms, trojans, and viruses
Gnomie Filksinger writes: Leo, I read your short article on the difference between worms, trojans, and viruses, and found myself wanting to set the record straight. Recently, I have seen a number of articles that attempt to define the difference between a worm and a virus, but they seem to have lost the technical definition. [...]
The Once and Future King: Sanford Wallace Defends His Crown
Sanford Wallace, the original “Spam King” (sorry, Mr. Richter), is back in the news. Wallace is perhaps best known for the run-ins which he and his company, Cyberpromotions, had with AOL and Compuserve back in the 1990s. At that time both companies sued Wallace for spamming them, and AOL’s victory on appeal set some of [...]
To Plan a Business Plan
Did I start with a business plan? No. Did I plan to have a business? No. What you see today is nothing more than an idea that evolved – and kept evolving. They didn’t have business plan software for Internet folks like me. I never went the route of venture capital, either – which is [...]
Shop4Tech DVD Media Specials
Experts agree that the worlds of mass data storage and entertainment are evolving fast to DVD technology, which is providing new outlets for entertainment, personal productivity, video, and recording. Now Shop4tech is making DVD media more affordable than ever before. For example, Shop4tech offers Ritek DVD-R 8x (DVDminusR) at $0.45 in a bulk pack of [...]
News of the Weird
Sitting down to watch the news or read a newspaper is usually a very disturbing experience. Most of the stories that we are subjected to involve how many people died today, how they died, and why we’re all dying because of what we’re doing to ourselves. Yeah… depressing. Sometimes it’s nice to step away from [...]
No More Squinting At The Browser…
Q: One of the problems that I keep running into is that a lot of the text on the Web pages that I visit is too small. I don’t have crystal clear eyesight, and would really appreciate the ability to enlarge the text in my browser. How do I do this in IE?
