2005 February

Not everyone has a dedicated fax machine in their home or office. XP includes a fax service that provides you with complete faxing capabilities. Using your XP computer, you can send, receive, track, and monitor faxes.
The Fax service is not installed with XP by default. Therefore, if you want to utilize this feature, you [...]

I never was a true Windows Fanatic. That’s an understatement.
I am sincerely dismayed. Speechless. This Microsoft thing is just a nightmare.
Not that I didn’t know before… but when you hit your nose head into a thick glass wall, you tend to realize with greater depth that what looks transparent may be just as hard as [...]

Finding the right spot for a home office can be a real trick in a small home. With space at a premium, it pays to be innovative. Folks with larger homes and rooms to spare have it easy, in that respect. A spare bedroom can quickly be loaded with computer gear and a generously sized [...]

Hotmail experienced a service outage this week, as countless Hotmail customers were unable to access their e-mail due to a server going down.
According to a CNET report, a Microsoft customer service representative confirmed the outage on Wednesday, and blamed it on a faulty server, but refused to discuss the exact nature of the problem, or [...]

Growing up on a farm or a ranch often gives children greater responsibilities at a younger age that most of their peers. Farms have long been a staple of our society, and life on one is certainly different than just about anywhere else. But like any industry in our society, there are dangers in working [...]

I submitted my serial number a few days ago, to get the Xbox Replacement Cord. Why is a new Xbox power cord needed? According to Xbox, “the replacement power cords are designed to protect consumers and their Xbox consoles from rare electrical component failures that can pose a fire hazard.” Has anybody really been burned [...]

Unix2Win is a simple utility that can convert ASCII text files from Unix to Microsoft Windows format or vice versa. It supports drag and drop. The free version can only convert a single file at a time, while the Pro version can be purchased for batch conversions.
[334K] [Win98/Me/2k/XP] [FREE] [SnapFiles]

I remember how much I looked forward to snow days when I was growing up. It meant a day off of school and all around slacking for the duration of the day. What could be better than that? Seasons come and go, and the prospect of the frozen wonder will go away once summer rolls [...]

Q: I’m a Photoshop user, and have had to deal with slow load times due to the amount of plug-ins and filters that are loaded when the program starts up. How can I customize the startup so that only the stuff that I need to use is loaded?

People get some of the weirdest ideas, and not all of them come from the Internet. However, the Internet has developed some wonderful tools for checking on the credibility of rumors. Recently as a dinner party composed entirely of seniors, one rather open woman scandalized the whole table with a story about “Sex Bracelets” that [...]