2006 April

Do you own an inkjet printer? Has the printhead ever clogged up on you, creating streaks or missing colors from your printing?
Clogs can be incredibly frustrating. Normally when you find out you have a clogged printhead, it’s because you’re right in the middle of printing something important. It’s one of those problems that you never [...]

I’ve set up an FTP server. My ISP is giving me an ADSL connection with an speed it says is 768k for uploads and 8M down. And yet I’m seeing my uploads are around 85k and 90k.
I need faster uploads. Can I change something about my system to make that happen?
There’s one big potential point [...]

The Nebula Awards are the science fiction awards chosen by the writers.
The nominees can be found here, as can links to excerpts from the books nominated.

A recent article in the Washington Post resonated with issues I have with several of my senior clients. What privileges should the owner of a computer have? Most of my clients now have XP and the default when making new user accounts is to grant full administrator privileges. This can be dangerous for two reasons: [...]

The boob tube. The idiot box. The one-eyed monster.
A couple of generations back, there was no such thing as television. Entertainment was either the radio, reading, or family fun and games.
Then, in the 1950s, everything changed. EVERYONE had to have a television.
That leads us to today. It would probably be impossible for you to find [...]

MySpace is all the rage these days. Everybody’s there - even me. Yes, I have a profile on MySpace. Why? I still don’t know. For the truly curious, MySpace is an online social networking site of sorts - a gateway for you to discover or rediscover old friends and new friends. You haven’t heard of [...]

FastWrite is the best way to enhance your daily computer use. It is here to help you write faster, accomplish your tasks more easily, and with only one hand!

I like to take a lot of notes. Sometimes I can come up with a great idea, and if I don’t write it down that instant, it’ll be gone before I know it. Having piles of notes around your desk isn’t too efficient, so I have chosen to go down the digital route. [...]

For those that have a knack for it, podcasting can be a fun way to get your name out there and attract an audience to the work that you’re doing. However, all is not perfect in the world of Internet radio. No matter how good you are, making money off of your audio project is [...]

Once you paste an Excel spreadsheet into your PowerPoint presentation, it is displayed as black text with a white background. If you are trying to spruce up your presentation, you can easily change these colors.
After you have used the Paste Special function to bring your Excel spreadsheet into PowerPoint, you can use the steps [...]