Windows
Why Did My Home Network Stop Working?
I’m not able to reach some Web sites, and the list seems to be growing. I’ve checked your other articles on the topic, but nothing seems to help. Now, all of a sudden, I can’t reach anything. Even my email doesn’t work. What’s going on? There are so many reasons that things can go wrong, [...]
A Few Free Fonts
I’m a font freak – always have been, always will be. I’m not even sure when my “fontaticism” started, but I still remember getting jazzed over changing fonts in DOS (yes, on the command line completely outside of a GUI). I even created a few “DOS fonts” with a long-since forgotten PC Magazine utility, FONTEDIT.COM. [...]
Chess Opening Trainer
Chess Opening Trainer will help you learn and remember chess opening theory faster than ever before. In addition, you can use this software to build your opening repertoire. Unlike the other chess training software, Chess Opening Trainer does not randomly select training moves and positions. It smartly selects and serves the training move and position [...]
Visual Task Tips v2.0
As time passes, it seems like the public is becoming more and more unsure about how good Windows Vista will be. If it does not live up to the hype, how about we just rip some of the good things out of it and bring them to Windows XP? I think that was the thought [...]
SnipShot
I may not be the biggest digital photographer on the planet, but I occasionally take pictures and create graphics that I’d like to use online, and before I’m able to do so in a proper way, I sometimes find that I need to make a few simple edits first. That’s usually no problem because there [...]
Not Such A Bad Barter, After All
Last week’s column discussed the difficulty I have making specific hardware recommendations for my senior clients. Even when I take into account their abilities, expectations, and budget, the choices are overwhelming. Maybe I shouldn’t feel like this, but if the client is happy with a choice I made, then it is moderately satisfying. If the [...]
Convert Your Powerpoint Presentation To A Word Document (PowerPoint 2002)
If you want to turn a PowerPoint presentation into a Word document, one method you can use is to manually copy the text from one to the other. This is fine for a small presentation but can be time consuming for larger ones. There are a couple of alternative methods for moving your slides to [...]
Prompt For File Properties When Saving PPT Presentations
Each presentation you create has a set of properties. Filling in the properties when you save a presentation is useful when it comes time to performing searches. You can later search based on these file properties. One of the ways that you can remind yourself to fill in the properties is to have Microsoft PowerPoint [...]
Home Theater Speakers Tips
Consumer Reports reviews them regularly, and you can get their take on how good Bose (and other) speakers are. You should also go the websites of the high end magazines: Stereophile and The Absolute Sound to get an idea of what they consider to be good budget level home theater speakers. You might be pleasantly [...]
VolumeTouch v1.1
With the many different computer setups we have out there in the world today, there are many different ways of controlling your speaker volume. You could use the built-in tools Windows provides. You could use an external volume knob. If you have the freeware program, VolumeTouch, you could do it a number of other ways, [...]
