2006

Pizzas! Donuts! French Fries! How many orders can you handle at once?
Delivery King puts you in the driver’s seat as you race all over town delivering orders to eager customers. Get the orders correct, and you are on the road to success, but there are a few bumps along the way. You’ll have special [...]

I have always had a love for the simple text editors. I don’t need fancy fonts or hundreds of features that I will never use. All you need to do to keep me happy is give me a basic text editor with a few extra perks here and there. ConTEXT is one of the best [...]

Each time you start Microsoft Word, the Startup Task Pane is displayed along the side. It presents you with a list of common tasks that includes:

Open an existing document

Open a new document

Open a new document from an existing document, and

Open a new document from a template

Some people never use the Startup Task Pane when they [...]

Every good (and bad) geek child needs a fast, efficient, and electronic way to send that proverbial letter to Santa. And good geek kids, of course, procrastinate along with the rest of us. So, for those of you still needing to send that letter and can’t stand the idea of paper, pen, and licking [...]

There are many compelling reasons to upgrade to Microsoft Office 2007 suite of programs soon - vastly overhauled interfaces, newly designed menus and toolbars, jazzy new features, time-saving templates, and animated effects. Unfortunately, the only thing missing was quality documentation. That is until now. Four new books in the Missing Manual series - the books [...]

Wondering why you didn’t hear from me on Friday night? Like most of the greater Seattle area, we lost all electricity at 1:30AM in the storm of the decade:
Residents of the Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm Saturday after the worst windstorm in more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5 million [...]

This collection, as selected by PC World, includes calendars, clocks, desktop organizers, personal information managers, and a tool for ridding your hard disk of duplicate files.
DoubleKiller
Remove duplicate files from multiple folders or from the other side of the partition.
KeyNote
Free personal information manager for notes, to-do items, contacts, and passwords.
Calendar Wizard
Create and print custom calendars using [...]

I’ve repeatedly talked about how lame I am in the kitchen, and despite my best intentions to improve, progress is never made. I stay so busy during the day that the idea of even taking the time to sit and think about what I could potentially cook and what it would take to do so [...]

As regular readers know, we’ve recently replaced our seven-year-old Gateway with a new PC - exactly four times the processor speed of the old machine (and dual-core to boot), with four times the memory and 25 times the storage. It’s a big change. For one thing, I now understand what all the Google [...]

Each year, NORAD keeps an eye on Santa as he makes his Christmas journey. You can track Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve with the kids at the NORAD Tracks Santa Web site.
On December 24th, the kids can call the tracking service toll free at 1-877-Hi-NORAD anytime after 9AM Eastern Standard Time (7AM Mountain Standard Time) [...]