At the risk of revealing my age, I can remember when a 10 gigabyte hard drive seemed enormous. Of course those were the days before PCs became vaults for music collections, family photo albums and home video libraries. Now, it seems, no matter how much hard disk space we have, we always need more, w...

Supersize Your Windows Clipboard

March 8, 2006

Clipboard extenders are among the most useful applications in the Windows world. How many times have you overwritten something in the clipboard that you later wish you had available? Clipboard extenders solve that problem by saving everything you cut or copy from your screen and letting you access i...

Second Copy Takes the Hassle Out of Backups

February 1, 2006

Here's the scenario. Something ugly has happened to your computer. Irreplaceable files have been clobbered. You seek assistance from a PC pundit, but you know your files are fly food as soon as you hear, "You're supposed to back up your files, you know." Let's face it. We all have good excuses for f...

Corel Improves a Classic

December 27, 2005

There are lots of software heavyweights in the digital imaging editing field -- sluggers such as Microsoft, Adobe and Ulead -- so it's a wonder that a fine program like Paint Shop Pro has continued to chug along over the years without being derailed as has been the case with so many worthwhile indep...

Command Center Will Elicit Excitement From Bloggers

December 21, 2005

Although blogging has gained a certain amount of notoriety in the media, its tool base remains relatively immature. There are some viable tools available to bloggers offered by hosting services like Blogger and Typepad, but a truly integrated approach has been lacking. But, as any savvy technologist...

Software Tool Fights Information Overload

November 29, 2005

Electronic information has its advantages over paper, but it has its share of snags, too. One of them is finding saved items. In the analog world, some folks keep tabs on their important data bits by scribbling them on post-it notes and sticking them to any available surface in sight, creating a fes...

Don't Sweat Slideshows in Flash

November 23, 2005

The software universe is teeming with programs for creating slideshows from digital images. Many of these applications fulfill their appointed task very well. But one snag for me when creating slideshows has been their file size. Although some programs claim they'll create slideshows suitable for po...

New Blogware Spans Simple to Sublime

October 20, 2005

Although Web logs, or blogs, have attracted a lot of ink and electrons, the keys to their creation and upkeep remain a mystery to many Net surfers. That's not to say that there aren't minds at work in the electronic plasma ruminating on ways to encourage even the meekest Websters to try their hand a...

Give Me a Sidebar, Hold the Search

September 29, 2005

When Google recently released its re-vamped desktop search engine, a central element of the new offering was a sidebar. This clever device gives keyboard jocks quick access to a bundle of useful features. You can read e-mail as soon as it arrives without opening your e-mail program, for instance, or...

A Sweet Suite for Bloggers

August 30, 2005

News syndication and Web logs are two of the hottest technologies on the Internet today. Syndication commonly referred to as RSS or Atom, has become a significant vehicle for delivering news and analysis directly to information hounds and for sharing intelligence within corporations. Web logs, popul...

Free Utilities To Annihilate Spyware

March 19, 2004

Spyware has surpassed viruses as the number one threat facing your computer today. In fact, most estimates report that 90 percent of computers already have been infiltrated by spyware, which is the name given to any program that installs itself on your hard drive, collects personal information about...

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