Oct 15, 2008 | Microsoft, Office, security, Vista, WinXP
Microsoft released security updates on Tuesday night, following its normal monthly schedule. Your computer should have restarted during the night. We’re all overwhelmed by updates but we’re stuck with them. The holes fixed today are the ones that the bad...
Oct 3, 2008 | Apple, computers, Vista, WinXP
You might find something you can use in this collection of tips from David Pogue. Take a look! These are just examples from a much longer list:You can enlarge the text on any Web page. In Windows, press Ctrl and the plus or minus keys (for bigger or smaller fonts); on...
Sep 17, 2008 | Apple, audio, hardware, Microsoft, network, photos, software, video, Vista, WinXP
Since the market for living room computers never developed, Microsoft decided to focus on “extenders,” a different way to deliver media to your television. Huge numbers of people already have a computer in the house running Windows Vista Home Premium,...
Sep 17, 2008 | audio, computers, Microsoft, photos, video, Vista, WinXP
Your photos are on your computer. Your music is on your computer. It makes sense that computers should be able to record TV shows – it’s kind of a computery thing to do, right? It’s probably occurred to you that it makes sense to store movies on a...
Sep 12, 2008 | Apple, audio, mobile, phone, software, Vista, WinXP
Apple reacted quickly to the reports that the latest iTunes update has caused some Windows systems to crash badly. Last night Apple posted another version of iTunes that rolls back the offending hardware driver to an older version. If your system is blue screening,...