KEEPING UP WITH UPDATES

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...

TECH TIPS FOR THE BASIC COMPUTER USER

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...

WINDOWS XP & BEETHOVEN

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony can cause the installation of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to fail. Ah, the good old days! I used to be able to solve so many problems because I would run into them more than once! These days nothing happens the same way twice. It’s...

MEDIA IN THE LIVING ROOM

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...

APPLE BLUESCREEN FOLLOWUP

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,...