Jim Coates

Q. My question involves using digital cameras while on the road. I'll be traveling abroad for an extended period and won't have a personal computer. I will have access to...

Q. I am writing a factual book about an American navigator and the French resistance short-wave radio operator who saved him during World War II. But I can find no...

Q. Is there an LCD television set that can work as a computer monitor as well? I'd like to do the home theater thing with the large TV screen but...

Q. I need real answers and not b.s. from the techies! I want to put a Western Digital 320-gigabyte EIDE drive in my Dell 8250 by removing the ZIP drive...

Starting with this column, Ask Jim is moving from Monday's Business section into Tempo each Tuesday, with an emphasis on helping readers manage their digital lifestyles Q. Can you offer...

Q. I downloaded Hotbar and didn't like it. I got many more pop-ups. I deleted it and the toolbar. Now I can't enlarge my type for my hard-of-seeing friends. There...

Q. I run Windows XP with Norton virus protection. When I do a scan of my computer, it shows that I have one infected file, which Norton identifies as MediaTicketInstaller.ocx,...

Q. When I save an e-mail message from Outlook Express to another file on my hard drive, does the original message remain in Outlook Express? In other words, am I...

Q. Even though I'm the only one that uses it, Windows makes me log on every time I turn on my computer. I understand there is a fix that eliminates...

Q. I seem to have a bug in my Internet Explorer file. I accidentally clicked on an ad on a Web site. As a result, every time I am on...