OLD-FASHIONED PAPER CLIP IS THE TOOL FOR A HIGH-TECH PROBLEM
Q--When I installed a program from a CD-ROM, the CD-ROM drive froze up. The installation disk is still in the drive and the drive tray will not open or respond....
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FROM EBAY TO EJAIL
Bid adieu for the next 14 months to Robert J. Guest, 31, of Blue Jay, Calif., who got that federal jail sentence for bilking $37,000 out of eBay Internet auction...
USING WINDOWS TV TAKES MORE THAN A LITTLE FINE-TUNING
Q--As you know, Windows 98 offers a program called Microsoft Windows TV. I installed it and have the little TV screen icon on my task bar. When I log on,...
INTELLIMOUSE COULD BE THE LIGHT AT THE END OF CARPAL TUNNEL
Q--It was not entirely clear from your recent review of the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer whether it would be an improvement for people suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. Would an Intellimouse...
RUE BRITANNICA
Chicago's super-prestigious Britannica Inc. stunned the world last week by flat-out offering the entire content of its marvelous 40-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica for free at www.britannica.com. You woulda thought it was...
TO CLEAN KEYBOARDS, THE BEST APPROACH RUNS MILD
Q--I ran to the Jewel grocery store yesterday to find a cleaner for my dirty keypads. I asked the cashiers what they used, and two responded, "Alcohol." A man standing...
FLIPPING PHOTOS BETWEEN FORMATS IS TRULY A SNAP
Q--I have several photographs saved as .bmp files that I would like to export into a program I have that will only accept .jpg format. Is there any way to...
DIGITAL DETENTE
Kilobyte kudos and then some to the Macintosh geniuses at Aladdin Systems Inc. who just shipped a peacemaker of a software package called Dragstrip that goes a long way toward...
ADHERE TO THIS IDEA: ATTACH, RATHER THAN PASTE
Q--I am trying to find a new job. I hope to be able to send my resume via e-mail. When I attempted to test the process by cut and paste,...
$500 PALM GREASE
It's already old hat back East, but 3Com, the huge California company that devoured Skokie-based U.S. Robotics in 1997, finally has shipped the gold-plated $500 status symbol known as Palm...