Jim Coates

Q--I have been using Eudora as my mail client for the past few years, but recently I have been looking at the Netscape Messenger as an excellent e-mail facility as...

Q. I have wallpaper on my desktop and the labels for all of the icons on my desktop get lost in the paper. It drives me nuts because they're hard...

Roy, Utah-based Iomega Corp., maker of those hot selling 100 megabyte Zip removable storage drives for PCs and Macs, hit an ugly snag last week. For reasons unknown it scrapped...

Techies in the Midwest will just have to wait for autumn before they can plunk down $600 for the status symbol Palm VII personal digital assistants from 3Com Corp. Meanwhile,...

Q. Can you tell me how to "iconize" or otherwise set up my screen saver so that I can activate it at will, rather than wait for the preprogrammed time...

Q. No spell check on Outlook Express. What is the problem? Vincent Casolaro @lasercom.net A. You're a man of few words, Mr. C. Here's a few back at ya: No...

Here's something else you can do with your computer, a $100 scanner and a color printer: Make money at home. Scan a sawbuck, fire up Word97, click "Print" 5 or...

Q. My CD-ROM drive (E) has worked fine for three years. All of a sudden, after installing the PrintMaster desktop publishing software, the CD no longer wants to work. Each...

Yes, friends and neighbors, we've got a new concept of Internet advertising called permission marketing in which the seller finds a way to reward the viewer for looking at an...

Q--My 4-year-old Compaq Presario came preloaded with a nifty program, Media Pilot, which, among other things, served as an answering machine for the telephone line to which the machine was...