Again this week, we had one of our loyal subscribers send us a copy of a competing Windows newsletter who sent a special email to subscribers offering a “special deal” on a system information tool for $9.95 . Well that’s great, but since there are free system information tools that do the same things and provide the same… Read More »
I love words. You probably think I love them too much. Oh well. You probably think I don’t use them correctly, right? Oh well. I try my best. All you can do is do your best and if it is not good enough then try harder. OK. I will. But for now, be sated with the knowledge that… Read More »
There are screenshot programs that are great and there are some not so great. There are some like FastStone Capture that were great and free and now are great and not free. There are screen video capture programs that are not free and some free. But we’ve never seen a program that lets you do screen captures and… Read More »
Many of you will be getting new computers soon – Christmas is coming and all of that. And about half of you are still using Windows XP – and that’s fine. But those machines are getting older and the problems are going to increase – and in 2014 Windows is going to stop supporting XP which means you… Read More »
While the Internet and computers have changed so much in the last ten years, one of the things that most of us still really like are great desktop wallpapers. And National Geographic has some of the best photographers and photography in the world – for those of us who like to use our desktops to display beautiful photographs,… Read More »
Last week while preparing this newsletter I was fooling around with a few new programs, one of them a PDF program installed drivers to my Windows 7 computer. Any time you install drivers for a program or whatever it seems something in Windows gets mentally unbalanced or angry. Windows got angry with me. Now for years I’ve written… Read More »