Thunderstorm

Today is too hot, too humid, too strange, too oppressive. Only the tropical can savor this wet , hot air and be happy. Even the children are languid. The subtle breeze that brought this summer is gone. Misty fields of spring are now overgrown with summer, its lushness of spreading crops, weeds, and strange dusty green things a… Read More »

The Good ol’ NUM LOCK Key… What’s It For?

Carrie wants to know what the “NUM LOCK” key is for One thing I’ve always wanted to know is what the key called “Num Lock” key is for. I press it and nothing happens. Can you tell me and other dummies like me what this key is useful for? Thanks, Carrie. Our Answer Hi Carrie, you’re not a… Read More »

Copy Files Faster

There’s a place in your computer life for using file to file backup — but not instead of full drive image backups. But for things like photos, music, documents and videos, keeping a quickly accessible backup folder is a good idea. But if you’ve ever tried copying, say 14GB of data from one place to another in Windows,… Read More »

Trickery From SoftPedia

SoftPedia was once a great place to go for bug-free freeware. The other day I (TC) was working on someone’s computer wearing my Cloudeight Direct hat, when I determined that the customer could benefit from a freeware program. I wasn’t sure of the developer’s Web site URL so I google the name of the program and ended up… Read More »

All About Firewalls

Jack wants us to explain firewalls So many other sites claim we need something better than Windows firewall but you say we don’t. If I have a firewall do I still need antivirus and antispyware? I’m not a new to computers but sometimes all this ballyhoo gets too difficult for me to sort out.. I love Fridays because… Read More »