Getting Along With Your Computer
XP Your Way
So you’re new to Windows XP? Or, maybe you’ve been working with Windows XP long enough to find some really confusing and annoying things you’d like to...
More Outlook Express Tips
Last week’s column led to more questions about Outlook Express. Now that you know how to create new folders and move messages to them, it should be easy to...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Keeping Email Under Control By Cate Eales Overflowing Inbox? If your email program takes a long time to start up, maybe it’s those 1,827 messages in your...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Happy Holidays By Cate Eales The holiday season is often about family visits. The post-holiday season for me is often about repairing someone’s computer that...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Missing In Action By Cate Eales Last week we talked about how to recover a missing Taskbar. This resulted in a flurry of correspondence asking about how to...
Getting Along With Your Computer
The Task At Hand - By Cate Eales With every version of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows XP, you have a Taskbar on your desktop. The Taskbar is where you’ll...
Getting Along With Your Computer
PDF It! By Cate Eales Remember when “FedEx” became a verb? Suddenly one day, everyone began saying, “FedEx it to Head Office.” Well, “PDF it” has...
Getting Along With Your Computer
What’s New? What’s Next? By Cate Eales We’ve talked before about securing your computer and keeping it secure. One thing Windows XP users should be doing...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Fun and Games By Cate Eales I confess. When I worked in the corporate world, I spent lots of time on conference calls, and they didn’t always have my complete...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Attach This! By Cate Eales The first email in history was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 from one computer to another right next to it. The contents of the email...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Won’t Get Fooled Again By Cate Eales Have you received an email warning of some dire computer-related event, describing a horrible illness or child abduction,...
Getting Along With Your Computer
What’s for Dinner? - By Cate Eales Some people are fortunate enough to have several generations’ worth of recipes that have been passed down to them. Others...
Getting Along With Your Computer
A Little Bit of This A Little Bit of That By Cate Eales Here are a few tips that might help you get along better with your computer. None of them warrants a...
Getting Along With Your Computer
More of your email - By Cate Eales Thank you once again to everyone who contacted me with questions. They are all good questions, and every so often I batch...
Getting Along With Your Computer
Google It! - By Cate Eales Most of us have used the Google search engine find something or someone, but there are many other tricks you can do with Google....
Real Life Internet Solutions
Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word By Cate Eales No question about it, Microsoft Word has become the standard-issue word processing software for Windows...
Getting Along With Your Computer
What the heck is a podcast, anyway? - By Cate Eales Has everybody been listening to the CBC podcasts from the picket lines? I’m listening to today’s podcast...
Real Life Internet Solutions
Cate’s In Box By Cate Eales Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to email with comments and questions. Please keep them coming! Here’s a sample from...
Real Life Internet Solutions
Submitted by Cate Eales - Share Your Photos With Friends, Family, and the World! Digital cameras now outsell film cameras. That suggests that there are lots of...
Real Life Internet Solutions
Submitted by Cate Eales - Passwords In earlier columns we discussed several easy-to-use utilities to safeguard your computer from outsiders. (If you missed...