Longtime subscriber Clif of the Clif Notes Newsletter wrote about my Windows 7 installation experience articles in last week’s online issue: Hi Terry, Thanks for the preview of the hassle to come when I move my laptop to win7 from the RC. Hopefully the drivers I have backed up will work. I’m hoping the driver [...]

Recently, one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms. I made a quick check and realized that the free PDF reader Foxit Reader would do this. While Foxit Reader also has a Pro Pack available to add additional functions, the free version does almost everything [...]

Recently, I received two interesting questions from U.K. subscribers. I wrote about and answered the other one, which was about external hard drives, in this week’s email newsletter. In this question, subscriber Robin wrote about problems she is having with her broadband connection… Hi Terry I have a stand alone desktop computer with a Tiscali.co.uk [...]

Sherrill Kerbaugh wrote about a major problemm she and her husband were having on both of their computers: Hi, Terry… We have a major problem…. My husband has been unable to delete daily e-mails for a few weeks now….we can’t figure out what in the world is wrong!?!?!?! Now, all of a sudden I can’t [...]

Subscriber Cary wrote with questions about project common to many people: I’m starting a little project to record about 100 vinyl LPs to mp3s on my hard drive. I\’m looking for free software that will let me record a line-in source. I\’ve heard that Audacity is very good, but one critical feature I want is [...]

Microsoft built a lot of automatic capabilities into Microsoft Word. By default, it checks your spelling as you type and marks misspellings as it finds them. You can even set Word to auto-correct your spelling for specific typing errors you normally have. Word also will automatically create bulleted lists. All you have to do is [...]

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One of the neat features of Windows is the drag-and-drop system, where you can use the mouse to drag an icon (or a file name in Windows Explorer), over a target icon — and drop the dragged icon on target icon. When you do that, many Windows programs will start and do whatever they do [...]

Once upon a time, Netscape was THE Internet web browser — and it was a commercial product. Then, along came the big bad wolf. He dreamed of world (wide web) conquest and so he wrote his own web browser; then, he gave it away with the operating system he sold. It was bad, but it [...]

In my online computer tips newsletter, I wrote several articles about my new Cingular 8525 smartphone. First, what is a “smartphone?” It’s a combination of a cellphone and a personal digital assistant – a PDA. I this case, I bought the Cingular 8525, which is Cingular’s latest and greatest model smartphone. It runs Windows Mobile [...]