Have you ever received an email that had a broken link? Sometimes, the length of a URL is so long, or it’s at the “wrong point” in a sentence such that the email program breaks the URL — and wraps part of it onto the next line of the email. If we’re sending the email [...]

Almost all purchased programs come with their own unique icons. Some are pretty or cute, while others are ugly. If you create your own programs or Command files (.cmd) to run several commands, you’ll end up with a plain, unattractive default Windows icon for that file type. However, you can change the icon to any [...]

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten on the Firefox versus Internet Explorer subject in my newsletter. For a while last year, I beat it to death… But, recently, in responding to a reader’s question, I mentioned that I recommended Firefox over IE for web browsing. His response was “You Do?” The [...]

Recently, my HOWTO article was “Adding a SaveAs Button to Work/Excel/Powerpoint. This week, we’ll add another button that I find very useful — the Print To button. Why do I want to add a “Print To” button to Word (or Excel or Powerpoint? In part, it is because I have three printers that I use [...]

OpenOffice.org is a free software office suite, available from the website of the same name. Most people just shorten the name to “OpenOffice,” but the “.org” is really part of the software’s name. But, a lot of people like to drop the “.org” and refer to the free suite as OpenOffice. Why is that part [...]

If you’re still using dialup Internet access for use from home, you should start thinking about “broadband”. What’s broadband? That’s the term for getting your Internet access via a cable or DSL connection, or even a fiber-optic connection if that’s available to you. Ads by Terry Slow PC? Clean It. Tune Up Your PC with [...]

The Picasa photo editor and organizer will surprise you with its unique interface and its amazing power. With Picasa, you can easily edit photos with basic fixes, as well as adding any of 12 lighting and color effects. You can organize your photos, write captions on them, and even order prints. One way you can [...]

As I wrote in one of my weekly newsletters, I’de been trying the 30-day free trial of GoToMyPC. I’m very impressed with this service and its capabilities. GoToMyPC is designed to allow a PC user to access his computer remotely. This user might be a salesman, a tech support person, a business man who left [...]

One of my forum readers in my Windows XP /2000/etc forum (which are now shut down thanks to too many spam posts) wrote about a problem he was having. He wrote: IE6 SP1 browser..links take long time to download My computer contains: Athlon 3200gb, 1 gig Ram, I have WinXP SP2 Home, and IE 6 [...]

Recently, I needed to rename several folders of files. They were all HTML files for web sites with the extension “.html”, which means that they are static HTML files — they don’t change when they’re called. I wanted them to be “.php” files so that I could make file maintenance easier. This way, I can [...]