March 13, 2008
How to fix that gizmo you dropped in the loo
It happens to everyone: one moment, you're talking on your cell or dialing up a tune on your MP3 player, and the next, you're staring down at your gadget in a toilet, a puddle, or worse. If your portable electronic device gets dropped or submerged, is there anything you can do? Fortunately, the answer is yes. Read more »
OEM licenses for XP are nontransferable
My Mar. 6 article on buying systems with XP preinstalled stated that your XP license lets you remove the operating system from one machine and install it on another. But that's only true if you bought a retail copy of Windows XP, not a version that came preinstalled on your PC. Read more »
Hey, buddy, can you cc me on that?
Ctrl+C won't copy. Your Tab button won't tab. Ctrl+A selects absolutely nothing. We've all been there, when the simplest of functions just won't function. But what's really going on when we repeatedly punch that Copy button? Read more »
Using Windows' hidden Disk Cleanup options
You can get rid of more than just a few junk files by using some of Windows' little-known deep-cleaning settings. Most users report recovering dozens to hundreds of megabytes of space, and some users report gaining as much as 13GB of formerly-wasted space! Read more »
StartKey makes your desktop portable
Let's face it, laptops are a mainstay for portable computing — but what if you could have access to your desktop without lugging around a laptop? Microsoft is working on technology that will make that possible in the very near future, and this week I tell you what you can get out of it. Read more »
March patches for Office are 'lambs,' except...
Microsoft released this week four different security bulletins for MS Office, but (with a few exceptions) they seem to shape us as pretty tame updates. The old saying about March weather coming in like a lion, but going out like a lamb, is just about the way this patching month has shaped up. Read more »
