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Bury Clippy forever review
Reviews How can I get rid of him for good, and how can I get Office XP to deliver help the way I want it? With a bit of tweaking, however, you can train Office XP’s help to do what you want. When someone told me that Clippy (Microsoft's relentlessly...
[July 8, 2002, 10:06]
Contribute 2.0 review
Reviews The screen includes three panes that list pages being viewed or edited and a persistent help section (labelled How Do I). In our tests, clicks in the How Do I section or on page elements, even Toolbar items, resulted in a noticeable lag that...
[August 28, 2003, 7:47]
Protect yourself against hackers review
Reviews What can I do? If you're confident that your virus-scanning software will catch everything, you can disable this security feature -- just download the free Outlook 2002 Attachment Security Tool 1.1. It seems as though every day I read about...
[July 8, 2002, 9:59]
Longhorn goes beyond search review
Reviews I don't think you can work effectively with a computer without a desktop search application. What I find most interesting is how Longhorn pulls together many different kinds of searching and organising schemes.
[June 6, 2005, 9:00]
Five things you'll love (and hate) about Windows Vista review
Reviews If you're mainly interested in what's good with the new operating system, move to the previous page, where you can learn more about features I can't live without. The decision for some individuals and small businesses to upgrade to Microsoft...
[June 16, 2006, 9:35]
Firefox 3.5: a first look review
Reviews I'm not sure how connected Firefox's development of Private Browsing is to this next feature, but I can see far more users gaining traction from having the fine, granular control of browsing tracks that's now available in v3.5.
[July 1, 2009, 10:25]
Who's in charge -- you or your mouse? review
Reviews This one applies only to IBM ThinkPads, but I am surprised by how many people who own these machines don't know it: Press Fn+PgUp to turn on the little keyboard light. There's probably a word for the syndrome I have.
[August 24, 2004, 17:00]
Orange SPV review
Reviews True, you can get most of these features in a device like the Jornada 928 WDA, which runs Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition. Not only do I now have my entire Outlook phone list easily accessible in my phone, but I also have my Outlook diary and my email.
[October 30, 2002, 11:35]
Google Apps for Your Domain review
Reviews As of this writing, the domain site www.demoarigato.com isn't calling up the Google page I created using the product -- it can take up to two days for domain maps to update across the Internet. For example, I set up a fictitious company, DemoArigato.
[August 29, 2006, 9:15]
Email acrobatics: juggling multiple addresses review
Reviews My favourite part about setting up universal forwarding is that I can give out any mail address at my domain, depending on the impression I'm trying to give. If I'm trying to impress, I can call myself ceo@myfavoritedomain.com.
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
The Geek Atlas review
Reviews I can't bring myself to do that here, due both to the author being frank about having to leave stuff out — those powers of two don't leave much wiggle room — and to there being a web site where you can go and discuss the next edition at your leisure.
[September 1, 2009, 8:55]
Your biggest fan review
Reviews When I got around to building a computer recently, I was surprised how much time I spent dealing with one little factor: cooling. I can't help but think that spending all this time and money on cooling is a little ridiculous.
[September 13, 2004, 13:10]
Desktops for your business review
Reviews But when you're buying PCs for business, the question quickly becomes 'How much can I live without? The components are designed so that you can swap them out quickly and easily. And they can be monitored and managed remotely using included software.
[July 8, 2003, 13:19]
When Web 2.0 fails review
Reviews Last week I wrote about how JavaScript exploits can take advantage of AJAX. This week I want to call attention to the way Web sites themselves can (and should) do more to protect themselves against JavaScript exploits using AJAX bridges to loot...
[August 30, 2006, 9:45]
No escape from lugging a laptop review
Reviews Two years ago I wrote a column called 'How to leave your laptop behind', in which I championed various cool technologies I was using at the time to work productively even when I didn't have my notebook computer with me.
[March 21, 2006, 7:55]
Google Wave: a First Look review
Reviews The Wave team has thought hard about the structure of a conversation, and how this can be replicated online. At I/O, he put it like this: "While email is an incredibly successful protocol, we can use computing advances to do better.
[September 23, 2009, 11:03]
Best Firefox plug-ins for work review
Reviews With this extension, I can see what's in each browser tab I'm using just by hovering over the tabs. So I can get my brain downtime in faster and then get back to work quicker. At least that's how I justify it.
[June 8, 2006, 9:05]
Switching to VoIP review
Reviews It explains the convergence of voice and data, the basics of the older Public-Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) versus new IP telephony, and, of course, goes into the technical details of how VoIP works.
[September 2, 2005, 10:50]
Intel Core 2 Duo preview benchmarks: a different approach review
Reviews I was more interested in how the new Core Technology handled multitasking, so I focused on the E6700 system -- on which Intel installed a few additional applications. So with only a limited time to test, access to someone else's tests and test...
[June 12, 2006, 8:45]
Who needs a word processor? review
Reviews Google has closed new user registration for Writely while it is working out how to scale up the servers to handle Google-level traffic, but all existing users have 50 invitations they can give out. Can a modern computer user survive without an...
[April 26, 2006, 11:00]
