James Coates

OK, boys and girls, it's time to explain why Google gets all of the attention while its main competitor, the Yahoo advertising supported Web search engine, doesn't. Yahoo is a...

Q. When I go to a number of online news sites, some video boxes come up with a black box containing the QuickTime Q and a question mark instead of...

Americans now buy more laptops than desktops, and these portables increasingly take on features and powers well beyond what most folks imagine when visualizing a portable. Ever more portables come...

Q. My Toshiba laptop worked fine until I inserted a Kodak CD with photographs on it. Now the laptop's slot for memory cards doesn't work and I get told that...

When I was starting college in 1961, one of the hottest areas of study was called Kremlinology--trying to figure out what the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics planned for us...

Q. Somehow, the Add or Remove Software icon is missing in action from my control panel and absent that, I cannot think of any way to properly remove software. Any...

We computer hobbyists, as well as small-business owners, have come a mighty long way from the humble days just a decade ago when a mere half dozen floppy disks held...

Q. You wrote recently about how to save the address book in Microsoft Outlook Express. This is something I've been quite concerned about so I was very interested in the...

Back in the mid-1990s when the mountains were taller and it was still OK to call somebody a liberal, your humble correspondent met at the corner of State and Madison...

Q. When I insert a DVD or CD in one of the drives on my computer, they don't play. They show up in My Computer as being loaded but won't...