James Coates

1. WRITER'S TWIST The Fujitsu LifeBook 4000 is a featherweight of a laptop with a screen that turns around and lies flat like a legal tablet. I jot notes using...

Q. All of a sudden I cannot open JPG photograph attachments on e-mails I receive. I get a box that says, "This file does not have a program associated with...

Q. I have Windows XP home edition on a Dell machine. What is the easiest way to shrink a jpg photo for e-mailing once I get it downloaded into the...

Newspaper writers learn by bitter experience that mixing apples and oranges might work in a fruit salad, but combining topics can wreak havoc in stories and columns. It's best to...

Q. When I print a displayed page from the Internet I lose a half-inch or so of the text from the right side. I still have a margin on the...

Among the things I love (and hate) about this job is the endless scrum among computer users over Mac vs. PC. Should one pledge loyalty to Steve Jobs at Apple...

Q. My question is about the Microsoft Word software that came with my computer. Whenever I use my word processor, it capitalizes my beginning sentence even when I don't want...

The week's obsession here in the mad columnist's computer lab has been reviewing the new Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite 8.0. This reviewer nearly went into sensory overload in the...

Q. I am looking to rip my vinyl LPs into digital music files and was wondering if you could recommend software to do this job. I have a turntable that...

Amazon.com startled the publishing industry last week in a way that made this book-reading propeller head's heart go pitter-pat. The online megastore's CEO Jeff Bezos said he plans to one-up...