James Coates

Q. I am looking for a program that will reduce pictures without destroying the quality? Can you help? Karen [email protected] A. As folks get deeper into sharing photographs as digital...

Editor's note: While Mr. C. enjoys some well-deserved time off, we are reprinting a few frequently asked reader questions. Q. I have a wireless network set up between my laptop...

Editor's note: While Mr. C. enjoys some well-deserved time off, we are reprinting a few frequently-asked reader questions. Q. I have a Dell 8200 Pentium 4, with Windows XP and...

Q. Every day I delete spam. Today it was 66, a record. Yesterday Outlook Express wanted to compress the files. Is this stuff filling up my hard drive? How can...

Once again PalmOne Inc., the maker of hardware for PalmSource operating system-powered personal digital assistants, has pushed the envelope of design and technology. Behold LifeDrive, a hugely enjoyable combo PDA...

Q. I thank the Good Lord and Steve Jobs that I use a Mac each time I see one of your solutions to a Windows problem with advice like "type...

Q. I am interested to learn if it is possible to change the defaults in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets for various settings such as cell size, print margins, numeric rounding and...

What a week it has been for game players, music lovers and others excited about the ever-increasing entertainment opportunities coming out of our tech gear. On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. unveiled...

Q. I enjoyed reading your recent Binary Beat article on the new Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system. I upgraded myself as well, and think it is the best...

Q. I often write in German and occasionally in French and need a way to type umlauts on "a" or "o" or "u" or accents in French. Since both are...