James Coates

A Vietnam-era journalism legend comes to mind with the arrival of Adobe's Photoshop CS2 software. Horst Faas, the Pulitzer winning photo chief for the Associated Press in Saigon, would persuade...

Q. I appreciate your insights and tips, and I've come across one for you that simply stumps me. The My Favorites list in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser is...

Q. Whenever I send my resume to people who ask that it be in the Microsoft Word format it looks fine on my screen but it is badly flawed on...

The release Friday of Mac OS 10.4, the operating system also known as Tiger, by Apple Computer Inc. should be noted ruefully by the Windows majority. It is impossible not...

Dr. DivX Video Encoder $29.99, DivX Inc. DivX.com Although this video-recording and file-conversion software enjoys a large audience among dedicated PC moviemakers, it remains a low-cost and powerful tool for...

Q. I made the Windows Fax and Picture viewer my default for opening my e-mail attachments. It doesn't do the job and I want to change the viewer to another....

Q. This blog entry was written by a person familiar with the work of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft. He goes into details as to why IE doesn't always...

With proms and graduations everywhere, it's inkjet season. Digital snapshots may have overtaken old-fashioned chemicals, but they can't be shared properly unless they're on paper. And that means a lot...

Q. I would like to catch a one-hour radio program in my computer or on a CD for later listening. It's a station out of California (I'm in Wilmette) that...

Q. We have lost the sound on our Dell Windows XP computer--startup sounds, music, the "You've Got Mail" guy on AOL--all have gone away. The strange thing is that I...