James Coates

Q. I've been getting port scan attacks (up to three a day) from the same party. It began a few months ago, after I reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled the...

I may be the penultimate propeller head when it comes to googling. I haven't cracked a dictionary in years because it's far easier to just use the Google search engine's...

Q. I first saw posters done in the photo-mosaic fashion (one large picture made up of many smaller ones) more than 10 years ago and was fascinated by it. I...

Q. In my business I send lots of e-mails. Is there an easy way to use some sort of e-mail to tell me when my mail has been opened--sort of...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could tell nagging tech support folks to take a hike and just let all of that e-mail that gets past the spam filters remain...

Q. My son is in basic training and doesn't have time to read newspapers or magazines. Is there an online news summary that I can subscribe to and print out...

Q. For several years I have been driven nuts by the inability to set up a column in a date format and have it print out correctly. If I key...

I'm rooting for the folks at Sun Microsystems Inc., because they sell powerful software at dirt-cheap prices and because they stood up to mighty Microsoft Corp. longer than anybody. This...

It's free, it's chilling and it's a bald-faced sales scheme. Zone Labs Inc., the maker of the ZoneAlarm Pro Internet firewall, now offers a Web site to check your computer...

StarOffice 7 $79.95, applications suite For Windows 98/ME/NT/2000 Sun Microsystems www.sun.com/staroffice If ever there were a bargain for a box of software, it is this Fortune 500 caliber collection of...