James Coates

Streets & Trips 2004 $39.95, Microsoft Corp. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP www.microsoft.com/Streets No matter where you go, as the vaudeville comics used to say, there you are. And few programs can determine...

Q. I read your column every week, and I've written you questions a couple of times in the past that weren't answered. But your answers to other readers' questions were...

Pardon my evangelism, brothers and sisters, but there is a new version of the software that defines my personal computing life, Info Select for Windows. Longtime readers have noted that...

Q. I go to Web sites and I get trapped. The back arrow on my browser and the Backspace key on the computer are disabled. I can't escape! I don't...

Q. I get RFQs (request for quotes) that sometimes have 20 or 30 PDF files attached to a single e-mail message. Right now I click on the icon for each...

I'm from the crowd that thinks hip-hop describes a wrestling move and that Ice T is a beverage that one can get for a 50 Cent piece. I do, of...

Q. A tech person at CompUSA told me that he has heard there is a problem with some labels used to customize DVDs. Apparently, the adhesive penetrates into the DVD...

Q. I want to copy the contacts in Microsoft Outlook on my computer at work onto Outlook on my computer at home. Is there a simple way to do this?...

I'll try not to be an alarmist about this, friends and neighbors, but here's the deal: While America slept, the suits and ties in the recording, film, television and software...

Ad-aware Plus 6 $26.95, from Lavasoft www.lavasoft.de Windows 98/ME/2000/XP This upgraded version to the heavily used Ad-aware freeware program is worth the cost for peace of mind and the freedom...