James Coates

Q. I am looking for a program that will allow me to put out an electronic newsletter to be sent by e-mail. I want something easy to use, above all....

Internet megaliths Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. blazed forth over the past few days vowing to change The World As We Know It with book and movie download schemes for...

Q. Your recent Binary Beat column about hard-drive-space tracking software WinDirStat sounded really great, and the sample screen shots at the site made me want it even more. But try...

Q. I am a computer beginner and have a PC that I fear is going to crash soon. Is there any way to back up all the icon info that...

OK kiddies, it's the last weekend of summer downtime and we need something to cheer us up. And among the most cheerful things about using personal computers is finding free...

Q. I have a number of family DVDs that I want to edit down to a single DVD with titles and possibly lighten some of the footage, if that is...

Getting an early look at the brand new HD DVD movie players from Toshiba last week stands out as one of the best perks this perk-blessed technology reviewer has enjoyed...

Q. We have a 2-year-old Dell laptop that runs a bit slow and has plenty of problems, but the most irritating, today at least, is the following: If I open...

It strikes your humble correspondent as silly when a reviewer goes out and finds something that his readers never heard of and then tells them what's wrong with it. Today,...

Q. I used to be able to download animated elements of e-mails and Web sites by right-clicking on the item and selecting "Save As." The files were usually GIF files,...