MAGIC FINGERS

Those little flash memory drives about the size of a finger have become so common they’re often used as promotional gifts by companies,… Read more

A REALLY THIN PHONE

Kensington has a new phone card for Windows laptop users. Its not a card that gives you credit for a certain number of minutes on the phone, it’s a… Read more

PAY FOR VIEW

Amazon has started a program for people with free web sites to earn back a little of their costs. By “free” we mean the kind of sites that carry… Read more

INTERNUTS

SciAm.com/podcast is a site run by Scientific American magazine. Along with a lot of other information they carry audio podcasts describing recent… Read more

THE PAST IS STILL THERE

If your computer is getting slower, one of the things that helps is to shut down programs running in the background. We use TUT, (“The… Read more

TECH SUPPORT

Since we’re on this retro trip right now, let’s revisit a tech support service we wrote about several months ago. We liked the test drive so… Read more

A COMPACT SCANNER

Visioneer has introduced the latest and best ever in its long series of page scanners. It is sleek, efficient and can reproduce… Read more

BETTING ON A WINNER

Have you ever heard a new singer, seen a new actor, read a new book, etc., and said to yourself: “If I were a gambler, I would bet that this is… Read more

A SLIMMER POWERPOINT

We reduced a 21 megabyte PowerPoint presentation on travel to Guatemala to 1 megabyte by using a Windows utility called PPTminimizer. That’s a 96… Read more

INTERNUTS

·  Eons.com describes itself as a web site for those “on the flip side of 50.” We especially like the travel section, which featured the new… Read more