On Computers

A cute comic book from the folks at Google Chrome is an online book about the web. The opening page introduces these topics: “What’s a cookie?” “How do I protect myself on the web?” “What happens if a truck runs over my laptop?” The comic book heavily promotes “cloud computing:” having your data, email and apps stored online. That way, if something happens to your computer, you haven’t lost anything important. We think the first few pages of this 61-page book are too techy for anyone but a budding programmer, and aren’t explained that well, but if you flip past anything that bores you, you get good tips. Here’s one: Go to www.whatbrowser.org to explore alternatives to Internet Explorer and […]

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Now you can give a Kindle book to someone who doesn’t have a Kindle e-reader. Kindle books can be read on the iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, Blackberry and Android phone.There are over 750,000 digital books available at Amazon. We’re more likely to use the new gift service, however, for friends who do have Kindles. Before, if you wanted to give a fellow Kindle owner a digital book, you’d be stuck with sending a gift certificate. Now you can click on a Kindle edition and select “Give as a Gift.” Notifications of Kindle book gifts are delivered instantly by e-mail. For more information, go to www.amazon.com/givekindlebooks.

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The web sites that are least likely to have problems like viruses and malware are from the following countries and regions within countries: Japan — .JP; Catalan (spoken in Barcelona, Spain) — .CAT; Croatia — .HR; the Isle of Guernsey (England) — .GG, and Ireland –.IE.

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Task List Guru and SavetheMilk are our two favorite to-do list programs. Both are free.

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Microsoft’s Hotmail has been the most popular online email service for the past 15 years. It has 350 million users and they’re not going anywhere. Microsoft has now added a feature that Google’s Gmail has had for sometime: the ability to use Hotmail without changing your old email address. To the recipient of your message, the email still appears to come from your other email account, if you want to hold on to that. One of the best Hotmail features is its ability to send really large photos – up to ten gigabytes — without adding them an attachment. A small version of each photo appears in the email, and if the recipient wants to see the full picture, they […]

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Two free programs for tracking your email so you know when it’s been read.

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The North Face’s new “Smythe Jacket” and “ETip” gloves make it easier to work your gadgets on a cold day.

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In the next couple of weeks, Kindle owners will be able to lend ebooks to each other. The original owner won’t be able to access their ebook during the lending period, which lasts two weeks. Not all books will be lendable; it’s up to the publisher. That’s a feature that’s already available to owners of the Barnes and Noble ”Nook,” an eReader that just came out in a color version.  At $249, it’s almost twice as much as a Kindle, and is not as easy on the eyes as the so-called e-ink display. But you do get color and can use it for email and surfing the web. See it at barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor. In other news, color “e-ink” ebook readers are […]

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Facebook is coming out with its own email sytem, dubbed a “Gmail Killer,” by Techcrunch. The idea is that they know how to prioritize your mail because they already know so much about you.  Read more about it here.

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Hold down the Windows key and tap the letter “E” to get a list of drives and folders.

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