Do you remember that commercial where the mechanic says to the car owner; – Well, your bindle grinder needs to be replaced and your widget pump is dead? That, of course, was techno-babble in its purest form. Which takes directly to widgets. No, they are not car parts. With the advent and shift to Web […]
Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, has finally launched. So, as Microsoft’s ads promise, does “the Wow start now”? Or is it a cow? Microsoft certainly pulled one out of the hat here. Last June, when it released Vista Beta 2, it looked as if Vista was going to be a disaster. And even when […]
Nobody, not even his wife Melinda, knows for sure what drives Bill Gates. He doesn’t know it himself. Andy Walker does not pretend to know, either. What he does know is how to test-drive software to perfect exhaustion, trying tricks not even the most sophisticated programmers could think of when they had been writing the […]
It happens to almost all of us sooner or later: You realize that the computer you love just isn’t what it used to be. It’s not that old but it’s sluggish, it’s slow, it seems… well, tired. You’ve run anti-virus and anti-spyware checks and everything’s fine, but it’s still dragging its feet. What could be […]
Then there’s the Budweiser screensaver warning – yes, another hoax. These types of e–mail “chain letters” are a plague to e–mail users because they waste time or cause unnecessary panic. The truth is that they are hoaxes. But how do you know for sure? By applying a little bit of knowledge and common sense. Here […]