Since the first public betas of Windows 8 appeared last year, I have really made a huge effort to find some comfort in the new interface. Right, it used to be Metro, but when that ended up being the name of a German supermarket chain, Microsoft opted for “Modern UI.” I suppose that could change […]

In the best of times, GoDaddy can be a controversial company. And, by the way, that name has nothing to do with the function, which is Internet related. In fact, founder Bob Parsons once told my radio audience that they were looking for an available name to register, and found that GoDaddy wasn’t being used, […]

When I read that Yahoo! had just completed a major update to its online email system, I suddenly realized that I still had such an account; in fact, I’ve had one for years, although I rarely use it. Maybe that’s because I never regarded it as an essential part of my online communications. It’s not […]

There’s an article this week from PCWorld.com, which I shall not link, claiming to offer some simple tweaks to let you use an iPad as your main portable personal computer. While the effort is laudable, the results are so simplistic and lacking in useful information you almost believe it was ghost written by Consumer Reports […]