My friend Tim was late to personal computers. In recent years, his WebTV unit handled all his email and Web surfing. However, he didn’t get full-blown a PC right away. He dreaded the task of having to set up what he presumed to be a complicated piece of electronics gear, but finally he decided to […]

This week, while casually surfing the Internet between stints editing my radio shows, I caught a couple of articles speculating about a possible new miniature note-book from Apple. It hearkens back to the PowerBook 2400, which was popular in Japan, but not so popular in the U.S. Now it might make sense from a business […]

The normal way of handling email is pretty basic. Your Mac or PC logs onto your ISP or independent email service, retrieves the messages and logs off. Forgetting the technology behind it, the system seems to work most of the time; that is, until you want to access your account from more than one computer. […]

How many times have you checked available Wi-Fi connections on a note-book, Mac or PC, and found several that weren’t password protected? Now I understand a commercial hot spot, such as T-Mobile, where you can’t actually do anything online without having an active account or ordering up a pass for an hour or a day. […]