You can almost always depend on loads of Microsoft sycophants extolling the virtues of a new Microsoft product. Sometimes you even get a press release offering some sort of “independent blogger” for an interview. Just recently, for example, a PR agency sent along the name of someone who could tell us all about the then-new […]

The other day, from out of nowhere, comes the first beta of the new open source version of that famed email application, Eudora. In case you tuned in late, the publisher, Qualcomm, best known for for building cell phone chips these days, has given up on this venerable application. The project has been handed off […]

Take a moment to listen to a radio show that provides help to PC users. You’ll hear a litany of problems, and some of the most convoluted solutions imaginable. It can get particularly dicey when the host brings up the infamous Windows Registry. Indeed, when Windows misbehaves, there are seldom easy answers, except for folks […]