by Joe Kraynak | Sep 27, 2008 | Printers
One of the most common problems that beginning computer users have is dealing with the Windows print queue. They’ll click the Print button and if the printer doesn’t spit out a page immediately, they’ll click the button again and again. When the...
by Joe Kraynak | Sep 3, 2008 | Google, Internet Explorer
For many years, I’ve been convinced that Microsoft had won the war of the Web browsers with its Internet Explorer. Sure, a handful of people use Safari or Mozilla Firefox, or some other browser, but according to Net Applications, Internet Explorer accounts for about...
by Joe Kraynak | Aug 22, 2008 | Windows, Windows Vista
When I was writing Deconstructing Golden Tee LIVE, I interviewed several game designers who all told me the same thing – users go through a period during which they resist change before they embrace it. I’m wondering whether the same thing is occurring with Windows...
by Joe Kraynak | Jul 29, 2008 | Slide Show, Windows
My daughter returned home from a Spanish class trip to Costa Rica with over 250 photos on our neighbor’s new digital camera – Olympus Stylus 790SW 7.1MP Waterproof Digital Camera with Dual Image Stabilized 3x Optical Zoom. We downloaded them to her computer and...
by Joe Kraynak | Jul 25, 2008 | Amazon.com
If you have a Website or blog that attracts a fair amount of traffic, you can earn money on it by selling merchandise through the Amazon Associates program. Here’s how it works: Go to the Join Associates page and click the Apply Now button. Follow the...
by Joe Kraynak | Jun 21, 2008 | Email, Outlook Express
I have several years’ worth of email gunking up Outlook Express, but I’m afraid that as soon as I delete it, I’ll need one of those messages. Outlook Express contains an option to Export messages, but then I can’t figure out where the exported messages are stored or...
by Joe Kraynak | May 28, 2008 | Troubleshooting, Windows Vista
On March 18, 2008, Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Unless you disabled Automatic Updates in your version of Windows Vista, it is automatically set up to download and install important updates, so Service Pack 1 already should be installed on your...
by Joe Kraynak | May 27, 2008 | Troubleshooting, Windows
Whenever I encounter a problem in Microsoft Windows, the first place I turn to is Microsoft’s Knowledge Base – an incredible resource for articles on troubleshooting and correcting problems in Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft programs. To access the Knowledge...
by Joe Kraynak | May 21, 2008 | Parenting
If you’re a parent, you probably want your kids to have access to all the good content the Internet has to offer but none of the bad content. Unfortunately, achieving that goal is nearly impossible, especially if all you have to work with is Internet...
by Joe Kraynak | Apr 29, 2008 | Microsoft Office
For old-school Microsoft Office users like me, upgrading from Office 2003 to 2007 was a traumatic experience. Microsoft decided to take away our menus and replace them with incomprehensible ribbons – essentially task-based toolbars. It took me 10 minutes to...
