We all know that I do pretty much everything from the home PC. Now I'm a fairly healthy fifty, but I got thinking the other day that computer shopping is just the ideal solution for the elderly. What do elderly people really need? Better security and an easy safe way to do things. Enter the PC.. Nearly any older person can use the computer. (more...)... more.

How utterly annoying is it when something works one minute and the next minute it just won't. I've run into this time and time again, and my best advice to anyone, novice or experienced user is to back up before you change up. That includes even altering the most unlikely thing, because it can, and will cause problems. My most recent experience was with Twitter Tweet Deck, which played a few... more.

Okay so you've clicked on something that swapped out the default search engine in Firefox. How annoying IS it when small things change on your just gotten it perfect browser. It's even more annoying when some company or web site does it without so much as a by your leave, leaving you to try to figure out how to fix it. You can change the default search engine in Firefox back  to what it was quite... more.

Certain programs, such as Windows Media player and others, will cache the information that you use, downloaded files, file names, sizes and so on, so that the next time you open it, its a smoother process and can be accomplished more easily. ... more.

There are virtually millions of graphics and photos on the internet that are beautiful beyond compare. Go to any travel or nature site and you're going to find photos of your favorite animals, places or places you've never been. It's easy to use one of those photos as your Desktop background, which is the image that shows up on your computer before you have opened any windows or used any p... more.

For many of you, the reason that you got your computer was communication. Not just with the internet but through email to family and friends who live further away than you care to send photos and other media. To do that you need to attach a file to your email. With digital photos or scanners able to be put on your computer so easily, it becomes easier to send them through email, where they arri... more.

You've heard it a thousand times and if you continue to buy computers and to use them, you're going to hear it a thousand more. "Why would you buy one of those things. In a year it will be obsolete" So, is your computer going to be obsolete in a year? The answer is a definitive.. WHO KNOWS? Obsolete is such a relative term. If what you really want to know is, after a year, will your co... more.

First things first. Many of us use a password on our computers. I personally don't but for the most part, the world wants their "stuff" secure. If you add a password, particularly in Windows XP, which is what a vast portion of us are using today, and you forgot your windows password, unless you've taken the time to create a password reset disk, you're pretty much done for. The only real way to ge... more.