Selected Articles

You'll find a few articles here that you might not stumble on otherwise. :-)

Recently added

IE7 is released and it's time to decide what you're going to do about upgrading before Microsoft does it for you. :-)

Digital photo ideas.

Firefox extensions can make browsing the Web easier and more fun. It's easy to work with them -- after you learn some of the quirks.

Blogs, podcasts and feeds

Wondering what Internet feeds, RSS or blogs are all about? If you like to keep up with news, sports, technology or a growing number of other topics, they can make your time online much more productive. It's easy to get started.

How to work with old file formats

What can you do when your old files don't work on the new PC you bought because the applications have changed? Take a hard example: The spreadsheets on your old computer were done in Excel, but your new one only has Microsoft Works. What can you do? It may be trivial, or it may be more tedious, but you can usually find a way.

Audio CDs, MP3 files, etc.

You can "rip" audio tracks from your music CDs, convert them to much smaller MP3 files, and burn dozens of them to one CD. Find out how to do it and how to play them. Most newer CD players, including those in cars will now play CDs with MP3 files on them. Of course you can also load MP3s on portable players. [more]

Class topics

Class notes for a class on online security.

Class notes for an introductory level Windows Registry class.

Class notes for the class on "Building a Personal Website".

Printing Web pages (or any other document) in black and white to save ink.

George Jester's presentation on Digital Photo Workflow.

Where to find tutorials about computers and also the Internet.

How to stop Popups