So you want to get your own personalized website address? Or, maybe you just want to get a personalized email address for yourself or your business. After all, it doesn’t look too professional if your company name is “Global Industries Unlimited” and your email address is obviously provided by one of the many companies that gives a free email...

Ask any three “techies” what Microsoft’s new operating system (Vista) will be like, and you’ll likely get three separate answers. One might tell you it is a major overhaul of Windows, like Windows 95 was. A second may tell you it was going to be a major overhaul, but many of the “cool” features have been dropped. A third...

Many of us have older computers stilting around that we don’t know what to do with – or at least enough leftover components to assemble a “basic” computer. And yet such computers can be used for many interesting projects. Even an older computer can be used. Even with only DOS and BASIC on your computer, the possibilities can be almost...

If you’re going to be building computers, adding devices to your computer, altering BIOS settings, or just installing and deleting programs on your computer, then you’ll want to learn the basics of troubleshooting. You might notice that I didn’t say computer troubleshooting. That is because troubleshooting is an independent skill. I learned to...

One of the early GUI operating systems for the PC, that is still being developed today, is GEM. GEM is an operating system that was originally created by Digital Research in the early 1980s. GEM was described as providing a Mac like GUI for the PC – long before Microsoft Windows 3.1 or 95. Today GEM continues to be developed as FreeGEM and old and new versions...