It is highly unlikely that anyone that is 30 years of age or younger now as I write this in 2012 has ever seen much less actually used Microsoft Word 6.0. Word 6 was the last version that worked in the Microsoft Windows 3.1 environment; it was released in 1993, and this is the version that really put Word "on the map", so to speak. Said another way,...

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make our digital lives a whole lot easier, and the Mailto: extension for Google Chrome is definitely one of them. Situation: You go to a web site where there’s a clickable email address. You click it, and what happens is that a mail program (Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.)...

A quick scan at the hits-per-day rating over a DistroWatch reveals Mint keeps climbing while Ubuntu keeps falling:Said honestly, I can’t say I’m surprised. In the Linux community there’s been quite a lot of backlash over the default Unity interface that was released in June 2010. And when I say “backlash”, I’m not putting...

So, you’ve got yourself a brand new, shiny computer. Trouble is, your whole desktop looks a little…impersonal. You’re sitting there thinking to yourself, “high time I changed this.” Trouble is, you’re not sure how to go about doing so. Have no fear- it’s actually an incredibly simple process. Step 1- Access the...

Warren writes: Just curious to know if anyone has tried waterfox web browser. It’s for 64 bit systems and is from mozilla. Installed it a couple days ago and while I have no tools to benchmark it, seems faster than the others with no compatibility issues with any site. Not easy to find on mozilla’s site but maybe someone could give it a spin and see...

Instant messaging using a real client is definitely on the rebound these days because it’s one of those things that people really enjoy using. Those who remember how popular it used to be do miss it, and the younger generation also appreciates IM as well. These days, no IM client is worth using unless it connects to Facebook, and AIM was one of the first...

When most people hear "flag" concerning email, they mistakenly think that means "mark as spam" all the time, and that’s incorrect. Email flagging has been around more or less for as long as email has existed. It’s a special mark you can place on any message so that you can quickly retrieve it later. Small example: An email comes...

Back in 2007, Mozilla released Weave which was then rebranded as Firefox Sync. In Firefox, this is a cloud service that can store your bookmarks, passwords, browser history and so on (you choose what you want to store out there). Some of you may have tried Firefox Sync and decided to stop using it in favor of something else like LastPass or Xmarks. Or maybe you...

Kenny writes: How can I move/remove data/pictures/emails from a WinMe PC to a Win 7 PC using either a wired network, USB or Ethernet cable? I have been unable to network the WinMe to the Win7 PC. This is a bit of an odd one, because what Kenny is attempting to do is connect an MS-DOS based Windows (WinME was the final Windows using MS-DOS as the actual OS) over...

At this point, those of you who don’t have a great deal of technical knowledge are probably wondering “What exactly is a non-Unicode Application, and why would I want to run it?” A Non-Unicode application is, essentially, any program that’s not written in the default language of the Windows platform. That’s a horrifically simplified...