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The Home Office

The Hartford Courant ran a story this morning called, The Home Office, by Rebecca Reisner. I was pleased to be able to spend an hour on the phone with her to offer my thoughts. Since I have been spending most of my waking hours in my home office for some years I have a lot […]

Outlook Again

I have received a flood of email from readers about my Outlook backup dilemma. Most of them were sympathizers who have the same frustration. Some offered solutions. I have tried some of them and found none that give me confidence that I have really backed up the very latest information in both the MS Outlook […]

How Is Your Outlook?

I have written quite a bit about how difficult it is to use some web sites. I’ll pause on that for the moment to comment about Microsoft Outlook. I won’t say anything about Outlook Express — the shortcomings there are well known. Outlook is supposed to be much more “industrial strength”. I am somewhat spoiled […]

Linux In The Kitchen

The pace of Linux in personal digital assistants will likely begin to accelerate. The Sharp Zaurus is already available and users are enthusiastic. Corporate buyers may be also. In addition to the obvious virtures of Linux, a more subtle attraction is that a Linux PDA can run Java applications and Java is quite good for […]

Lindows – part 1

I just re-booted Windows XP Professional for the third time this weekend. The power of being able to run a dozen applications at once is nice, but having to shut them all down (sometimes by having to turn off the power) and then start them all again is frustrating. I recently bought a Lindows computer […]