| Date |
Content |
| Jun 5/97 |
Canadian first quarter sales figures, PC World reliability and service
survey, DEC/Intel lawsuits, IBM Ambra Ispirati |
| Jun 12/97 |
Lies, damned lies and marketing - the "16x" CD-ROM drive scam |
| Jun 19/97 |
Cleaning up your hard drive - part 1 |
| Jun 26/97 |
Cleaning up your hard drive - part 2 |
| Jul 3/97 |
Reader mail (more on clearing web caches, changing windows wallpaper and
logo screens). |
| Jul 10/97 |
Let the Windows 98 hype begin; Mars attacked |
| Jul 17/97 |
Section Front - Upgrading your PC |
| Jul 24/97 |
Press 1 for giggles, 2 for snickers, 3 for outright laughter |
| Jul 31/97 |
Cookie update |
| Aug 7/97 |
IE4 blocks cookies; more on upgrading; "Triton" just will not
die; NSC buys Cyrix |
| Aug 14/97 |
Apple puts the bite on Microsoft |
| Aug 21/97 |
Column rejected. But you can read what was submitted here. |
| Aug 28/97 |
Web browser wars, round 4 - Netscape Communicator 4 |
| Sep 4/97 |
Web browsers wars, round 4 - Internet Explorer 4 |
| Sep 11/97 |
Oops, now how the heck did that get in there? |
| Sep 18/97 |
Section Front: Fall computer lineup, glossary additions, chipset primer. |
| Sep 18/97 |
Mobile Solutions supplement - Fall notebook lineup, gadgets for road
warriors, Toshiba Libretto review, notebook usage sidebar. |
| Sep 25/97 |
How dare you say my computer is trailing edge?!!! |
| Oct 2/97 |
Spam - part 1 - the problem |
| Oct. 9/97 |
Spam - part 2 - Filters as a solution |
| Oct 16/97 |
Spam followup |
| Oct 23/97 |
No column in the Star, but you can read what didn't run - Phooey on Lotus
. . . |
| Oct 30/97 |
Internet Explorer installation problems not helped by broken links at
Microsoft's Website and errors in tech support |
| Oct. 30/97 (b) |
The column that didn't run |
| Nov 6/97 |
Section front - buying a budget computer |
| Nov 13/97 |
Xerox multifunction printers |
| Nov. 20/97 |
Reader Mail |
| Nov. 27/97 |
You are what you buy |
| Nov. 27/97 |
Computer Buyer's Guide -
1997 Update |
| Dec 4/97 |
Section Front: Budget Scanners |
| Dec. 11/97 |
Christmas Gift Guide |
| Dec. 18/97 |
WordPerfect Suite 8 - not ready for prime time |
| Dec. 25/97 |
No column today (I get a holiday) - Merry Christmas! |
| Jan 1/98 |
First column of the new year - predictions and look back |
| Jan 8/98 |
CorelDRAW 8 Suite - Review |
| Jan 15/98 |
Reader Mail Contest - Win a copy of How to Avoid
Buying a New Computer |
| Jan 22/98 |
Continuous Speech Recognition not ready for prime time |
| Jan 29/98 |
Back to Basics - common computer myths |
| Feb 5/98 |
New PC processors - Why they're not faster |
| Feb 12/98 |
Partitioning and FAT - part 1 |
| Feb 19/98 |
Reader Mail (Partitioning and FAT - part 2) |
| Feb 26/98 |
Section Front - Viruses (part 1) - also includes part 2 run on March 5 |
| Mar 5/98 |
Viruses, Part 2 - combined with part 1 above |
| Mar 12/98 |
Celeron - Intel's new name for Pentium II Lite |
| Mar 19/98 |
Reader Mail: recycling old computer diskettes, the effect of phone lines
on modem speeds, and upgrading an old 486 |
| Mar 26/98 |
Review: Aptiva E26. Tip of the week: memory leaks |
| Apr 2/98 |
Letters: followups to March 19 desktop tip |
| Apr 9/98 |
How to Break in your new computer (instead of simply breaking it) |
| Apr 16/98 |
Publisher 98 – Not too bad! |
| Apr 23/98 |
Section Front: External storage |
| Apr 30/98 |
April mailbag: WinKey shortcuts, hang on exit, right mouse-button tricks |
| May 7/98 |
Back to Basics - Memory (you can have too much!) |
| May / 98 |
Mobile Solutions: Notebook and Palmtop computing update, Spring, 98 |
| May 14/98 |
Back to Basics, Memory part 2 |
| May 21/98 |
Back to Basics, Memory part 3 |
| May 28/98 |
Section Front: Shareware |
| Jun 4/98 |
June mailbag, memory, lost passwords |
| Jun 11/98 |
Corel Ventura Publisher 8 - Review |
| Jun 18/98 |
No column this week |
| Jun 25/98 |
Section Front: Windows 98 – Finally! |
| Jul 2/98 |
New Sony Notebook |
| Jul 9/98 |
July mailbag - part 1 |
| Jul 16.98 |
July mailbag - part 2 |
| Jul 23/98 |
Back to Basics: Monitors - part 1 of 3 |
| Jul 30/98 |
Back to Basics: Monitors - part 2 of 3 |
| Aug 6/98 |
Back to Basics: Monitors - part 3 of 3 |
| Aug 13/98 |
August '98 mailbag |
| Aug 20/98 |
No column this week |
| Aug 27/98 |
Section front: Will the Millennium Bug Byte
You? |
| Sep 3/98 |
The Blue Screen of Death |
| Sep 10/98 |
Blue Screen of Death part 2 |
| Sep 17/98 |
September mailbag |
| Sep 24/98 |
Monitors, extra: LCD Flat panel technology explained |
| Oct 1/98 |
10 ways to love your computer (giggle) |
| Oct 8/98 |
Confessions of a hardware junkie (upgrade woes) |
| Oct 15/98 |
No column this week |
| Oct 22/98 |
Section Front: Fall Fashion Forecast |
| Oct 29/98 |
Hallowe'en specail: PC Prices are very Scaaary! |
| Nov 5/98 |
November Mailbag; USB upgrade boards |
| Nov 12/98 |
Section Front: Upgrade or Replace? |
| Nov 19/98 |
Planning upgrades Before you buy |
| Nov 26/98 |
Bogus software claims got you down? |
| Nov 26/98 |
Computer Buyer's
Guide -- 1998 edition |
| Note: during December, a couple of articles,
written originally for the Digital Solutions supllment above, were converted to columns
instead and frankly, I'm not precisely sure when they ran. Please read the content below
to find the one you want. |
| Dec 5/98 |
ViaVoice 98 - Review |
| Dec 12/98 |
1998 Fall Notebook Market Roundup |
| Dec 19/98 |
Games retailers play |
| Dec 26/98 |
Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office? |
| Okay, we're back on track now...the dates
below should be accurate. |
| Jan 7/99 |
1998 wrapup, 1999 predictions |
| Jan 14/99 |
Section Front: New computer user's survival guide |
| Jan 21/99 |
New Celerons, digital pens |
| Jan 28/99 |
First mailbag of 1999, seniors web sites, fonts missing, file window
frolics, when to upgrade or replace your PC |
| Feb 4/99 |
New processors: Pentium III and mobile Celeron |
| Feb 11/99 |
Is the Pentium III a threat to privacy? |
| Feb 18/99 |
PC '99 Design Guide; built-in PC UPS |
| Feb 25/99 |
2010 Update (new toys for the future) |
| Mar. 4/99 |
March 99 mailbag |
| Mar 11/99 |
Section Front: Overclocking overview |
| Mar 18/99 |
Take the High Tech IT IQ test |
| Mar 25/99 |
Y2.038K Bug, 3 monkeys |
| April 1/99 |
AI Breakthrough |
| April 8/99 |
Section Front: Spring tuneup |
| April 15/99 |
(coming soon) |
