While the number of women who have chosen the sciences for a career over the last two decades has increased, their participation in the engineering and computer sciences sectors has declined, accordin...
I received a cry for help via e-mail from a reader of this column who sounded desperate and thought I was some sort of expert on computers. I'm not. I've had no formal computer training and I'm not qu...
because most of us would rather be out and about when we're not working, rather than fiddling with hieroglyphics on a computer screen.
Friends also might start giving you that blank look when you try ...
Hello again, weekend Webmasters. Last week's column had some tips about getting started on creating basic Internet pages using some free HTML editors without having to go through the hassle of learnin...
So you want to create a personal Internet site so that your family overseas can see some of your photographs or read about the latest gossip on the rock.
Or perhaps you have a small business that does...
I have the usual high-priced software on my computer, but it's the free stuff that really helps make sitting before a screen for long periods a bit more tolerable.
I've just recently tested out Downlo...
The Denver-based Privacy Foundation has issued a warning against what is being called "e-mail wiretapping'', a method of surveillance which allows people who sent you an e-mail to secretly receive cop...
Don't weep now, but Cambridge University's famous Trojan Room coffee pot webcam is going offline. The university's computer laboratory is moving to a new building to the west of Cambridge later this y...
immediately? Why as an electronic book downloaded as a PDF file off the Internet of course.
Living in France and being able to find a lot of books in English by a wide variety of authors is reassuring...
Anyone who has a laptop, cell phone or a digital camera probably knows what it is like to run out of juice when performing a major task on the computer, making that important call, or taking that awar...
