Netbooks Come Into Their Own

Walter S. Mossberg's article on this new breed of PC makes for good and enlightening reading.

From the article: "Somewhere between the laptop and the smart phone, the computer industry has long believed there could be a small, low-cost device that would please consumers and sell well.

The device would be more versatile than, say, an iPhone, but much cheaper and more portable than, say, a ThinkPad. The trouble is, every attempt to create such a category of computer has met with failure — until now."

Read the whole article here.

Password Protect a Word or Excel Document

This is a handy little technique for password-protecting a Microsoft Word or Excel document.

 Password Protect a Word or Excel Document

External Storage

Shopping in Costco today I saw the Western Digital 1TB My Book external hard drive priced at $179. They also had another brand 750GB drive for $109.

This is inexpensive additional hard drive (disk) storage folks. Of course it'll continue to get cheaper, but these are great buys. If you need some, now is a very good time to buy. In making technology buying decisions we usually have to go with our instincts and an analysis of what is available today and what is the cost.

These external hard drives come in very nice hardware packaging and connect to your PC, laptop or desktop, with a USB cable.

How much ink is really left in that printer cartridge?

This is a good article from PC World that gets to the heart of the matter!

How much ink left in the printer cartridge?