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Tech 9807February 16, 1998 Last week, this column addressed the notion that the sheer size of today’s Internet browsers seems to be getting out of hand. Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 4.01 I pointed out,  is a fat pig at a hard drive suffocating 25 MB! But aside from Netscape with ...

Tech 9806February 9, 1998 The battle of the Internet software giants continues, but not in the way I would have predicted.  Zip on over to Netscape’s home page (http://home.netscape.com/) and you’ll find a corporate posture ready to whup-up on big daddy Microsoft. “Welcome to the Netscape...

Tech 9805 My five-year-old says she has two brains. A girl brain named Sarah on the right side and Michael, a boy brain on the left. With no comment on which is the creative one, I put Sarah and Michael to task reviewing youth oriented web sites. Granted, at five, my daughter is still too young to...

Tech 9804 Call me a dreamer, but I believe that the World Wide Web has the potential to change the way we watch TV. Not just that inevitable merging of broadcast and Internet delivered programming, but the WAY we watch. For starters let’s look at ClickTV, available at the Virginian Pilot website...

Tech #9803 What’s in a name? It’s partly how you say it! This is especially true for cute, functional and easy to remember electronic addresses like w dot portfolioweekly dot com, or w dot O-D-U dot e-d-u. Did he say easy to remember? O.K., if you are not frequently on-line you may not...

Tech #9802 The hard drive that came with your PC finally died. Now what are you going to do? Plug in a new one! It’s not that simple. If your computer was manufactured before mid-1994 and you buy any of the big hard drives out now, you could have a problem with your BIOS. I know - what the heck...

Tech #9801December 31, 1997 Note: for some unknown reason I decided to change the heading from "Tech 31, Tech 32, etc. to Tech 9801, Tech 9802, and so on. I am keeping the old heading style for the remainder of these 1998 posts.  Here we are in a brand new year! What will the future hold? Total...

Tech #32December 12, 1997 After 27 months of construction and a $1.5 billion dollar price tag the FLAG undersea fiber optic cable which links Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Far East has entered into service. A main share holder in the property is our local phone company, Bell Atlantic....

TECH #3112/5/97 This week it’s time for a “what’s new and exciting” type column. There is plenty! The coolest by far is a new text to speech technology called LiquidMail, Version 2.0. This combination of software and a special plug in computer module will let you use a normal touch tone...

Tech #30December 1, 1997 You know that sound Homer Simpson makes when he’s messed something up? Hand goes to mouth and a noise that sounds like “dough!” comes forth. After telling you about Newsgroups in last weeks column, I forgot to warn you about SPAM! Not the canned lunch meat from...