They’ve been on the market for years, but my wife and I still don’t own a digital LCD TV.

All of our TVs are the old, analog, CRT models, and they all still work just fine.

Two of our TVs have only a coaxial (cable TV) jack.

While the one in our living room has both a coaxial jack and composite video and audio jacks.

No DVI. No HDMI. Not even [more...]

Several years ago, I set up my home network’s router so that my wife and I could each access the Internet from our own desktop computers at the same time.

Then I figured out how to share my computer’s USB laser printer with my wife’s computer.

Then I bought a networked laser printer, so that we could both [more...]

Do you remember the IBM 5150?

If you do, then you’ve been using personal computers for at least a few decades, because the 5150 was the very first IBM PC.

Those of us who used the 5150 back then, may remember that it came with a 4.77 MHz, 8-bit processor, 16KB of RAM, two 5.25-inch floppy drives, no hard drive, and a monochrome, text-only display screen. [more...]

My wife and I have lived in the Sunshine State for the past 7 1/2 years.

We love our home and our neighbors.

And even though there are times when it is stiflingly hot and humid, our area has only gotten down to freezing on three or four nights — for only an hour or two each time — since we’ve lived here. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that Linux replaced Windows on my PCs in July of 2006.

As the Distrowatch Web site illustrates, there are hundreds of different Linux distros (flavors, models). Some are designed to be easy for beginners while others are designed for experienced users. Many are are designed for general use at home or in corporate settings, while others are designed for [more...]

My new camera arrived this past Tuesday, right on schedule.

I absolutely love it — except for one thing (see below).

I haven’t had much time to use it yet, but I did manage to shoot a couple of HD videos in its AVCHD Lite file format, and [more...]

It’s been more than six years since my Uncle Dom — the man who had given me my first film camera when I was only 12 years old — gave me my first digital camera, a brand new Canon PowerShot A75.

I liked it so well, that, a month later, I bought another Canon PowerShot A75 for my wife.

Since then, we’ve shot [more...]

Eleven days ago, I told you that I had downloaded and started to use Firefox 4, Release Candidate 1.

Since then, I’ve really enjoyed it.

In fact, after switching back and forth between it and Firefox 3.5.x a couple of times that first day, I began to [more...]