Home & Small Office Computer Guide

If you believe the hype Vista is definitely the best thing since sliced bread. It will do everything but tie your shoelaces in the morning and if you’re not running Vista your missing out on one of life’s major experiences and yada yada yada …

The fact is that at the grassroots level Vista is still a dog. Many individuals and businesses both large and small are still finding that key pieces of software will not run on Vista. Fortunately several large computer manufacturers … and plenty of local ones too … are aware of the problems and Windows XP is still available if you ask for it.

You’ll find more information about it here

Anything that will rid the back of my office desk of the rat’s nest of cables and wires that come with having two computers set up there is always going to grab my attention. So more talk of wireless USB connections certainly got me interested.

Talk of wireless USB has been around for some time - it was first written about in 2004 and in January this year I suggested that it was closer than many people thought and as far back as January 2006 Belkin had released a cable free USB hub but despite that nothing much has happened with wireless USB until now.

Last week things began to change as Belkin announced the release of another wireless USB hub and Lenovo announced a notebook with wireless USB as an option.

More manufacturers are expected to announce wireless USB products in the coming weeks so perhaps we’re about to see wireless USB really begin to take off.

You can read more about it here 

I really hope that you’re not one of those people who opens email attachements - no matter how innocent they may appear - without first running them through a virus scanner.

Even if the email is addressed to you personally and comes to you at work you should take precautions because the attachement you open could compromise your computer and every other computer that’s networked to it. This story shows how nasty the situation is becoming.

If you happen to spend a lot of time on eBay - searching for computer bargains of course - then here’s the eBay Toolbar.

Check it out … it looks like it can save you time for other things … like searching for other bargains on eBay.