Jul 7, 2010

The Austalian Tax Office’s excellent e-Tax software, available now for the PC platform for about ten years or so, is still not available for that ever increasing group in the population that chooses to use a platform other than Windows, Computerworld Australia reported earlier this week. In that article, James Hutchinson mentioned that the ATO was...

Dec 10, 2009

All aboard for the giant imaginary boat where The Gadget Grill is broadcasting from tonight. And what are we broadcasting from this ridiculous place? We’re talking about online shopping and what you need to be on the lookout for this holiday season. Hackers & scammers are out in full-force this year so we’re talking to Symantec’s David Hall...

Nov 19, 2009

Ever since installing the Windows 7 RTM build, I have been unable to have that system automatically log on to an assigned mapped drive on my MacBook. Until now. The basic concept is that from Windows Explorer, you want to map a networked drive, and retain that mapped network drive so that it is persistent through multiple reboots and logins to that system. The...

Nov 17, 2009

In this article, I told about how I was setting up a computer for my mom. She had never used a computer before, and is now in her 80s. In starting to teach her how to use the computer, I noticed that the concept of double-clicking was not something that she was comfortable with, and so I looked for alternative solutions, the obvious one being that of just...

Oct 30, 2009

This week marks the forty-seventh Gadget Grill show. Now keep that number in mind because we share the number seven with someone else because this week, Windows 7 gets launched. The follow-up to Microsoft’s Windows Vista – which doesn’t exactly have the best reputation – was launched this week and we were on hand to talk to...