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A plethora of browser plug-ins is available to help you tap the Internet's wealth of multimedia options, including video, sound and virtual reality. Equipping your home page with multimedia data […]

Adapting the Parallel Port for Bidirectional Communication You probably don't consider the lowly parallel port as versatile as its cousin, the serial port. It has been relegated to handling only […]

"Drill down" means something entirely different when you discover a cesspool instead of an untapped oil well. Microsoft's Active Directory claims to give a common face to all the objects […]

Microsoft Macro Assembler Version 5.1 Simplifies Macros and Interfacing Interrupt service routines. Highspeed async routines. Direct screen memory writes. Direct low-level disk routines. Precise control. The C language. Which item […]

A Strategy for Building And Debugging Your First MS-DOS Device Driver Writing device drivers is a difficult, tedious task that only operating system gurus should ever consider. Those who attempt […]

Keeping Up With the Real World: Speedy Serial I/O Processing At first glance, writing a serial communications program for an MS-DOS system looks fairly straightforward. Most high-level languages can interface […]

Strategies for Building and Using OS/2 Run-Time Dynamic-Link Libraries Your process has died. Later, when you run the BACKTRACE function in your debug DLL, you find that you TOOK the […]

Design Concepts and Considerations in Building an OS/2 Dynamic-Link Library You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. >USE DYNAMIC-LINK LIBRARY I see no DLL here. >MAKE […]

Overall Grade: B+ Pros: Powerful Web-to-database development package with thought-out bells and whistles. Interfaces easily with standard databases and ODBC. Nice GUI development environment. Cons: Touchy about Java and server […]

Many products have inherited the 'push' label, but only a few truly fit thedefinition for that emerging technology. The two products reviewed here are examples of 'true push,' which I […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft Redmond, Wash. (800) 426-9400 or (206) 882-8080 www.microsoft.com Pro Brings the Web to your desktop in a fully integrated, transparent way Con Seems slower than […]

Product Review Cold Fusion, Version 3.1 Allaire Corp.Cambridge, Mass.(888) 939-2545 www.allaire.com Price: Professional, $995; Workgroup, $495; Windows, $295 Pro: Powerful database extension through easy-to-use HTML extension tags Con: Hard-to-learn back-end […]

Product Review Anyware Office Overall Grade: A Applix, Inc. Westboro, Mass. www.applix.com Base price: $4,995 (server): $395 per concurrent user (client) Pros: 100% Pure Java certification Advantages of server-based application […]

First, let's take a look at what Internet whiteboarding is and what it isn't. Basically, it's software that allows you to share collaborative efforts doodles or documents during a teleconference. […]

I feel stupid. The next best idea since the original Sidekick comes along, and it wasn't mine. I mean, it's a simple idea, solving a need we've all experienced with […]

I seem to have lost my productivity. I had it about a week or so ago. It was right here, sitting on my desk, only a mouse click away. Then […]

I swear, I spend half my waking moments looking for something. If it's not my car keys, then it's some information I know is hiding on the Web. I waste […]

The article presents a chronology of events related to computer viruses in the U.S. from 1982 to 2006. Elk Cloner was the first virus appear outside a laboratory in 1982. In 1983, Fred Cohen coined the term "computer virus" which is defined as a program that can infect other programs by modifying them to include a possibly evolved version of itself. The first widespread virus was the Morris worm relased by Robert T. Morris Jr. from a laboratory in 1988.

Presents guidelines on using Windows Me operating system from Microsoft Corp. Considerations in running a stable Windows Me; Discussion on various utilities available in maintaining Windows Me system; Tips on potentially dangerous items from an operating system.

The article focuses on the history of the anti-computer industry in the U.S. The industry was formed in the mid-1980s when the computer revolution was just starting. Most of the early innovators knew each other or knew of each other. They were competitors but almost everyone was cooperative. And most of them were involved the Antivirus Research Organization.

Presents information on the Cold Fusion 3.1 software program from Allaire Corporation. Special features of the program; Extension made to the standard Hypertext markup Language (HTML) tags; Use of Cold Fusion Markup Language to create custom tags.

Compares Marimba Inc.'s Castanet software with BackWeb Technologies' BackWeb online service. Features and capabilities; Limitations; Prices.

Reviews various Java computer language products and applications. Cost of the software; Names of manufactures; Features of Java Workshop by Sun Micorsystems Incorporated.

Focuses on the Java and ActiveX programming languages for the Internet. Capabilities; Compatibility; Limitations; Performance; Benefits of combining technologies.