The city's official Web site was disabled Tuesday because city employees forgot to renew the domain name for the home page. ...more

September 9, 2009

Google's Gmail service has been knocked offline for much of the day in many places.Google's Gmail service has been knocked offline for much of the day in many places. ...more

September 1, 2009

Thousands of Microsoft's Zune media players — the software company's answer to Apple's iPod — unexpectedly conked out Wednesday and showed users an error message, prompting references to "Y2K for Zunes." ...more

January 1, 2009

Happy New Year from Microsoft Corp.: Your Zune is dead. Thousands of Microsoft's Zune media players - the software company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPod - unexpectedly conked out Wednesday and showed users an error message, prompting references to "Y2K for Zunes." The problems appeared when people tried to start up their devices. ...more

January 1, 2009

Thousands of Microsoft's Zune media players — the software company's answer to Apple Inc.'s iPod — unexpectedly conked out today and showed users an error message, prompting references to "Y2K for Zunes." The problems appeared when people tried to start up their devices. ...more

December 31, 2008

So my Beautiful and Talented Wife tries to print a document for her Healthy Together campaign, a local nonprofit program aimed at promoting healthy choices for Tampans, and her printer refuses to print. She gets an error message on her screen, "Cannot print." Being significantly smarter and techno-savvy than the average bear, my BTW logs off on her iMac, powers up her linked PC, and checks again on the printer. This is where it gets funny. Not just amusing, but really funny in a kind of scary way. ...more

September 2, 2008

I use Windows' "Send To" right-click menu as a quick way to copy a file to a flash drive or attach it to an e-mail. How do I get rid of all its irrelevant options? ...more

February 11, 2008

AVON PARK — Social-networking Web sites are one of the most popular ways for college students to keep in touch with one another, but it can't be done on South Florida Community College campus. The college has blocked sites like MySpace and Facebook from being accessed on the campus. Even YouTube, a popular Web site for watching and sharing video, is not accessible. "It's really frustrating when we are here waiting for class and we can't get on those sites," said SFCC freshman Justin Platt. "We use them for communicating with our friends, and I don't understand what's wrong with that." ...more

November 20, 2007