There’s no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers. Everybody has questions about them, and we aim to help.
Here are a few questions about computers I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, [...]
Walt answers questions about security for smart phones, finding desktop computers with Microsoft Vista Ultimate preinstalled, and changing iTunes authorizations.
Walt answers questions about iTunes copy-protection rules and iPods, making a printer available to multiple computers wirelessly, and surfing the Web from a car.
Walt answers questions about transferring music to a BlackBerry Pearl, using an external hard drive with Leopard’s Boot Camp and removing unwanted software.
Walt Mossberg answers questions about downgrading from Leopard to Tiger on a Mac, finding “easy listening” music on iTunes and why new slim laptops don’t have FireWire ports.
Walt Mossberg answers questions about downloading pictures from a digital camera wirelessly, dealing with corrupted files when using automatic backups and connecting your computers to a home-theater system.
Edited by Walt and written by Katie Boehret, this is a guide to gadgets, web services and other consumer technologies.
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