Buying Guides & Articles:Home & Lifestyle Software

Thanks to e-mail, some say that the art of the handwritten letter is dead. And they might be right; I buy a lot fewer stamps these days than I used to, making high-tech... Read more

I purchased Mvelopes' Web-based personal finance service as a result of a review in your magazine. Shortly after my 30-day free trial ended, my bank told me that my... Read more

This week I found a few ways for you to save your dinero (or moolah, if you're from Moolah); if you're a bona-fide student, you can also save some bucks on Microsoft's... Read more

In a recent column, Memos on the Go, I briefly mentioned Jott. It's a free service that transcribes voice messages you send it into text, then e-mails a transcription of... Read more

Sharing photos by sending them as e-mail attachments is so 2003. Nowadays, the place to store and share digital photos is on the Web. Here are some ways to share, tag,... Read more

Have you ever taken a great vacation shot only to realize later that a telephone booth obstructs the middle of an otherwise picturesque duck pond? Or that a tourist in a... Read more

Without software, a computer is basically useless. After all, the whole reason we buy computers is to run programs. Some are games; others are utilities that protect us... Read more

For a long time now, software-as-a-service companies have been championing the benefits of no-software and minimal computing infrastructure on the desktop. These... Read more

David PlunkertStuck with a boring browser? Wish that Word could handle more tasks? Feel hemmed in by Photoshop? You don't have to toss (or upgrade) your existing... Read more

Do you want to add another level of security to your login if you are in a workgroup? Every wonder why domain users have to use the CTRL + ALT + DELETE? By having to... Read more