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In the deep dark past of ChatGPT (by which I mean, January and February of this year), people were understandably very excited about what it could do. We waxed lyrical [...]

Byline: Rob Laing 'I've been tweaking them like crazy' Slash says of his ongoing battles with the 'necessary evil' of using in-ears Slash and a stack: they just go together, [...]

Taking a tour of a filter plugin is a great way to understand how filters can be used to sculpt your sounds. Pride of place in any filter plugin is [...]

You've got delays and you've got reverbs, but Spectral Plugins say that their new Spacer effect, 'is like no delay you've ever heard, and no reverb you've ever dreamt of. [...]

WHILE GMAIL DELIGHTS in any browser, it's particularly powerful when used in Google Chrome thanks to the wealth of extensions (go.pcworld.com/gmailchrome) that expand its capabilities. Here we look at a [...]

NOT ALL DOCUMENTS and spreadsheets are created equal. Some require finicky formatting, others have platform compatibility issues, and many are just plain long and unruly. When faced with these more [...]

Gmail raised the bar for what we expect in an email service. But if you're only using its native features, you're getting just a taste of its power. There are [...]

WHILE THERE ARE plenty of web-based tools and productivity tricks to help you power through tasks in your browser, you can step up and speed up your capabilities even more [...]

If you're like me, you spend more time in your browser than you do in any other program. And it's not just because of the vast amount of information available […]

If you have the latest version of Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer, you've probably used an OpenSearch plug-in. This is the technology behind the search box at the upper-right […]

If you use the Internet, chances are that by now you've received an attachment or tried to open a file that is in portable document format (PDF). You probably downloaded [...]

WITH SO MANY advertisers, social networks, and other companies interested in your data, it's pretty hard to maintain any privacy online these days. But some useful tools can help you [...]

The SmartFill utility is one of the best features of the SmartPak add-in for 1-2-3 for Windows. SmartFill is a boon to people who create a lot of worksheets because […]

Tools to audit and document LANs and meter their software can help save time and reduce headaches. Flashlight, compass, map, extra food and clothes, sunglasses, first aid supplies, pocket knife, […]

Computer users can improve the performance of their PCs through add-ons for their printers. Dot-matrix printers can benefit from type managers, ink-jet printers can benefit from bitmapped font cartridges and laser printers can benefit from scalable soft fonts.

Statistics. The word reminds some of the media's attempt to reduce our lives to numbers: our average age, our median income, how much coffee we drink. Properly used, however, statistics […]

Leo, Zolman bought his first microcomputer (an IMSAI 8080) while in high school in L.A., carried it to M.I.T., withdrew, and wrothe the BDS C compiler with it is in […]

THE INTERNET offers a wealth of tools, information, and entertainment--and it asks very little from us in return. So don't lose your cool when a poorly designed online tool or […]

The Spirit of @Factory On the factory floor at Corby Distilleries Ltd., Art Phelan uses handheld instruments to measure the alcohol content of whiskey drawn from a nearby holding tank. […]

Macros In Space 1-2-3 users have long coveted Symphony's Macro Library Manager add-in, which lets you store worksheet areas--specifically macros--in RAM, independent of any worksheet. But these users need no […]

A STEP UP FOR POWER USERS An important new player that recently joined the 1-2-3 product team promises to increase your ability to customize a worksheet. Last September Lotus Development […]

You've got seven months - and counting. Is your software Y2K-compliant? If you've put off hiring a Y2K consultant to analyze your computer systems because you really can't afford it, [...]

Byline: RENAUD LAVOIE The video broadcast market is a niche market with multiple complexities and particularities. Two common examples are pathological data encoding schemes and 75V coaxial cable. The following [...]

TVE GALICIA, Spain's largest public television network, has deployed Vizrt's Newsroom Connect ActiveX plug-in for Viz Content Pilot, Vizrt's core content control system.Vizrt's graphics creation tools are now fully integrated [...]

Byline: Serdar Yegulalp Once upon a time there was a browser named Firefox -- an open source project that many people happily picked up and spun off into their own [...]