Gerry Blackwell

Since the early days at Xerox’s research labs in Palo Alto Calif., where the now ubiquitous graphical, point-and-click PC user interface was invented, operating system designers have sought to make their products easy, convenient — intuitive — for users to learn and use. The user interface doesn’t just defines the “look and feel” of a […]

When Brent and Priscilla Crouch of Greenbrier, Tenn. heard about a neighbor’s teenaged son earning $15 to $20 a week re-selling products on eBay, it started them thinking. Could they do the same thing on a slightly bigger scale and turn it into a viable small business for Priscilla to run from their home? Three […]

For the keyboard impaired, the disabled, or anyone who just thinks the idea of talking to a computer is kind of cool, speech recognition has enormous appeal. You talk and the computer types. Or you talk and the computer does your bidding. The potential productivity benefits are phenomenal. I decided to look at speech recognition […]

If you want to securely and easily publish documents on the Web while retaining the fonts, layout, pagination and graphics of original Word processing or desktop publishing documents, you need to be able to create documents in Adobe System’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF document format, which can be read by Adobe’s Acrobat Reader, […]

Back in 1999, computer retailer Lee Vaccaro could read the writing on the wall. His once prosperous bricks-and-mortar stores in Florida would be hard pressed to survive the twin impacts of Internet e-commerce and a faltering economy. Without a sophisticated e-commerce system of his own, Vaccaro knew he couldn’t hope to compete. And to implement […]

More and more small business owners are discovering they don’t have to pay a photographer or graphic artist to create images for their Web sites, brochures and flyers. They can do it themselves using a PC and photo editing software such as VicMan Software’s VCW VicMan’s Photo Editor 7.0. Granted these tools won’t turn you […]