Wayne Kawamoto

When something just won’t fit, a situation that Cinderella’s step-sisters encountered, you can always turn to a good compression utility such as 7-Zip that can turn a big file footprint into something manageable enough to be efficiently moved over the Web or copied to any storage medium. It’s the digital equivalent of a sledgehammer and […]

Faces vaguely ring bells and names elusively reside at the tips of tongues, and if you need to effectively manage contacts in our electronic age, you’re probably a candidate for ACT by Sage 2009, the latest version of the well-known contact manager. A virtual lifeline for business owners, sale professionals and company representatives, contact managers […]

Unless you’re a reclusive hermit who never downloads files, visits Web sites, or shares documents, security threats are regrettably a way of life. To help combat the many malicious evils out there, Symantec serves up Norton Internet Security 2008, the latest version of the venerable security suite that offers some improvements and effectively serves peace […]

“Downtime.” The word prompts shudders and weak knees in the hardiest of IT managers. Colorful language can also result. Whether downtime is the result of a natural disaster, malicious act, computer failure or operator or worker error, it’s a destructive force that halts productivity as workers wait for tools to come back online, reduces revenue […]

Need to stay on top of the latest news and information but don’t want to continually visit web sites or sort through announcements in e-mail in-boxes? Of course there is a better way and it’s known as an RSS feed. Depending on who you talk to, “RSS” stands for “Rich Site Summary,” or “Really Simple […]

The long-awaited Microsoft Office 2007 is now available in a pre-release beta. A look at the preliminary version indicates some well thought-out changes that may or may not improve productivity, particularly among experienced users. Seemingly every new feature has its advantages and disadvantages, but there are some improvements that are definitely welcome. A 500-pound gorilla […]