Almost 100,000 baby boomers embrace 21st Century technologies.     Baby boomers have access to more technologies to make like easier than has any other generation has had. Seniors, close to 100 million of us, are attacking technology head on - Demystifying Digital, so to speak. I stumbled over a neat article from Science Daily - one line in particular caught my eye and made me chuckle over what it's like to be a Digital Grandparent. An interviewee, talking about plug and play marketing ploys, said, "On the box it says it's as easy as 1-2-3 but when you fold out the list of...

Expert tests on Vista OS, like those from InfoWorld last spring, clearly showed that Microsoft Vista is 40% slower than was XP. Now there's a reason to spend money on an upgrade, right? Well, add to that, as we pretty much all know now, that Vista is buggy as all get out and snarly to use, and you have the picture of how business has been for this pretty lame system from Microsoft. Ok, now they're going to release the latest Microsoft operating system. You'll see it called Win7, Windows 7, and Windows 7 M3. I haven't seen the OS yet, so...

It was bound to happen – a glitch in the switchover from analog TV to digital television signal that will occur in February. There is a possibility that some smaller viewing areas could end up TV-less, at least for a time. You might lose your favorite station even if you have a converter box. In fact, you might lose them all. It’s because some small stations are finding that their digital reception area is not as large as their analog area was.   Matthew Lasar at Ars Technica reports on the problem and explains what the FEDs will do to try to...

  Here's a neat Web site for those of us who want to make the best holiday photos possible this year. If you have a digital camera you haven't used much, you just want to expand your photo techniques or you plan to give someone the gift of a digital camera this year, check into the comprehensive list of digital photo info sites provided by Judy Howle's Digital Photography page. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Some of the links are classes and some are free information sources. Another suggestion from me to you - Photoshop.com, the online destination that provides users...

Someone is dissin' the Beatles. At first, my hackles were raised as this Canadian journalist explained, in great detail, how possibly irrelevant much of the Beatles' music is to the digital music world of today. Lynn Crosbie's piece, Boomers Have Dictated Popular Taste Too Long in the Globe and Mail is fairly forthright - and makes sense. Her hook is that there's talk of the Beatles catalog being released in digital format for media players, iPods and so forth. Crosbie doesn't see this as a huge gain for the world. Consider one of her comments, "Those tyrants, the baby boomers, have dictated popular taste...

Adobe is building a software empire and doing a great job of cornering the market with the best products to create Web sites, edit photographs, compile videos. In days gone by, Adobe software was primarily for professional graphics people, print shops and the like,but now, they're heavy into the hobby market. The latest entry is a 2-program deal - a boxed set of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 and Premier Elements 7. Photoshop Elements is just that - a boiled down program to give you elements for functionality you need for home photo storage and editing, without the high price tag or...