This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about transferring files to a new computer, disks for the Firefox browser and sharing operating systems within a household.

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Walt Mossberg reviews Pure Digital’s disposable video camera, and warns not to count on great results indoors.

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Apple’s adoption of Intel processors for its future Macs is big news in the computer world. But what does it mean for the average consumer, who just wants the best computer for the job?

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This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about how to cure a laptop’s startup ills and wireless Internet access with a dial-up connection.

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Walt and his assistant test three free blog-creation services and quickly learn how simple it is to set up a blog, and how addictive they can become.

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The graphical user interface has been a success in the mass market since the Apple Macintosh debuted in 1984, and it has dominated computing since Microsoft Windows went mainstream around 1990.
Its visual display of files stored in a nested hierarchy of folders has worked pretty well — until recently.
In the past few years, computer hard [...]

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Microsoft has just released a product that adds both tabbed browsing and desktop searching to Windows computers. Walt says the features aren’t as good as their built-in counterparts, but they get the basic job done.

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This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about deleting temporary Internet files, overriding photo software and whether Apple’s switch to Intel processors will make Macs vulnerable to viruses.

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Walt says Logitech’s new wireless headphones for iPods sound good, but are uncomfortable and expensive.

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This week Walt Mossberg answers questions about cleaning laptop screens, security packages and converting Quicken data from a PC to a Mac.

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