Jay Dougherty's Tech Blog

Users are finding the following problems with Apple’s new iPad: The new iPad (iPad 3) runs noticeably warmer than the iPad 2. Without a case, after about an hour, users are reporting that the new iPad becomes uncomfortably warm. There are reports from early adopters that the new iPad’s retina displa

The iPad 2 is a decent media and entertainment consumption device. But it has plenty of downsides that are not often discussed. Here’s my list:  E-mail: There’s a built-in e-mail app that lets you check your mail easily enough, but there’s no spam filter in the iPad. To get one, you have to pay for

If you’re considering Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011, you are probably doing so in large part because of the operating system’s advertised ability automatically to back up all of the machines in your house every night. And it does that, with aplomb. The trouble comes when you want to restore your da

Very annoying problem, this: You have a batch file that you created under Windows 2008 as Administrator, and you use the Task Scheduler to run it automatically. But the task scheduler won’t launch it! You can run it manually, but the task scheduler never launches it. Here’s a fix that often works: O

Books may not be extinct just yet. But with eBook readers–or E-readers–now well into the realm of affordability, the venerable paper book is becoming less appealing by the day. After all, with an E-reader, you can have thousands of books available to you in a device no larger or heavier than a slim

If you’re an avid user of either of these social networking sites, there’s good reason to want to back them up: You probably have lots of information there, and if your account were ever frozen or lost, you’d lose that data. Or you might simply lose track of what you want to find as the [...]

Part of what can make Windows 7–or any previous version of Windows–seem slow is the rate at which the cursor moves when you hold down a key. That’s why one of the first things you should do after a new installation of Windows 7 is to adjust the keyboard speed. Do that by opening the [...]

Microsoft has no doubt heard plenty of complaints about the ribbon bar, especially since  the company provided no way for users to return to the menu interface of Office 2003 if they want to. So the company spent some time putting together a handy “interactive guide” to Word 2007 (and 2010) commands

You can tell Office 2007 and 2010 to save files in the old 2003 formats by default. To do so, open an Office application like Word, and click the Office/File button in the top left-hand corner. From the resulting menu, click the Word Options button. In the Options panel, click Save in the left-hand

One of the annoyances most frequently cited by e-mail readers is receiving a message written in all capital letters. Capital letters denote shouting or raising one’s voice, and words composed of all capital letters can be difficult to read, as well. Use standard mixed case when typing e-mail message