My Canon Scanner came with Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (limited edition) but no manual or interactive tutorials. The various books in the shops now deal with 6.0 or later and they are very expensive. Are there any decent interactive tutorials available on CD-ROM at a reasonable price? (more…)

The WAV files on my computer refuse to open and play. All the WAV file icons have changed to a picture of the flying windows logo even though they still have the .EXE extension. Double left-clicking on any WAV file has no effect and right-clicking on the file (which brings up a menu) doesn’t have the ‘Open’ or ‘Play’ commands. Would you have any ideas on how I can bring these files back to life, apart from reinstalling Windows? I am running Windows 98. (more…)

I have a couple of problems with my internet. The first relates to downloading. Whenever I try to download a file off the internet, a torn or ripped version of the Quicktime logo appears on my screen after which nothing else seems to work. This is a relatively recent problem, with no previous history. The second problem relates to the downloading of a Webshots Desktop package. A message is displayed ‘Error locating Object Handler’ with a comment that there is no viewer available for the type of object that I am trying to open. I have tried to follow the prompts to download a viewer but the directions and options are not clear so I have now given up on this task. I am not sure if the above problems are related. My PC is a Pentium II 350 with 252 Mb RAM, Windows 98. I use Internet Explorer 5. (more…)

A few months ago I read Graham Cooke’s article about digitally burning vinyl records onto CDs. I wonder if you could elaborate on the process? Not being a computer whizz I would appreciate the process explained in the simplest fashion. (more…)

Windows Media player will not play my CD’s off-line. It demands my connecting to the web before it will operate. My machine will freeze unless I do. This phenomenon is recent. Is there a way around it (as I really don’t wish to connect to the net just to play my own CD’s)? (more…)