• Tip of the Week: Give your e-mail messages a second life
• Headwhack of the Week: Why is Word deleting when I press the space bar 
• Geek Speak of the Week: Percussive Maintenance
• Advice Column: Should I turn off my PC or keep it running?
• Advice Column Bonus: How to buy proper power protection for your PC
• News: Software Bug Hunting: Brilliant Business Model or Blackmail?
• News: 10 High-Tech Security Devices to consider
• Opinion: Ergonomics is a CROCK!
• This Week's Radio Show: Buying the right Power Protection

Tip of the Week: Give your e-mail messages a second life

We all generally live and die by e-mail and if you use a program such as Outlook or Outlook Express in their default settings, you only have one shot at each message.  Once you download the message from your ISP, the only copy of that message resides in your computer.  If something happens to your computer, then all of the messages are gone and you get to start all over.  What if you could keep a copy of your most current messages on your ISPs mail system just in case you needed it?  If your ISP offers a webmail option, this tip also gives you more options for accessing your current messages because a copy is left on the webmail system for the interval you set.

The folks at Yahoo! have a simple description on how to change the settings in most popular e-mail programs for any mail system (you don't have to be a Yahoo! customer)

Headwhack of the Week: Why is Word deleting when I press my space bar?

If you use Microsoft Word at all, you have likely run into this scenario:
You accidentally left out a word in a sentence, so you place the cursor where you want to insert a word or two and start pressing the space bar to make room.  To your dismay, instead of making space, it starts deleting a character every time you hit the space bar.  The reason this happens is tha