Stories by Paul Heltzel

Is Eudora snooping on you?

Nobody likes a snoop. So when you find that one of your programs communicates with a server on the Internet without first notifying you, you might get a little concerned.

The Internet is getting noisy, with the growing popularity of Net-based radio. A new entry, PC DJ from Visiosonic, aims to rise above the din by both fitting a need and doing its job simply and efficiently.

Napster, Meet Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap, simultaneously the world's least successful rock act and most successful rock parody group has announced an addition to file sharing - Tapster.

Comics King Stan Lee Fights Crime Online

How long has it been since you opened a comic book? Now you can click one open: Stan Lee's new Web-only, biweekly animated series, Accuser.

Surfing With Oscar

Can streaming technology improve the Academy's big night? We logged on to find out.

Track Friends by Phone

It's 10pm. Do you know where your teen's cell phone is? Swedish company CellPoint Systems this week introduced a new application that allows you to track someone's location by cell phone -- a sort of mobile buddy list.

eHow: help is on the Web

Maybe your car needs a tune-up. Or maybe your tabby cat has kittens on the way. Need advice on what to do? Help on these -- and almost any other topic -- is on the Web from online advice giver eHow.

You oughtta be in pictures

Get off and running with Web cameras. Hardware and software to get you live on the Net.

Step 3: Transfer the Files

Step 2: Prepare Your Album

Step 1: Grab the Software

Put Your Photos on the Web

Outsmart your kids with Allexperts.com

Web site connects you to gurus from more than 1500 areas of expertise from soup to nuts -- literally.

Come out to Myplay.com

Myplay.com wants to be your online CD collection, and offers 250MB of storage for audiophiles with audio files.

Put your slide show online -- free!

A new US Web site lets you create your own streaming audio RealPlayer slideshow, for free. Just upload 15 or more photos to Mslide, pick a song and the rest is done for you.