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Illustration: Edwin Fotheringham
Duck--there's another PC annoyance coming your way. And right
behind it, an endless barrage of technology-induced irritations, aggravations,
and stress-causing hassles. Stay calm--and prepare yourself to be a little less
annoyed. The King of Kvetches (that's me) has plenty of remedies, 26 in fact,
for dead external hard drives, missing desktop icons, unpleasant printer paper
jams, and good e-mail that gets the spam treatment. I've also got cures for
those times when your PDA, cell phone, digital camera, monitor, and network
become royal pains. And just to show that we play fair, PC
World editors gave two vendors a chance to respond to your gripes
about their products, and one of the two actually took us up on our offer.
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