Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - Page updated at 03:36 p.m.

Linda Knapp
The Getting Started column covers personal technology for non-experts. Every Saturday, I report back on the tech tools and toys I've been learning about and often trying myself, so I can help you better understand the technology you're using, or may use soon.

Marketplace
shopping
Shopping
Give yourself a treat and visit Watson Kennedy's Holiday Open Houses
More minding the store
Give yourself a treat and visit Watson Kennedy's Holiday Open Houses
More minding the store
events for Monday, Nov. 23
- Karan Dannenberg Clothier Black Friday Sale
- Kibbn Anniversary Sale
- CraftsGiving
- Metropolitan Pilates Pre-Thanksgiving Sale
editors' picks
More shopping guides
- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Tugboat sinks at Seattle waterfront pier
- Illegal workers quietly let go
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- Vikings easily beat the Seahawks
- Craigslist adoption ad: A plea by young mother-to-be? A scam?
- Chase shrugs off loss of CD investors
- Woman stabbed by stranger in North Seattle
- Snow piles up on Cascade slopes
- Denny Triangle gains skyline, but tenants slow to come
- Sprouts, raw fish on attorney's 'do not eat' list
- Tattoos at Mill Creek church pierce skin, soul
- Illegal workers quietly let go
- Food-safety lawyer's wish: Put me out of business
- Rediscovering Moab, 'the most beautiful place on Earth'
- It's possible to recover a life lost to hoarding
- Child-support error costs nearly $21,000
- Architects, chefs find 'kid' within to build Gingerbread Village
- 'The Road' takes Viggo Mortensen to Mount St. Helens and Astoria, Ore.
- Washington state wines make annual best-of list
