Thanks Frank for posting this. I've been in a discussion with another forum member about this very topic. I'd read Thiamethoxam (I use the brand name Actara) is supposed to be as effective as Imidan (phosmet) and Guthion (Azi-meth) on PC but couldn't produce any substantive research to back up the claims made. The problem I have with Actara is that it's only approved for 2 applications which isn't enough to get me through the whole PC season. But now that I know it has such effective curative action, in the future I'll wait and start applying it after I see evidence of infection. Very helpful, actually waiting to see infection before treating. Most other insects, if you see damage it's too late. I see Acetamiprid (Assail) provides good control albeit, not quite as good as Thiamethoxam at 75% vs. 90% reduction in emergence.

Dell has become more competitively priced, and I purchased a desktop for my wife for Christmas 2006, so we have just over a year on it. It is not used for business, but it does get use, I'd estimate 2 hours per day, mostly on the web and email. It has worked without any problems. As said, given it is competitive price-wise, I think Dell is an easy choice based on its long history as market leader in PCs/Notebooks. As for stores, that's relatively new, I see Dell at Walmart but have not given a close inspection. Except for Walmart that usually cuts a tough deal with suppliers, I'd expect you can save money buying over the web directly from Dell, don't forget to add in the shipping before comparing price. Web orders too, allow selection of component investment on all/most models.

I am sure she could grasp using gmail it is fairly easy and all she has to do is use her browser and she does that to view any website just save gmail as a fave so she can find it easily. I personally would set her up with firefox instead of IE for ease of use and safety and then you could simply put the gmail link directly on the bookmarks toolbar so it is right there for her to click on and set gmail up to remember her info. If she has Vista the firewall in it should be ok for her just make sure once you remove za you turn on the windows firewall in security center. for antivirus I am not sure what you are using but I also like AVAST free you do have to do a real easy quick registration that they send to your email but then it is set , you have to do the register thing about once a year. I would make sure you put some good anti malware programs on there and show her how to open them update them and run a full scan with them have her set up a schedule once a week to run her scans when her pc is on, these 2 are the best SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware she will have to remember to hit the update button before scanning. Also good to have is spywareblaster, this one is not a scanner for it just open it once a week hit update, hit enable all protection, the shield turns green that is it. SpywareBlaster and I agree congrats to her for being willing to take on the technology world! Definitely set up windows auto updates to do them automatically for her she definitely wants to get those and make her understand she does have to leave the computer on so that her programs get their updates. That is one big issue I run into with some elderly, they think they only want to turn it on when they need it then the pc gets way behind on updates and when it is turned on everything tries to update at once and it can be a big mess. leaving it on does not hurt anything mine stay on 24/7. for that reason it is really safer to leave it on rather than keep it off! She could schedule her scans to happen at night while she is asleep.

No according to the download link where you select your operating system it only lists windows systems. I know there is however a kindle for pc version for apple products and have heard some that have ipad use it. You would need to look in the app store for ereaders this just came out about what Apple is doing regarding it's policies for ereaders and I am thinking it will not make a lot of people happy Apple's app store policies: What will they provoke?