Remember back about 10 years ago, back when Microsoft was king of the heap? It could not be dethroned. Bill Gates was Lord, but that was then. Today, Google is the Big Digital Kahuna. The question is, for how long?
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Here’s a security tip for you: Utterly disable Windows ability to display those annoying AutoComplete dialog boxes.
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While pondering my computer keyboard the other day, it dawned upon me that all the Ctrl key combinations for all the alphabet keys are nearly fully taken by commonly-used commands. Is it true? Why not find out!
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Thanks to PDAs, cell phones, Twitter, Facebook, and a host of other text-sharing applications, the human race is creating digital information at an alarming rate.
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How big is the biggest hard drive you can buy? I’m not talking bulk, I’m talking capacity! I’m also talking bang for the buck, or dollars-per-gigabyte.
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I’m a big fan of World War II action games, first person shooters. I love ’em. Recently I’ve become highly enamoured of Call of Duty, World At War, also known as COD 5.
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Dig back, way back into your PC closet. I call mine “the bone yard.” As your turning the pages of your personal computer history, answer this question, “How old is the oldest working computer you own?”
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Perhaps one of the most inelegant, vulgar terms in all of computerdom is dump.
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