July 15, 2015

Ode to the Gamepad

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My son wanted to use the Xbox 360 controller on his PC. That makes sense. In fact, quite a few popular games offer that type of device input over using the traditional keyboard and mouse.

You can’t plug an Xbox controller into a PC. It doesn’t work. But Xbox-style controllers are available. They come with a USB connector. Plug it in and go, right? Not so fast.
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July 13, 2015

Paid by the Line

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What’s it like to be paid, not by the word, but by the line? I found out the other day. A reader asked how Word could be configured so that it counted all the lines of text in a document because that’s how she gets paid.
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July 10, 2015

The Cat Ate My Hard Drive

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Would it be possible for a cat to march across your desk, lie on the keyboard, and somehow manage to completely erase everything on your computer? Let me mull the possibilities.
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July 8, 2015

Hacking the Chrome Browser

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I enjoy hacking, although I’ve not always referred to it as such. Back in the day, I called it snooping, and it helped out tremendously when writing some of my early books and magazine articles.
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July 6, 2015

Windows 10 – I Wrote Too Soon

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Just last week I was extolling the virtues of Windows 10 and O how much I enjoyed it.

That was then.
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July 3, 2015

More on Windows 10

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The Windows 10 beta has been running sweetly on both my laptop and PC systems. The upgrade has gone so well, I’m seriously impressed. But I do have some concerns about Windows 10.
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July 1, 2015

Printing on a PC

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Who thinks about printing any longer? Not me.
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June 29, 2015

Gone From the App Store

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“I swear it’s there,” I explained. “I’m looking on my phone and on the computer’s web browser. I see the app. Click the Install button.”

My insistence was pointless. No matter how I tried, my friend just couldn’t see the app. It was frustrating.
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June 26, 2015

Hyphenation, the Forlorn Feature

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Ages ago, hyphenation was a common and useful feature in a word processor. It was part of the paragraph feature that adjusted long words, splitting them to make a line of text look better. Microsoft Word still offers this feature, although it’s disabled and rarely used.
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June 24, 2015

Windows 10 First Look

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Windows Logo

I finally got off my butt and installed the Windows 10 beta. And it’s not too soon, either, because next week most Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs will be provided with a free update. So again I find myself on the leading edge.
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