I just found this out, but then again I’m backing up all the time to several external sources.
March 31, 2013March 29, 2013Your Android Device Does ZIPMobile devices are not computers. They’re dissemination gizmos, designed to use data but not necessarily create it. That’s a pretty fat line, however, and it gets crossed frequently as people try to stay current and mobile at the same time. March 27, 2013Tips and Tricks for Numbered Lists in WordWord’s automatic line numbering feature fills you with glee or drives you to despair. Either way, the feature is more clever than you think, especially when you know some tips and tricks.
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March 25, 2013Allow Me to Rant Upon Google GlassGoogle Glass is that new glasses like gizmo that puts the Internet right in front of your eyeball. It’s most likely going to be the ultimate cool kid toy for a while, until everyone figures out how ultimately creepy the thing is.
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March 22, 2013Text Highlighting AdventuresRecently a reader wrote to ask my how to get more text highlighting colors in Word. The short answer: You can’t. The skimpy 15 color palette is Microsoft gives you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t highlight text in zillions of colors.
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March 20, 2013It SIMs Like a Good IdeaQuite a few mobile devices come with a SIM card. It’s not a memory card, although the thing does have a few memory-card-like features. Still, it’s nothing to get excited about. March 19, 2013Google About to BabbleHa! I predicted this. In a recent book, I was writing about all the different chat feature Google offers. There’s Talk, Voice, Messenger, and Google+. I opined, “It wouldn’t surprise me if you see the Talk app go away in favor of some other, general chat app. Or it may just be replaced by Google+.” Apparently the path is now set, and the app is going to be called Babble.
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March 18, 2013My Sad Line of Windows Books
March 15, 2013The Street Rips into the Samsung Galaxy S4I’m not sure how the Galaxy S4 phone is such a disaster, but for being an iPhone “killer” Apple’s stock hopped up 11 points today.
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Changing Page Numbers in the Middle of a DocumentI get this question a lot: How can you write a document so that page numbering goes from i through iv for the first four pages, then restarts number at 1 on page 5? Confused?
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I gave up writing Windows books a long time ago. It’s not that I wanted to.