Dan's Thoughts

Now that I’ve retired yet another book project, I can return to my blog. Today’s topic: Monitors of the future. And, yes, forget about 3D.
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The technical and confusing way that digital cameras snap pictures is leading a whole new type of photography.
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Computer games are so realistic these days. In Day of Defeat and Call Of Duty: World At War, the enemies speak German and Japanese. In Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the characters speak Russian, Portuguese, and Arabic. But what are they saying?
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I’m busy with several projects, so I’m skipping today’s regular blog post.

Or am I?

I am a professional computer book author. I’ve been working in the field for over 30 years. While I strive to make all my books the best that they can be, I recognize that I’m in an industry that routinely publishes a lot of crap.
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Word users can become massively frustrated by something a simple as a line. Not a line of text, but a line like this:

Nearly 20 years ago I wrote DOS For Dummies, the biggest, bestest-selling DOS book ever. In the back of the book, in the Part of Tens, I listed ten things you should never do on a DOS computer. Here they are with my up-to-date commentary on the relevance of my ancient admonitions.
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Here it is, the middle of August. It’s hot (at least here). I’m in the middle of a few projects. No juicy computer news. So I thought that I’d prattle on about Windows 8.
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It’s a good question: How can you tell when you took your current PC home and first set it up? Knowing the date is important because computers last only 4 to 6 years at their best, longer if you take care of the thing.
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As mankind moves to the cell phone as our ultimate digital tool, so follows the crooks. Right on their tail are the Good Guys using digital forensics on smartphones to catch them.
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