April 19, 2013

Manage Your Phone’s Pics and Vids with Dropbox

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dropbox-logo Recently, disaster befell my Galaxy Note II phone. The MicroSD card died. I’d never had that happen before, but the 16GB card was kaput. Along with that misfortune was the loss of every picture on the MicroSD card — including the final shots of my son leaving for college. Gone.
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April 17, 2013

My Second Laptop

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The second laptop I purchased, the one I really put to work, was an NEC UltraLite. Its claim to fame was that it was the lightest laptop in the world. In 1988, and at 4.4 pounds, it was!
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April 15, 2013

My First Laptop

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The very first laptop PC I bought was the hulking Dell 320LT.
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April 12, 2013

The PC’s Doom is Spelled “Windows 8”

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Who didn’t see this one coming?

Well, of course, I did; I’ve blogged about it for several months now. So my guess is the only ones who didn’t get it are the top brass at Microsoft who foisted the disastrous Windows 8 upon legions of confused PC users.
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April 10, 2013

Check Your Passwords

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Type in some of your passwords to see how secure they are. Better: See if you can type in one of the top 10 passwords. Fun!

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Table Formatting Fun

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Crafting a table in Microsoft Word need not be a source of pain, woe, and frustration.
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April 8, 2013

Facebook, So Yesterday

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I keep waiting for the deluge. There comes a moment when, suddenly it will seem, that Facebook is no longer cool.
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April 5, 2013

Presenting PorchCam 2.1

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Porchcam 2.1 I finally got tired of the bad IR cutoff on the second generation Wambooli Porchcam. When Foscam put the latest version of their PT Wi-Fi camera on sale, I bought one. The result is the Wambooli PorchCam version 2.1.
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April 3, 2013

Big Picture Generic Terms

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As a nerd who writes technical books, I’ve had to hone my craft over the last several years. It’s not so much that technology changes; it does! Frequently! But the terms change over time with that technology. To keep up, I’ve gone Big Picture Generic.
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April 1, 2013

Wambooli Win

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Last month, which was March, I quietly held the first Wambooli Win contest. It’s been the first contest I’ve had on this website since I used to give away a free book to subscribers of my Weekly Wambooli Salad newsletter.
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