May 27, 2009

Never Gonna Give You Up

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Why is it people hang on to their computers way too long?
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May 25, 2009

Wambooli Porchcam, RIP

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I’ve decided to take the Wambooli porchcam offline.
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May 22, 2009

Is IEEE 1394 dead?

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About the same time, several years back, two competing standards were created for attaching external gizmos to computers. They were USB and IEEE 1394. One of them is about to die.
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May 20, 2009

No post today!

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I’ve been busy turning in an update to my PCs For Dummies, so I didn’t have time to blog. 🙁

May 18, 2009

Fill in the Blanks with Word

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A common thing people do with a word processor, especially in business, is to create a form. One of the most annoying things in Word is the way that it handles tabs. Combine the two, and you have just oodles of fun!
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May 15, 2009

Sending Elephants

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It seems silly, but most e-mail accounts have an upper limit on the size of a file you can send. For some accounts, the size is a puny 5MB.
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May 13, 2009

Computer Buying Advice

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When people discover that I’m into computers, inevitably the question arises, “Which computer should I buy?”
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May 11, 2009

The Lure of the Soft Return

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Word 7 changed a lot of word processing things. One of the most odd (some would say annoying) is its standard paragraph format which seems to always add a puff of space between the lines of each paragraph you type. When you’re trying to type an address, that extra space can be a real pain.
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May 8, 2009

Show Them Extensions!

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Unless you tell it otherwise, Windows hides the important part of a filename, the extension. I guess Microsoft does that so as not to confuse to bewilder beginners, though in my opinion it merely reinforces the fault in default.
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May 6, 2009

Windows 7 RC

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Today I installed the Windows 7 Release Candidate. OMG!
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