Lots of interesting stats (and graphs!) from the University of Virginia regarding students and their computer use. All students, 100 percent, now have computers at school. Nearly all those computers are laptops. Nearly half of them are Apple laptops.
August 8, 2010AOL Still Nearing DeathI’ve you’ve been visiting Wambooli for a long period of time, then you may remember my “Just Say NO to AOL” graphic I once had out front. I am not an AOL fan. Never was. Now, happily and according to their latest financial report, AOL looks like it’s going to die. Soon.
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August 6, 2010Thanks for the Extra Crap!
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August 4, 2010The Coming Cell Phone DominationIf you’re only using your cell phone to make phone calls, then you seriously need to join the 21st Century.
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August 3, 2010Where have all the recovery discs gone?Once upon a time, you received a Windows installation disc with your new PC. Then it became a “recovery” disc. Now you get nothing, though there may be a recovery partition on the hard drive. What good is that when the hard drive goes kablooey? Android phone OS poised to be #1The Android phone operating system is rapidly gaining ground, thrashing just about every other phone OS on the market. I agree: Android presents a logical way to operate a cell phone. As these gizmos rapidly replace low-end computers for most people, things are looking good for Google and Android.
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August 2, 2010A survey of operating system gamesFrom Technologizer, a review of those trivial, free games you find included with your operating system. Believe it or not, they are the most played of all computer games, yet they receive hardly any attention. Stats! Stats! Stats!I hear a tidbit on the radio the other day. It said that over one third of the computers on the Internet are used for
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August 1, 2010Spies in your computerI wrote a blog post about this topic a few weeks back. Apparently I wasn’t too far from the mark regarding “foreign spybots” in our technology.
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July 30, 2010Backup Stuff, Part IIIt’s boring to read about backup. It’s interesting to do a backup. It’s thrilling to actually use a backup that saves your keister. |
