April 13, 2011

Life in 4G Land

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Sorry about missing Monday’s blog post. I was out of town. Specifically, I was in a town where they offer 4G LTE service.
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April 8, 2011

Sometimes I Just Hate Troubleshooting

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Eager to play a game yesterday, I decided to click the Stop button when performing a Windows update. Big mistake.
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April 6, 2011

Áccènts gâlôrë

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You have a keyboard. You have Word. How do you get those accented characters even though they don’t appear on the keyboard?
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April 4, 2011

Cell Phone Acronym Mania!

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I thought the days of explaining technology acronyms was long gone.
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April 3, 2011

The 30th Anniversary of the Osborne I

Filed under: News — admin @ 9:27 am

The dawn of the portable computing era was 30 years ago today. The Osborne was truly a revolutionary computer, very popular, well-priced — and doomed!

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April 1, 2011

Oh Lord: April Fools

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I’m not a big fan of April Fools, which is an especially popular day for computer nerds.
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March 30, 2011

The Real Dr. Ruth – Gookin Interview

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About a month ago, I wrote about an upcoming Internet radio interview. It’s about the 20th Anniversary of the For Dummies books. Tomorrow is the last, final, we’re-done interview. The guests are Dr. Ruth and myself.
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March 28, 2011

Control the Keyboard with Control Keys

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A long time ago, computer keyboards had some nifty shortcuts. If you were adept with your left pinky finger, and didn’t mind cluttering your head with useless trivia, you could forgo keys like Tab, Backspace, Escape, and Enter.
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March 25, 2011

MySpace 10 Million Users Lighter

Filed under: News — admin @ 3:40 pm

Poor Tom. He’s losing friends faster than Muammar Khaddafi.

MySpace is not the big deal it once was. Soon, Facebook will not be the big deal it once was. New social networking sites appear every week. I’ve said it before: Someday Facebook will be as trivial as AOL is today.

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March 23, 2011

The Amazon App Store

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Open competition for your apps? What is that! The free market in action? Can’t be Apple, of course. Must be Android!
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