September 11, 2013

Watermark Me

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I see a lot of documents where the watermark feature is used. Mostly it displays the text “Draft” diagonally on the background of every page. That trick’s pretty easy to figure out, but it’s not the limit of what you can do with Word’s watermark feature.
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September 9, 2013

Fascinating Spam

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As Email is entering it’s fifth decade, I’ve noticed that the quantity of spam reaching my inbox has dramatically declined. Not only that, the spam is becoming far more interesting.
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September 6, 2013

What to do With Your Old Phone

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You did it. You finally got rid of that old clunker. It was the “phone you hate.” And now, after suffering through the ordeal of waiting until the magic day the upgrade kicked in, paying for the new device, and questioning that deceptive $30 transfer fee, you have a wonderful new smartphone. Indeed, you are smart. But what about that old phone?
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September 4, 2013

New Android to be Named Kitkat

Filed under: News — admin @ 8:34 am

Yes, Android 4.4 will be named after the chocolate bar, not “Key Lime Pie,” which is what everyone in the universe was supposing. Silly Apple-esque spoof video shown below:

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Manage Your Passwords

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Oh, please: Don’t tell me that you’re enough of a sucker to use the same password on all your accounts: PC, Email, all those web sites. Please don’t tell me that’s true!
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September 3, 2013

Apple’s Lack of Innovation

Filed under: News — admin @ 11:30 am

Once upon a time, Apple was the innovator, Microsoft was the imitator. Apple created wildly unique products, many of them becoming industry-changing paradigms. Microsoft was the “me too” that came later, oh and toss in a new “standard” based on the technology they aped from someone else.

Microsoft hasn’t changed, but has Apple? Since the iPad, what has Apple offered the tech universe that’s been astoundingly fresh and different?

Nada.

Yet the stock continues to climb.

Perhaps the iWatch will be a breakout product, but even then Samsung’s wrist computer is due out before the end of the month. Apple is languishing. And it’s doubly disappointing for me because, generally speaking, any industry excitement invariably comes from the fruit company.

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September 2, 2013

Where I Learned To Program

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You think Windows sucks? It’s a vast improvement over the Days of DOS, with its unhelpful, cryptic command line interface. But that was a friendly field of festive flora compared with the dark dingy pre-DOS environment where I learned to program. Yes, I’m referring to my first computer, the cursed TRS-80.
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September 1, 2013

Perhaps None of This is Real

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I’ve thought about this myself: What if our universe isn’t real, but is a computer simulation. Or what would approximate a computer simulation on a grand scale?

The question I would have if this existence where simulated, ala The Matrix, would be “What’s the point?”

Let me get philosophical: Are we here voluntarily or are we sentenced to life? Either way, the process somehow involves losing most, if not all, memory of any prior existence. Apparently that’s one of the rules and pretty much everyone abides by it.

And how can you determine whether or not you’re in a simulation when the only tools available to you are built inside the same construct? It would be like looking for a glitch in a game, an exploit. But not every exploit can be utilized to determine the external environment. Etc.

Oh, I could prattle on for hours on such a topic.

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August 30, 2013

The Miracle of File Association

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You don’t even think about it. Click on a file icon and a program opens. Well, hopefully it opens. When it does, the process is called file association. It’s how all graphical operating systems know which files belong to which programs. It’s a process that makes your computing world a more sane place.
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August 28, 2013

Fancy Title Pages with Text Boxes

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Above you see the title page from my proposal for Samsung Galaxy Note For Dummies. That’s the first page of a Word document. It’s completely formatted without using two presses of the Enter key in a row. You too can create such title pages as well, providing you learn the secret.
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