Have you seen them? The new ads for Windows that feature comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates? Funny? Yes, in a Seinfeld way. But for the life of me I cannot figure out what the heck they’re trying to sell.
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Maybe it’s just me, but I see way too many pencils used with computers and high technology. No, not real pencils, but pencils in advertising, logos, and icons. It has me puzzled.
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Should you get the 64-bit edition of Windows Vista? Should you buy a 64-bit CPU for your next PC? These questions aren’t really that tough to answer — providing that you (yes you) know the answer to a single, simple question.
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Being both a blessing and a curse, the Internet was most likely brought forth by the ancient Greek gods. Specifically, the gods Athena, Hermes, Eris, and Eros.
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When you blindly click the Accept button to agree to Facebook’s term of service, you are granting them an unlimited right to own and possibly sell your images — and to profit from that sale.
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I’ve only used a Migration Wizard once, and that was as research for a book. But for my new PC, I actually took the plunge and used a migration wizard. It worked as advertised, but I don’t know whether I’ll use one again.
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The oldest PC in my office got replaced this past week. It was pushing 7 years, which is a year too long for my recommended PC upgrade cycle. Unpacking the new PC revealed something I’ve never seen before in any computer box: A Windows XP downgrade disc.
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Can you control Apple? I’ll bet you can. Just buy an Apple product — a Mac or iPod — and within three weeks they’ll come out with a new one. It’s like controlling the stock market: buying stock and then seeing its price go down. But stock prices may come back up. With Apple, your old junk is just junk … unless you know where to look.
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Print media is not dead. Printed material will always be with us, primarily for the reasons of permanence and portability. Newspaper publishers specifically need to understand what business they’re in now that the timeliness factor is owned by the Internet. Better still, they can exploit the power of the computer to deliver content and advertising in a powerful, profitable manner.
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In the late 1990s I attended a convention where the keynote address was titled (in part) Roadkill on the Information Superhighway. Nearly 10 years later I can proudly declare one species as roadkill: the newspaper. But they weren’t killed. Instead, they ran out into traffic and got squished.
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