Google Glass is that new glasses like gizmo that puts the Internet right in front of your eyeball. It’s most likely going to be the ultimate cool kid toy for a while, until everyone figures out how ultimately creepy the thing is.
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March 25, 2013Allow Me to Rant Upon Google Glass
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March 22, 2013Text Highlighting AdventuresRecently a reader wrote to ask my how to get more text highlighting colors in Word. The short answer: You can’t. The skimpy 15 color palette is Microsoft gives you. But that doesn’t mean you can’t highlight text in zillions of colors.
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March 20, 2013It SIMs Like a Good IdeaQuite a few mobile devices come with a SIM card. It’s not a memory card, although the thing does have a few memory-card-like features. Still, it’s nothing to get excited about. March 19, 2013Google About to BabbleHa! I predicted this. In a recent book, I was writing about all the different chat feature Google offers. There’s Talk, Voice, Messenger, and Google+. I opined, “It wouldn’t surprise me if you see the Talk app go away in favor of some other, general chat app. Or it may just be replaced by Google+.” Apparently the path is now set, and the app is going to be called Babble.
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March 18, 2013My Sad Line of Windows Books
March 15, 2013The Street Rips into the Samsung Galaxy S4I’m not sure how the Galaxy S4 phone is such a disaster, but for being an iPhone “killer” Apple’s stock hopped up 11 points today.
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Changing Page Numbers in the Middle of a DocumentI get this question a lot: How can you write a document so that page numbering goes from i through iv for the first four pages, then restarts number at 1 on page 5? Confused?
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March 13, 2013DOS For Dummies Knock-Off Hall of InfamyAfter DOS For Dummies hit, other computer book publishers decided to take it on the only way they knew how: Cheap knock-offs.
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March 11, 2013Oh, Yes, There Were Some Knock-OffsDOS For Dummies changed the computer book publishing industry over 20 years ago. You can read the history on this website here, but what’s not told on that page is how the other computer book publishers reacted at the time. It got ugly.
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March 9, 2013Seattle Bar Bans Google GlassesIt had to happen. The $1,500 specs that keep your eyeball constantly connected to the Internet are instantly unpopular in a certain Seattle area bar. If only they would have thought of this when cell phones first came out.
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I gave up writing Windows books a long time ago. It’s not that I wanted to.