I received an email from a Word user who laments the loss of the AutoText feature in Word 2007. That got me thinking . . .
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May 5, 2010AutoText to Quick Parts, Part I
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May 3, 2010Apple’s Gamble: The PC is DeadThe iPad was met with a giant “What” by the tech community. That was followed by Steve Jobs’ unusual and very public criticism of Adobe’s Flash. Blogger Charles Stross thinks that he’s figured it out: The personal computer is dead and Apple is merely preparing itself for the inevitable.
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April 30, 2010Ancient Wambooli HumorWay back in the 1990s, when Wambooli and the web were still young, I concocted a series of bogus advertisements. For a while they appeared on the Wambooli site, and they looked typical of the web advertising back in the day. April 28, 2010Wonderful Funderful Win Key Shortcuts
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April 26, 2010iOops!Last week, Gray Powell went to a bar to celebrate his birthday. When he left the bar, he left his phone. Normally that would just be a sad story, typical of the digital age. The phone Gray left, however, was not just any phone. April 23, 2010The Alt+Keyboard TrickOne sure-fire way to get foreign characters, as well as special symbols, into your text on a Windows computer is to use something I call the Alt+Keyboard trick. April 21, 2010The Binary Side Of -1 + 1 = 0Welcome to a nerdy blog post on how computers deal with negative numbers. I don’t mean numbers with a bad attitude, but rather numbers like -1, -4, and on down to -∞.
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April 19, 2010April 16, 2010My Hands-On iPad Experience
April 14, 2010The Future Post OfficeA long time ago I spent a lot of money on Federal Express, UPS, and the Post Office. I shipped a lot of stuff: contracts, CDs, books. Today, not so much.
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