October 22, 2008

Death to Drive Letters

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Computer window
The PC is pushing 30. It’s getting old. Obviously the design was a good one, because the basic PC model is still being used today. Hurrah for success! But on the software side I’ve been wondering about things. Primarily, why is it that we’re nearly one decade into the 21st Century and disk drive letters are still being used in Windows?
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October 20, 2008

Taking The Disk Out Of Drive

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Back in May of this year, I wrote about the future of the spinning hard drive.

Expect all new PCs to be solid state within 5 years; no more moving parts

Boy was I wrong!
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October 17, 2008

Your Next PC Monitors

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Alyx Vance at a Combine console
The era of the single monitor PC is coming to an end. The computer you use during the coming decade will have multiple monitors. Not just dual monitors like some folks have now, but many monitors of many sizes, such as those used by the character Alyx Vance in the Half Life 2 series of games (shown above).
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October 15, 2008

Updates!

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I’ve been swamped. I’m busy finishing the biggest book project I’ve ever done. Here are some quick updates.
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October 13, 2008

Not So Secret

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Apple notebook event
Apple was once very secretive about their new product announcements. Not so any more. Just about any Mac fanboy knows that tomorrow (October 14), Apple will introduce a new line of Macintosh notebooks or MacBooks.
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October 10, 2008

What is Zero, Anyway?

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Oh, the fun folly of the land of mathematical puzzles. I love it. I don’t consider myself to be good at math, but I enjoy reading books on math, and looking at the various mathematic theories and postulations, such as π, √-1, and e. But when it comes to computer programming, a key question deals with the value of zero.
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October 8, 2008

Here Comes The Style Epiphany

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I’m so embarrassed. I just wrote a series of posts about accessing styles in Word and, silly me, I know darn well that too many folks out there really don’t know squat about styles.
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October 6, 2008

The Tabulae Ceratera

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Picture this: It’s portable. You write on it using a stylus. It’s about information, but also communications. It also plays an important role in education. Nope, it’s not a Tablet PC. It’s a wax tablet, what the Romans called the tabulae ceratera, and it’s over 2000 years old.

Perhaps we haven’t come that far after all.
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October 3, 2008

Word Style Tricks, Part III

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The final step in my efforts to make Word 2007 friendly to my method of using Styles is to populate the Quick Style Gallery with those styles I use most often.
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October 1, 2008

Word 2007 Style Tricks, Part II

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To make the Quick Style Gallery more useful in Word, I have a suggestion: purge the styles you don’t need, add the styles you need quickly.
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