Recently I retired a few electronic goodies, sending them out to my office boneyard in the garage. While rearranging items to make room, I found an old IBM Laptop case. I became enchanted. “Hey,” I thought, “I wonder what’s inside?”
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November 14, 2014Booty From the PastNovember 12, 2014Formatting a Floppy DiskThe year is 1992 — some 22 years ago. PCs For Dummies was my second book in the For Dummies series, co-authored with Andy Rathbone (who went on to write Windows For Dummies and, soon after, retire). One whole chapter in that book was devoted to a topic that doesn’t even resonate today: Formatting a floppy disk.
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November 10, 2014Thoughts About Amazon Echo
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November 7, 2014Flash CrashMobile devices — including Android and iOS — don’t run Adobe Flash. That’s a source of frustration for many people, but there’s a good reason for disabling Flash: It crashes.
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November 5, 2014Android Email SolutionsOne of the poorest things Android does is Email. First, Google’s Gmail is split off from the main Email program, which makes collecting and organizing all your email in one app an opaque task. Even within the Email app, weaknesses appear.
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November 3, 2014My Standing DeskLate last month, I wrote about the evils of sitting while you compute. The solution I offered is the standing desk. Well, I bought one. October 31, 2014ChromebookEver curious, I decided the other day to take the plunge and purchase a Google Chromebook. October 29, 2014Thumb Drive How-To Guide
October 27, 2014The Amazon Fire PhoneThe very nice people at Amazon recently sent me one of their new, Fire phones. I was so grateful, I wrote my latest book on the device, Amazon Fire Phone For Dummies.
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October 24, 2014Stand Up and ComputeI’m guilty. As I compose this blog post, I am sitting in my fancy Areon chair. It’s mighty comfy, but it’s not the best way to position myself during my workday. |
Right on the heels of the disastrous Fire phone, Amazon unveils another unique gizmo. It’s the Amazon Echo, which is a . . . well, I don’t know what it is.
You have them. You use them. But not until you read my handy one-post guide will you really feel like you know them.