Ever wonder what that tiny little square is with the numbers in it? That’s the Chrome web browser’s tabs feature, although on a mobile device it’s not as obvious to use as it is on a computer.
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October 20, 2014The Mobile Chrome Browser’s Tabs
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October 17, 2014Easy Access to Weird Characters in WordTyping on a computer involves more than just the text you’ll find on the keyboard. Occasionally you need some special symbols. Word’s Symbol command can help, but you probably don’t know the secret to finding even more symbols than what’s displayed in the Symbol dialog box.
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October 15, 2014Save Me!My advice: Save your documents! Save them right away, as soon as your create something, such as a smidgen of text in a word processor. Then save frequently and often. That’s good advice, but it begs the question of where to save.
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October 13, 2014Adios, Dial-Up ModemThe sun is about to set on the dial-up modem, once the most common way to access the Internet. According to Pew Research, fewer than 3 percent of Internet users have a dial-up modem. An era has passed. October 10, 2014Windows Phone? Nope!I’m often asked which phone to buy. Brands and model numbers mean little to me. What’s important is the operating system, in which case you have several choices. Among them, I prefer Android (of course). Apple’s iOS is also good, but I strongly recommend against buying a Windows phone. October 8, 2014A Better USB ConnectorDon’t get me wrong: The USB cable is genius. It improves upon a nightmare of cables that once festered behind every computer like a nest of snakes. The problem? While you have a 50 percent chance of plugging the cable in the proper way, you get it wrong about 80 percent of the time.
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October 6, 2014How to Shoot VideoYes, your smartphone or tablet has the ability to record video. I describe how it works in my various Android For Dummies books. What I don’t really do, but I’ll probably do from now on, is really tell you how to shoot video. October 3, 2014The Post-Jobs Apple
Is creativity dead at Apple in the post-Jobs era? October 1, 2014Android App UndoI had an interesting email the other day: A user wanted to know how to disconnect an Android app from Facebook. She tried uninstalling the app, but that trick didn’t work. What did work was to clear the data.
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September 29, 2014Merging Labels in Word 2013Mail merge is one of those things you expect a word processor to do. Word takes the concept a step further, letting you create mail merge letters, email, and mailing labels, among others. Of the lot, merging labels seems to work the weirdest.
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The recent introduction of iPhone 6 Plus has motivated some pundits to accues Apple of being a me-too company. After all, the large format iPhone comes years after Samsung created the first phone-tablet, or phablet, the Galaxy Note.