November 4, 2013

Wambooli Birthmas

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It was 17 years ago that I wrote the book Dan Gookin’s Web Wambooli. This website was created to be an online companion to that text. It has since morphed into a general support site for all my books.
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November 1, 2013

Mankind’s Last Website

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It’s possible to use a combination of human psychology, technology, and greed to create what would ultimately become the final website, the ultimate diversion, the most profitable company in history, and the end of human civilization, all at once.
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October 30, 2013

Finding Your Android’s Storage Hog

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I’ve not seen it on any of my Android devices, but apparently there’s an error message. It reads, “Insufficient storage available.” That reminds me of the old MEM error message that appeared in Lotus 1-2-3.
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October 28, 2013

The 1,000th Blog Post

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This post is number 1,000 on the Dan’s Thoughts blog here at Wambooli.

My goodness!
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October 25, 2013

Ugly Cables Around My Office

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Supposedly life is becoming more wireless. Not so! Granted, I’m more high tech than most, but looking around my office, I see things like the disasters shown on this page.
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October 23, 2013

Breaking Your Word

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Like many complex things, when Microsoft Word decides to get weird, it does so with expert precision. Fortunately, Word contains a few tricks to help you fix annoying problems.
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October 21, 2013

GOOG 1000

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Google’s stock poked above $1000/share last week as its advertising revenue peaked. Wall Street’s reaction was a little insane, which isn’t news, of course. But pumping up a $900 stock to $1000 does seem to pique curiosity and interest.
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October 18, 2013

Ten Famous Nerds of TV and the Movies

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They could be evil. They could be sloppily dressed. They may hang with a group, but most likely they’re loners. They are the famous nerds of television and film. No matter what the show, live or animated, sit them down in front of a computer and they’ll know exactly what to do.
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October 16, 2013

Word File Management

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ma01-Word Document Icon My Word For Dummies books don’t cover the topic of file management. If they did, I’d have less room in the book to write about word processing, which is kind of important. File management remains a valid topic, however, so I thought I’d show you some Word file management tricks in this post.
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October 14, 2013

Camera App Options Galore!

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Camera-app You’ve heard the complaint before: Real cameras don’t have ringtones. That’s true, but it’s becoming less and less true every day. The high resolution cameras available on today’s tablets and smartphones can run circles around the professional digital cameras of a few years ago.
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