When traveling abroad, you can sate your need for power not with an aircraft carrier, but with a simple piece of plastic called a power adapter.
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September 18, 2013Overseas Power
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September 16, 2013Saint $iliconOur program, who art in memory
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September 13, 2013Webcam Mania of Days Gone ByI have no idea what got into me, but about 14 years ago I decided my office needed its own webcam. Back then, it was a fad.
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September 11, 2013Watermark MeI see a lot of documents where the watermark feature is used. Mostly it displays the text “Draft” diagonally on the background of every page. That trick’s pretty easy to figure out, but it’s not the limit of what you can do with Word’s watermark feature.
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September 9, 2013Fascinating SpamAs Email is entering it’s fifth decade, I’ve noticed that the quantity of spam reaching my inbox has dramatically declined. Not only that, the spam is becoming far more interesting. September 6, 2013What to do With Your Old PhoneYou did it. You finally got rid of that old clunker. It was the “phone you hate.” And now, after suffering through the ordeal of waiting until the magic day the upgrade kicked in, paying for the new device, and questioning that deceptive $30 transfer fee, you have a wonderful new smartphone. Indeed, you are smart. But what about that old phone?
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September 4, 2013Manage Your PasswordsOh, please: Don’t tell me that you’re enough of a sucker to use the same password on all your accounts: PC, Email, all those web sites. Please don’t tell me that’s true!
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September 2, 2013Where I Learned To ProgramYou think Windows sucks? It’s a vast improvement over the Days of DOS, with its unhelpful, cryptic command line interface. But that was a friendly field of festive flora compared with the dark dingy pre-DOS environment where I learned to program. Yes, I’m referring to my first computer, the cursed TRS-80.
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August 30, 2013The Miracle of File AssociationYou don’t even think about it. Click on a file icon and a program opens. Well, hopefully it opens. When it does, the process is called file association. It’s how all graphical operating systems know which files belong to which programs. It’s a process that makes your computing world a more sane place.
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August 28, 2013Fancy Title Pages with Text Boxes
Above you see the title page from my proposal for Samsung Galaxy Note For Dummies. That’s the first page of a Word document. It’s completely formatted without using two presses of the Enter key in a row. You too can create such title pages as well, providing you learn the secret.
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