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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August 26, 2013The Tablet That Never SleepsMy Android Tablet must be bored. After about 10 minutes of my staring at it, it falls asleep. The display dims, then goes off completely. How can I keep it more interested? How can I keep it awake all the time? There has to be a solution!
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August 23, 2013The Three Great Word Processor SinsA word processor is a blessing, a massive improvement over writing by hand or by using a typewriter. Even so, most people who use a word processor slog through it just as if it’s an automated typewriter. Of all the foibles they commit, three rise to the level of great sin.
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August 21, 2013Organize Your ThoughtsYears ago, an Outliner was a separate type of program you could buy. It was a thought-organizer, and a very handy tool for anyone who deals with lots of information that has to be arranged in a logical and effective manner. Today, the Outliner is a feature — a subset, actually — of a word processor. That doesn’t diminish its usefulness.
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August 19, 2013A Clutch of Homebrew Unix UtilitiesI just can’t stop programming! Ever since DOS, when I wrote handy utilities in BASIC (and then in Assembly and then in C), I want to code some handy little shortcut or interesting little problem-solver.
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August 16, 2013A Clutch of Handy DOS UtilitiesMy trip down memory lane last week, with my foray into the DOSBox program to retrieve an old WordPerfect document, made me think about my typical DOS computer set up. It especially reminded me of all the utilities I used to make life bearable in that stark, command line environment.
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August 14, 2013Hold This, Please
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August 12, 2013Life After the InternetIt was truly a culture shock when the Government pulled the plug on the Internet. Citing “national security” concerns, the Feds halted all online activity several years ago. Without email, Facebook, the web, file transfer, online gaming, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, Google and more, the world changed in a heartbeat. August 9, 2013Sometimes You Don’t Know What You’ve StartedDigging through my archives this past weekend, I came across a letter I had written over 20 years ago. August 7, 2013From Folder to Directory and BackIn the command prompt world of DOS, folders were called directories. Once the transition to the glorious graphical goodness of Windows was made, directories became folders. They’re still the same thing.
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