July 12, 2013

Fixing the Windows Explorer Taskbar Shortcut

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If you use Windows 7, as a growing majority of people are, then you are probably as frustrated as I am about that Windows Explorer shortcut on the taskbar. Here’s what I’m referring to:
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July 10, 2013

Lovely Chrome Bookmarks

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google-chrome-logo If you haven’t yet switched to Google Chrome as your web browser, do so at once! Of all the web browsers, it’s certainly one of the fastest, if not the fastest. Further, you can use Chrome on your desktop, laptop, phone, and tablet and have all your bookmarks, passwords, even web history synchronized. That’s a really handy feature.
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July 8, 2013

Zettabytes of Crap

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The furor over infamous whistleblower Edward Snowden continues, but yet the media misses the point entirely: Snowden isn’t the bad guy. The U.S. Government is the bad guy for illegally spying on its own citizens. Snowden merely pointed it out, but he’s not the guilty party.
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July 5, 2013

When a Byte is not a Byte

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It’s with great pride that you bring home that 3TB hard drive. It’s awesome! Three trillion bytes of storage, who could imagine? Then you install the thing and, lo and behold, the operating system reports 2.54TB are available. Huh?
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July 3, 2013

Taking in a Little Jazz

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TuneIn_Radio I’ll be blunt: A tablet makes an awkward camera. I mean, I just feel dorky when I hold up a huge-ass tablet to take a picture or shoot a video. I’m not as uncomfortable using a phone for that task, but tablets? Too big!
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July 1, 2013

When the Rug Gets Pulled

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Google search is free! The Chrome browser is free! Facebook is free! Gmail is free! Cloud services are free! Can you stand all the freedom?
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June 28, 2013

Clean Up Your Desktop!

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I’m referring to your computer’s desktop, not that messy thing awash with papers and Post-It Notes™. You should make it a regular task: Checking out all those itty bitty icons to see which can be banished and which should remain.
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June 26, 2013

Editing the Normal Template

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The Normal template is the document that stores all of Word’s formatting defaults: the font, paragraph, margins, and page size information. It’s used whenever you create a new, blank document. All that stuff can change, but to do so you first need to hunt down the Normal template file and edit it directly. That isn’t easy.
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June 24, 2013

It’s 1996 and This is the Web

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It’s easy to look back and gawk, kind of like watching those films of 1890s inventors trying out their flying machines. It’s curious and embarrassing at the same time.
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June 21, 2013

The Shrinking Cost of Mass Storage

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I can’t understand why I sometimes dither about which mass storage device to buy. The answer is really obvious: Buy the storage with the highest capacity. It’s cheaper. That philosophy may not make sense, but that’s only because you fear the math.
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