Where are the huge tablets? Trust me, they’re coming! Tablets may be popular today in the 7- to 10-inch size range, but eventually I see huge tablets appearing on the market. That will be a great choice for people who have trouble seeing a tablet’s tiny text. Until then, you can adjust text size on your tablet to something more readable. It’s cinchy.
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February 22, 2013My Android, What Big Text You Have!
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February 20, 2013The Desktop ScreenshotEvery so often, I snap a picture of my Windows computer desktop. That may seem weird and dismissible, but I have a valid justification. Not only that, every so often I have to remind myself to do it. February 18, 2013My First All-NighterIt was Monday night. My deadline was Wednesday. If I finished by 5:00 PM Tuesday, the publisher would have the manuscript at the deadline.
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February 15, 2013Watch That Mobile Data!My Droid Bionic, which I loathed and wrote about here, finally died. It just kept turning off and on, starting at about 3:00 AM. Finally, I yanked the battery, and vowed to head to the Verizon store to get a replacement.
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February 13, 2013The MemeMeme is an old word, though it’s recently been applied to the Internet pop culture. Specifically, a meme today is an Internet theme, a picture, or saying, or something that gets beaten into our everyday digital life. February 11, 2013Going IncognitoThere you go on the web, visiting site after site. And following you like a wake behind a boat is the digital detritus of the Internet: Cookies, trackers, and other online evidence of your visit. That stuff can come back to haunt you, unless you take advantage of various privacy features found in modern web browsers.
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February 8, 2013Desktop Site / Mobile SiteMaybe you know this tidbit, maybe you don’t, but most websites have a split personality.
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February 6, 2013Deal With That EThis is a topic that bugs me, not only as a technology nerd but as a writer. How do you deal with the E, that ever-present E that prefixes technology terms as if English were somehow Hungarian and employed word prefixes. What. The. Heck?
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February 4, 2013Which Android Version?The whole version thing has really become obsessive. Even in the old days, before versions were given cute nicknames (thank you, Apple), people were aware of which software version they had. Today it’s become obnoxious.
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February 1, 2013I Miss Microsoft GadgetsWay back when, my observation was that Windows Gadgets were a weak attempt to copy the Widgets feature form the Mac OS X Dashboard. The Dashboard feature was introduced with OS X 10.4 “Tiger” back in April of 2005. Gadgets, officially known as Microsoft Gadgets, were introduced with the Windows Sidebar feature in Windows Vista, January 2007. Copy. Cat.
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