Yes, I have a smartphone. Yes, I can receive text messages. I may not reply right away, but I get them. So why do various friends and associates see fit to send a text message to my email account?
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July 31, 2017Texting an Email Address
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July 27, 2017“Hello, Tech Support?”Terrible computer manuals are how I started my career. I knew I could do a better job, and I did. And today, while computer books are barely hanging on, the manual is a thing of the past. No one even considers “the manual” when they refer to technology. Is tech support next? July 24, 2017What the Big Deal with Excel?The first big, breakthrough computer program was VisiCalc. No one expected it to hit the big time. The concept is bizarre genius. Even today, nearly 40 years after VisiCalc was first coded, the spreadsheet remains a hot topic of necessity and confusion. July 20, 2017Pick One: A Flying Car or Your SmartphoneI traveled back in time the other day. It was 1982, and I met up with my younger self leaving work. I had only a few temporal moments to interact, but younger-me dominated the conversation. He asked the immediate and obvious question, “Are there flying cars in the future?” July 17, 2017Living with the ScourgeThe notion of a spam-free email inbox is something I’ve no longer considered within the realm of possibility.
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July 13, 2017ISP Services and the “Three-Fer” OfferI use my cable subscription for Internet only. The company should know this by now, yet they keep flooding my mailbox with their three-fer offers of Internet, TV, and Phone for a low-low price.
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July 10, 2017How to Hold Your PhoneThe topic is human interface design. It’s a skill required to introduce some gizmo, tool, or what-have-you to a random human being and have that human instantly know how the sucker works.
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July 6, 2017Track Changes ResearchLate last year, I was hired to do some research on Microsoft Word. Not the current version, but Word 2003. It was the last major revision of Word before the 2007 update, which brought the Ribbon interface to Office and lots of angst to various users.
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July 4, 2017Buh-Bye, Yahoo
Of all the early search engines — and I’m referring to the mid-1990s, before Google and Facebook — Yahoo survived. It beat out Lycos and Webcrawler, and a host of other early Web search engines. |
