Sorry about missing Monday’s blog post. I was out of town. Specifically, I was in a town where they offer 4G LTE service.
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April 13, 2011Life in 4G Land
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April 8, 2011Sometimes I Just Hate TroubleshootingEager to play a game yesterday, I decided to click the Stop button when performing a Windows update. Big mistake. April 6, 2011Áccènts gâlôrëYou have a keyboard. You have Word. How do you get those accented characters even though they don’t appear on the keyboard?
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April 4, 2011Cell Phone Acronym Mania!I thought the days of explaining technology acronyms was long gone. April 3, 2011The 30th Anniversary of the Osborne IThe dawn of the portable computing era was 30 years ago today. The Osborne was truly a revolutionary computer, very popular, well-priced — and doomed! April 1, 2011Oh Lord: April FoolsI’m not a big fan of April Fools, which is an especially popular day for computer nerds. March 30, 2011The Real Dr. Ruth – Gookin InterviewAbout a month ago, I wrote about an upcoming Internet radio interview. It’s about the 20th Anniversary of the For Dummies books. Tomorrow is the last, final, we’re-done interview. The guests are Dr. Ruth and myself.
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March 28, 2011Control the Keyboard with Control KeysA long time ago, computer keyboards had some nifty shortcuts. If you were adept with your left pinky finger, and didn’t mind cluttering your head with useless trivia, you could forgo keys like Tab, Backspace, Escape, and Enter.
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March 25, 2011MySpace 10 Million Users LighterPoor Tom. He’s losing friends faster than Muammar Khaddafi. MySpace is not the big deal it once was. Soon, Facebook will not be the big deal it once was. New social networking sites appear every week. I’ve said it before: Someday Facebook will be as trivial as AOL is today. March 23, 2011The Amazon App StoreOpen competition for your apps? What is that! The free market in action? Can’t be Apple, of course. Must be Android! |