Don’t sweat it: The latest Android update is more of a maintenance release than anything else. If it’s available for your mobile device, then you’ll see an update notification, otherwise it’s nothing to worry about.
Android 4.4.4 upgrade screen.
June 26, 2014June 25, 2014Supreme Court Victory For Smartphone UsersThe US Supreme Court has ruled that your cell phone cannot be searched by the authorities without a warrant. This decision is a victory for privacy advocates and those of us remaining who still understand and appreciate the 4th Amendment.
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Wee Li’l Icons All in a RowIt started out as the Status Bar. Some Windows veterans may still refer to it that way, but somewhere along the line the name changed: Notification Area. It’s that spot on the far right of the Windows taskbar that overflows with teensy icons — or not, depending on how it’s configured.
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June 23, 2014More Word Table CalculationsAlthough it’s a word processor, Word has Excel-like formulas you can slap down into a table. These formulas assist you with mathematical puzzles that would otherwise be daunting.
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June 20, 2014I’ve Never Filled Up a Hard Drive
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June 18, 2014Word Table MathAs long as I’m on a table binge with my Wamblog Word posts, here’s another trick you can pull inside a table: Math. Yeah, it sounds scary, but keep in mind that it’s the computer that does the math. You just need to know how to set up a formula inside a table.
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June 16, 2014Serious Cyber SecurityRecently, I went to a fairly sizable dot-com operation to lend my talents. You’ll read more about my adventures in the future. For now, I’d like to discuss something fascinating that happened during lunch one day. June 14, 2014What Happens when Driverless Cars CrashWell, it’s a mess, of course, but when a driverless car crashes, whose fault is it? Obviously, software has made a decision, seeing that no human powered the vehicle. Can that software be sued? And what about the moral implications of a decision-making during a collision?
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June 13, 2014The Power of Word’s Sort Command
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June 12, 2014Zoom in on a Microchip (Video)
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After installing what seemed like a flood of new software on my main computer, I dutifully checked the hard drive capacity. Yep: I was still well under 50 percent.
The icon looks innocent enough. It’s featured prominently in the Table Tools/Layout tab. But it also has a tiny twin in the Home tab’s Paragraph group. It’s the Sort icon.