I’ll confess that the USB standard has been not only tremendously successful but also quite stable. It’s predictable. And just about everyone has enough USB cables available to make any sort of connection.
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August 10, 2015USB Connector Roundup
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August 7, 2015Porn on the Early InternetI’ve read statistics that say up to 36 percent of all Internet traffic is consumed by pornography. Curiously up to 40 percent of evening Internet traffic is used by Netflix. Therefore, I calculate that the remaining 24 percent is used by people reading this blog. I might be mistaken.
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August 5, 2015Here it is: 3D PornI’ve written about it before: Each new advance in communications technology is bolstered by pornography: Painting, printing, film, video, the Internet, and now . . . virtual reality.
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August 3, 2015Win10 Battle: The Control Panel v. Settings AppConfiguring a PC isn’t something you plan on doing often. It’s a necessary task, a mundane, administrative chore. And in Windows 10, the go-to place for making settings and changing configurations is . . . well, there are two places. July 31, 2015My Windows 10 Upgrade OrdealOne of the nifty things about the modern computing age is that you don’t have to wait months to read about an operating system upgrade. For example, when DOS 5 came out, the magazines and other material on DOS 5 didn’t hit the shelves for weeks — and most of the early stuff was based on the beta, so it was wrong.
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July 29, 2015It’s Windows 10 DayHere it is! Supposedly, sometime today, all those computers that are scheduled to get the free Windows 10 update will enjoy the potential of the update. I can’t wait! Well, yeah, I can wait. In fact, I will be waiting most of the day. July 27, 2015The Phoney Phone VirusIt freaked me out. I checked my phone, viewing the same web page I just looked at moments before. What I saw on the screen wasn’t what I expected.
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July 24, 2015Why Photo Managers SuckDigital photography is here to stay and along with it, all the digital photos you snap by using your phone or tablet are accumulating faster than George Eastman’s wildest fantasies. The photos just keep piling up and, well, that’s about all anyone does with them.
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July 22, 2015Microsoft Surface Pro 3
It was once a struggle for me to get the high tech equipment I needed to write a book. Today, it’s no longer a struggle. In fact, the only struggle I have is what to do with all this high tech stuff once I’m done writing the book?
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July 20, 2015A SIMless Future
A majority of phones and tablets that access the Internet use a Subscriber Identity Module or SIM card. Its purpose is to provide an ID for your mobile device, one that’s used by a cellular provider to give the device service, a signal, and basically sort your phone or tablet out from the zillions of other phones or tablets. Oh, and it’s used to help with billing. So there’s that. My question is this: Does the mobile device really need a SIM card?
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