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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July 17, 2015Another Windows 10 UpdateThe deeper I get into Windows 10 the more it does some things that irk me. One of them is how you add new users to the PC.
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July 15, 2015Ode to the GamepadMy son wanted to use the Xbox 360 controller on his PC. That makes sense. In fact, quite a few popular games offer that type of device input over using the traditional keyboard and mouse. You can’t plug an Xbox controller into a PC. It doesn’t work. But Xbox-style controllers are available. They come with a USB connector. Plug it in and go, right? Not so fast. July 13, 2015Paid by the LineWhat’s it like to be paid, not by the word, but by the line? I found out the other day. A reader asked how Word could be configured so that it counted all the lines of text in a document because that’s how she gets paid.
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July 10, 2015The Cat Ate My Hard DriveWould it be possible for a cat to march across your desk, lie on the keyboard, and somehow manage to completely erase everything on your computer? Let me mull the possibilities.
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July 8, 2015Hacking the Chrome BrowserI enjoy hacking, although I’ve not always referred to it as such. Back in the day, I called it snooping, and it helped out tremendously when writing some of my early books and magazine articles. July 6, 2015Windows 10 – I Wrote Too SoonJust last week I was extolling the virtues of Windows 10 and O how much I enjoyed it. That was then. July 3, 2015More on Windows 10The Windows 10 beta has been running sweetly on both my laptop and PC systems. The upgrade has gone so well, I’m seriously impressed. But I do have some concerns about Windows 10.
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July 1, 2015June 29, 2015Gone From the App Store“I swear it’s there,” I explained. “I’m looking on my phone and on the computer’s web browser. I see the app. Click the Install button.” My insistence was pointless. No matter how I tried, my friend just couldn’t see the app. It was frustrating.
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