I joined Facebook nearly two years ago. It was at the urging of a classmate so that we could coordinate our High School Reunion. Just this week, my relationship with Facebook has expired.
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May 12, 2010Facebook, I’m DoneMay 10, 2010AutoText to Quick Parts, Part IIIMeanwhile, back to the original issue of the email I received, what can you do about getting AutoText back in Word 2007?
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May 7, 2010AutoText to Quick Parts, Part IISay you have lots of random bits of text that you need to spew out as you type a document. You can save typing time in Word 2007 by employing an often-overlooked and poorly-named feature called the Quick Part Gallery. May 5, 2010AutoText to Quick Parts, Part II received an email from a Word user who laments the loss of the AutoText feature in Word 2007. That got me thinking . . .
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May 3, 2010Apple’s Gamble: The PC is DeadThe iPad was met with a giant “What” by the tech community. That was followed by Steve Jobs’ unusual and very public criticism of Adobe’s Flash. Blogger Charles Stross thinks that he’s figured it out: The personal computer is dead and Apple is merely preparing itself for the inevitable.
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April 30, 2010Ancient Wambooli HumorWay back in the 1990s, when Wambooli and the web were still young, I concocted a series of bogus advertisements. For a while they appeared on the Wambooli site, and they looked typical of the web advertising back in the day. April 28, 2010Wonderful Funderful Win Key Shortcuts
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April 26, 2010iOops!Last week, Gray Powell went to a bar to celebrate his birthday. When he left the bar, he left his phone. Normally that would just be a sad story, typical of the digital age. The phone Gray left, however, was not just any phone. April 23, 2010The Alt+Keyboard TrickOne sure-fire way to get foreign characters, as well as special symbols, into your text on a Windows computer is to use something I call the Alt+Keyboard trick. April 21, 2010The Binary Side Of -1 + 1 = 0Welcome to a nerdy blog post on how computers deal with negative numbers. I don’t mean numbers with a bad attitude, but rather numbers like -1, -4, and on down to -∞.
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