November 6, 2009

Windows 7 Thoughts

Filed under: Main — Dan Gookin @ 12:01 am

First the bad news: I don’t have a Windows 7 book in the works. Nope, nada.
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November 4, 2009

My Windows 7 Upgrade Story

Filed under: Main — Tags: , — Dan Gookin @ 12:01 am

Yes, I took the plunge. My test computer was stripped of it’s Windows Vista-ness and now has Windows 7 installed. It wasn’t as painful as I was dreading.
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November 2, 2009

Coming Back!

Filed under: Main — Dan Gookin @ 12:01 am

The campaign is almost over; election day is tomorrow, November 3rd. I’ll begin my regular blog posts again here on Wambooli on the 4th.

As before, I’ll be posting Monday, Wednesday, Friday. It will be good to gush on all the high tech goodness that’s happening. See you Wednesday!

August 21, 2009

Hiatus

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

This is going to be my last blog post for a while.
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August 19, 2009

When to Use a Spreadsheet

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

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For years I feared the spreadsheet. Then I saw the truth!
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August 17, 2009

The Mac Tablet

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

The rumors are hot and heavy that Apple will soon be introducing a tablet computer. It’s the point now of “when” as opposed to “if.”
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August 14, 2009

Sending Those Large Files

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

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Nothing beats getting email, unless it’s some bloated message, weighing in at 7MB, which takes forever to receive and, unlike that big present at Christmastime, contains something disappointing. That is, unless you figure out another way to send those large files.
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August 12, 2009

Printing All or Part of a Web Page

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

I spend way too much time in my books describing how to print web pages.
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August 10, 2009

How I Dispose of Hard Drives

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

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The question has been asked, and now I have visual proof of how I get rid of my old hard drives.
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August 7, 2009

Computing in the 1980s, Part VI

Filed under: Main — admin @ 12:01 am

In the early 1990s PC memory management became a huge issue.
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