No, I haven’t stopped blogging. I just finished a major update that consumed most of my time. Starting my day at 7:00 AM and being up until 11:30 PM didn’t allow me much time to update my blog. Sorry.
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\nNow, just in time for better weather, I have time!<\/p>\n
Let me touch upon some popular topics:<\/p>\n
Apple.<\/strong> Wow. What non-news at the recent World-Wide Developer’s Conference. Apple introduced some new stuff that, thanks to a sophisticated rumor mill, everyone already knew about. Yawn. Even Apple’s stock took a dive, though I think that has more to do with questions about CEO Steve Jobs’ health than the health of the company.<\/p>\n Microsoft.<\/strong> They bought Skype! Now the question is, how can Microsoft transform a useful program into something that everyone can universally despise? I’m serious. Look what they did to Hotmail! In my opinion, Microsoft doesn’t understand the consumer. Either that, or their internal management structure is so screwed up that they just can’t do any better.<\/p>\n Tablets.<\/strong> I’m excited about the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Everyone pretty much knew that the original Galaxy Tab, on which I wrote a book Samsung Galaxy Tab For Dummies<\/em>, was kind of a beta test. Granted, I like my Tab. It comes in immensity handy for when I’m in waiting rooms or traveling across the country. It saw more action than my laptop on my last trip. Anyway, I hear tremendously good things about the Tab 10.1. It’s supposedly out next month.<\/p>\n The Mac Virus.<\/strong> Oh, I just can’t stop laughing. I’m not laughing because the Mac boasts that it doesn’t get viruses, it’s because people don’t understand the entire virus things. Computer security is pretty good these days, on both Mac and Windows. So the only way a virus is getting into your computer \u2014 Mac or PC \u2014 is for you to invite<\/em> it in. Mac users can suffer from Human Engineering just as well as PC users.<\/p>\n What was surprising about the Mac Virus episode was Apple’s initial denial. Then again, my hat’s off to Apple for at least answering the phone. I do occasionally hear from someone who actually speaks to someone at Microsoft Tech Support. But most often what you get from Microsoft is, “That’s a printer issue, call HP.” Oh, I love<\/em> that!<\/p>\n Laptops.<\/strong> Saw a laptop the other day that claimed a 40-hour battery life. Holy poop! That’s longer than my cell phone lasts! Is that common these days? Even so, I figure the 40-hour boast is probably equal to 20 hours of uptime, if that. Maybe the thing doesn’t have a screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, I haven’t stopped blogging. I just finished a major update that consumed most of my time. Starting my day at 7:00 AM and being up until 11:30 PM didn’t allow me much time to update my blog. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2937\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}