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Killing WordPad on the QT
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 26/12/2012
» WordPad was always a third-rate programme, and it has been a pleasure to throw it in the virtual dustbin and replace it with a truly excellent and small word processor.
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OCR made more user friendly
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/03/2012
» OCR stands for optical character recognition, and means convert a picture of text into real, computer style text that you can edit, change and save. You can capture a page of a newspaper or a book or a magazine easily enough with a scanner, but all you have is a photo. If you want to search or copy the words on the page, you will have to use an OCR programme.
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Brought back to book
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 09/08/2011
» Thanks to Amazon (and Sony and Barnes and Noble, but mostly Amazon) it is fashionable to read books again. Watching reality TV and snickering at gossip websites is also part of life, but books got a new life and reputation with the Kindle toy for geeks, and its competitors, including phones and tablets.
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Abetter way to read PDFs
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 06/09/2011
» Good-looking is always preferable to repulsive, as every salon operator knows. And an attractive program is simply better than a plain one, given they do the same thing.
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When you need your data, you need your data
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 05/04/2011
» In this mobile world, the editors and other cruel masters of the working classes figure that since we can work all the time, then that's what they want us to do.
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Happy ever after
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 03/05/2011
» Once in a while, along comes a computer program that translates to the "device world" of phones, tablets and so on, that is as simple as it is useful.
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The leading cleaner gets better
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» You have to clean up your Windows PC. That's not a question, that's a statement. The way Microsoft works, they figure it's fine to leave cra... er, stuff lying around on your disk, accumulating like the trash bin in my editor's office. Except that eventually a cleaning person takes out my editor's trash, and you have no one to work on your personal computer but yourself.
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Getting up close to the screen
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» A valued reader writes with a problem that I suspect is extremely common but gets little attention in the computing mainstream. He asks what he can do when he can't read teensy-weensy type on his screen.
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Our converging social e-life
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 27/10/2010
» Remember "convergence"? Remember when everything you owned was going to converge into one, and you would only need one little piece of hardware to do, well, everything but make a decent khao thom for breakfast?
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Everyone take note...
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 06/10/2010
» Notes manager or information manager or personal data manager, call it what you may. Most computer users need one.
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