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Real-life use of 3G
Business, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/10/2012
» If you just returned from a long trip to outer space, then you may not know there's a big election campaign under way in the US. Or just how heavily ``smart devices'' are involved.
Music app worthy of note
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 24/01/2012
» Midi Sheet Music is not going to take the computing world by storm, but this excellent music utility does reveal something about the direction technology is headed.
Tuesday is the new Wednesday
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/02/2011
» The new face of technology coverage has piqued the interest of kind readers in the past couple of weeks. I want to get to a few of the many emailed letters, for two reasons.
Not the end, but a new beginning
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 05/01/2011
» The Bangkok Post has promised to reveal the sweet mystery of LIFE to the world next week. Part of life is death, and so Post Database must die so that LIFE can go on.
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.
A new idea to speed up the Windows start-up
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 02/06/2010
» Ask the geeks in the IT Department how to make your computer boot faster, and they'll talk until your eyes glaze over about MS-Config and ticking boxes, and then scare your ears off with tales about how the slowness is probably because you have a virus anyhow.
Petite and sweet
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 21/04/2010
» It is extremely humbling to be a Database columnist temporarily (or, I suppose, permanently) sidelined. The email enquiries have been somewhat overwhelming.
An editor worth a try
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/03/2010
» The open-source boffins have put out a new version of Notepad++, which many computer users consider the single best editor ever made for a Windows computer, at any price.
To defrag or not to defrag - it's not even worth a debate
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/02/2010
» If you ever find yourself wedged between two geeks at the few benches with laptop outlets at the apres-disco khao thom places after a night at Ratchada, there are several ways to get a good, er, discussion going that you can soon tune out.