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Some editors can even spell
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 03/07/2013
» One of our subeditors here at the centre of human Life came up with one complaint and one request that resulted in satisfaction all around. The complaint was that using a word processor like Microsoft Word just to write stories and notes was clumsy, and ultimately slowed her down. But she wasn't aware of a decent text editor that had a spellchecker.
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.
All aboard the apps bandwagon
Business, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/10/2012
» Despite the hardware wars and the multi-billion-dollar lawsuits over operating systems, a 3G phone without attractive applications is not really more useful than an 800-baht mobile with a 1-2-Call SIM.
Swipe away those auto-correct tears with Fleksy download
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/09/2012
» The Qwerty keyboard is 138 years old, and ever since it was adopted, people have been messing with it _ without effect, until now.
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.
Keeping track of photos, safely
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/12/2011
» The end-of-year holidays are all about giving, and I was thinking about giving myself some lovely new photo apps for the smartphone. But more on that later.
IT has the blues
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/09/2011
» Nothing is more important than problems and questions from the world's best readers, so let's start with a couple.
Introducing a sweet new way to sync files with the cloud
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 30/08/2011
» In the year or so that I have been using the phenomenally popular Dropbox software to put stuff in the cloud, I have had exactly the same thought every time I dropped something and every time I picked something up from the box:
Fast file exchanges
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 09/08/2011
» I just ran across a new file-sharing service, so simple that even an adult can use it. Minus.com has virtually no barriers between you and the person or people you want to get your documents, photos or whatever. You drag a file onto the browser page, copy the URL of the file location, and send it to your colleagues or friends.
Don't post it, and they won't find it
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 19/07/2011
» There are going to be a lot of people in just a few years from now who will look back on their social-media fun and go, "OMG, what was I thinking?" Or, to be more exact, "Why wasn't I thinking?"