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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.
Clocking share activity
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/09/2012
» There are two kinds of people in the world ... and the other kind simply can't do without stock-market reports.
The Olympics in your hand
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 24/07/2012
» You may have heard that the Olympic Games begin late on Friday (or early Saturday if you are that kind of person).
Editing your own ringtone is simple
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 29/05/2012
» I could never grasp buying a ringtone, no matter how spiffy, but there is really no excuse for throwing money at this. Fried Cookie's Ringtone Maker couldn't be any simpler at cutting a ringtone of 30 seconds or less out of any song or audio sound bite.
Shooting is such fun
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/04/2012
» I have been involved for a while with a few projects where screenshots are required for illustration. This is a standard these days in the technology field, whether for digital books or dead trees.
Proxy apps for smartphones
Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/03/2012
» A recent column on proxy programmes for computers got a response and a lot of questions, especially, what about my phone?
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.
I said, 'stop following me'
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 28/02/2012
» There is this company in central Bangkok, one of the biggest employers in the country, and all it does is to assign young men and women to follow thousands of citizens and make detailed notes about them.
Access blocked sites
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 28/02/2012
» I just can't think of any reason why a person might want to look at internet pages that have been blocked by authorities who know much more than the rest of us about what we should see.
Put a little light on the subject
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 14/02/2012
» There's a US keyboard being pitched mostly in TV adverts of a large-character device that glows in the dark, so when the sun goes down you can continue working and still see your keyboard.