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A Sharp way to keep time
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/10/2012
» No doubt, in today's world, you need to know the time in places outside Thailand, and you can only memorise so much.
Don't make PDFs, print them
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 26/09/2012
» It's my very strong opinion that every PC owner and user _ Windows, Mac, Linux, whatever _ should have a virtual PDF converter installed and ready to use, just in case. (And if you have an excellent one, stop reading; come back next week.)
The football fanatic's best friend
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 19/09/2012
» Saturday night is ladies' night pretty well everywhere, for at least nine months of the year. Gentlemen prefer blokes, the ones running around on "pitches". What a shame.
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.