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A photo album for emailing
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 29/05/2013
» Sending photos is probably the most popular activity among separated family members, probably even ahead of actually writing updates about life in Thailand and wherever the others are.
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.
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.
Deleting for good
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 13/12/2011
» Pretty well everyone knows by now that deleting a file on a PC is a misnomer, and the file stays right where it is. The operating system just makes the space available to put another file on top of it.
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.
Keeping tabs
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 14/06/2011
» Somehow I have gone through several years without learning about Office Tabs for Microsoft Office, one of the most useful utilities I've ever seen. Useful, that is, to anyone using Microsoft Office for Windows. Sorry Mac people and cloud people and the rest ... Sorry Open Office people and Softmaker people and the like.
Uninstall should mean forever
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 12/04/2011
» Time was, when you wrote a software review, you had to describe the installation process. It was a notable, rare pleasure when "installation went as described". More often, a reviewer had to detail how to install a program before getting on with the workings of it.
Super organiser
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 08/03/2011
» Remember when the pace of life was a lot easier, and we had maybe a couple of appointments a week and one meeting a month?
Better ways to manage files
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 25/01/2011
» Microsoft is a maddeningly schizophrenic company, which makes some of the best and some of the worst designed software in use on any system, on any PC, on any continent on this planet.