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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.

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    Apps becoming a new tech revolution

    Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 24/01/2012

    » The phrase "killer app" is from the old, long-gone 20th century, but it probably ought to be revived. The spreadsheet and the word processor is what got the world going on the technology revolution, but it is the compact software on a phone or tablet that is driving the tech age now.

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    Pick your browser

    Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 04/10/2011

    » The end of the PC is supposedly at hand, but for most of us _ even then _ it will still be the year of the browser.

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    Tame and change PDF files

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010

    » If you want to do anything with completed PDF files, you are usually in trouble. They are a handy way to distribute formatted and attractive information to people with various types of computers, but they are not meant to be changed.

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    Tweak to make the PC truly yours

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 30/06/2010

    » For the past 10 years, if you were truly serious about tweaking your personal computer, there was one program at the top of your list. I actually reviewed it back at the turn of the century, when the authors were trying it on the Windows 98 operating system, but I didn't mention it much after it became shareware and thus commercial in 2005.

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    A simpler Zip utility

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 30/06/2010

    » Recent versions of Windows have built-in support for Zip files, but it gives new emphasis to the adjective "basic". Unless you almost never encounter Zip files, you need something else.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Mighty mouse

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 10/02/2010

    » It's not true that the world consists only of keyboard people and mouse people, because almost every computer owner these days uses both ways to communicate with her blasted machine.

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    Synchronise your data

    Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 03/02/2010

    » My hard disk crash chronicled here last week made me miss a Database deadline, but these blasted machines are capable of making your life much more difficult than that.

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