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Some help with PDFs
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 29/11/2011
» There always are new developments on the web, and for me the most welcome new big thing is what they are inevitably calling web apps.
The need to defrag
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/11/2011
» There are plenty of experts, real and imagined, who argue against defragging. They claim that hard drives these days are so fast, so dependable, so resilient that a minute spent defragging is a minute less you have to live life.
Aid to finding stuff
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 15/11/2011
» The great thing about computers is that they never forget, which is almost the direct opposite of humans. The great thing about humans is that they always know what they want, which is often very difficult to transmit to the computer.
Looking for torrents?
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 18/10/2011
» Several readers have written in the past couple of months to say that a favourite utility to search for torrents has died, and to ask for a replacement.
The clean-up controversy
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 11/10/2011
» So the music has ended, and there is actually competition for the apres-disco rice-soup slurping benches with the laptop plug-in ports that line Ratchada. And as our party of seven is getting the khao thom orders straightened out, here comes the first email of the day, apparently from someone at one of the benches, maybe across the 3:30am road.
What time is it everywhere in the world?
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 11/10/2011
» If you need to or want to keep track of the time for two, six, or 14 locations around the world, may I recommend a very light, attractive way to do it?
You deserve a break today
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 04/10/2011
» There are a number of excellent utilities around that force the user of a personal computer to stop working. And all I can say is _ use one.
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.
The ultimate trip planner
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 27/09/2011
» I have been giving a multi-talented app called Tripit a good workout lately _ "multi-talented" because it does a lot, and it does it on pretty well every smartphone, plus the web on your PC.
Beats Facebook
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 20/09/2011
» Facebook is great, Twitter is good. But there are times when having the whole, entire world looking in on your conversations with friends seems a bit much, if not overwhelming.