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We get (a lot of) letters
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/03/2011
» The email servers have showed a lot of Life in the past couple of weeks.
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?
The leading cleaner gets better
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» You have to clean up your Windows PC. That's not a question, that's a statement. The way Microsoft works, they figure it's fine to leave cra... er, stuff lying around on your disk, accumulating like the trash bin in my editor's office. Except that eventually a cleaning person takes out my editor's trash, and you have no one to work on your personal computer but yourself.
A better YouTube
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 05/01/2011
» A lot of words have been spoken about Adobe Flash over the years, many of them with four letters. Apple's unelected Steve "President for Life" Jobs is notoriously hostile, but others have often said that they put up with Flash only because there's no viable alternative.
Faster launcher
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 17/11/2010
» Macists have long made us envy their Quicksilver applications launcher, a program that is about 38 times better than Finder at locating and starting software, documents, websites and more.
Not the end, but a new beginning
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 05/01/2011
» The Bangkok Post has promised to reveal the sweet mystery of LIFE to the world next week. Part of life is death, and so Post Database must die so that LIFE can go on.
Lots of choices in resizing photos
Life, Wanda Sloan, Published on 18/01/2011
» Last week's column focused quite a lot on why you would want a service or a programme to resize your photos. It's polite, it's convenient and it saves everyone time and trouble.
Getting up close to the screen
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» A valued reader writes with a problem that I suspect is extremely common but gets little attention in the computing mainstream. He asks what he can do when he can't read teensy-weensy type on his screen.
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.
Internet site of the Week
Database, Wanda Sloan, Published on 01/12/2010
» Splashup made me feel, just for a few moments, like one of those old people caught with the DVD on fast reverse to rewind it to the start.