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Don’t get bogged down by blogs… A web log, known as a “blog,” is much like a diary or journal entry except blogs are shared with the world rather than kept to yourself. A blog’s creator is a “blogger.” Consider me your personal blogger.

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Tech Surfing

It’s bad enough when something goes wrong with the computer, but then when its compounded by an awful experience with a phone tech support person…well, it’s almost more than any one person should have to endure. In an earlier article (Tips on Tech Support) I gave suggestions about how to best take advantage of a […]

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Tiptoeing Around Bad Typing

I am not ashamed to admit that I don’t know how to type. I have all ten of my digits, but I’ve typed three books to date with only six of them in use. I call it the Columbus Method – find the key and land on it. The keyboard on a computer is very […]

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Tips on Tech Support

For me, two of my least favorite things in the world are a visit the dentist and a call for computer technical support. In truth, I always leave the dentist office with clean teeth and no cavities. As for the tech support call, it often ends with the problem easily solved. But it’s the memory […]

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Lower Your Computer Buying Risks

I don’t think of myself as a big risk taker, although I did once jump off a cliff in Spain attached to nothing more than a parachute and a Spaniard. Let me be the first to say it: stupid, stupid, stupid. Buying a computer involves a bit of risk (but no cliff jumping) – it’s […]

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Tidying an E-mail to be Forwarded

Are you receiving a massive number of forwarded e-mail jokes, petitions and chain letters? I know I am. What frustrates me more than an inbox full of impersonal forwarded e-mail is when those e-mails require me to scroll down and down and down before I get to the actual content, revealing incomprehensible routing information and […]

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