At today’s open office-hours, I had two quick questions that served as great reminders that this stuff just isn’t intuitive. First: A laptop that couldn’t see any wireless network, though TaborSpace’s wireless was indeed up and running. Turns out, that Windows for some reason doesn’t bother to tell you that the wireless hardware is disconnected.
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It seems I’ve found myself writing an unintended series of accessibility articles. ( See Your Computer Can Read to You and Make Text Larger) For this article, I have to thank Cathy’s cat and my optometrist. Yesterday, I had my eyes checked. As is usual for such occasions, I had my eyes dilated, and thus
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McAfee has released its list of “The Twelve Scams of Christmas” – the most popular methods to scam unsuspecting folks out of cash or identity information. I’ve added a few comments (in italics) Scam I: Charity Phishing Scams – Be Careful Who You Give To During the holiday season, hackers take advantage of citizens’ generosity
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A S A P Mac & PC Services503 255-2419 As happens often these days, I received an official-looking email today. This one is a helpful warning – or at least appears to be Subject: Watch for errors on Social Security statement Then it helpfully offers to let me check my Social Security statement for errors.
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Ever need to lookup directions to someone’s home? If you use a Mac, you can do it with one click. If you open up someone’s contact card in AddressBook, click on the “work” or “home” label next to the address. Then choose “Map this Address” in the menu that pops up. That’s it! It will
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Windows 7 is now available. 7 promises to be that which Vista should have been, with a smaller footprint. I’m seeing reports that it runs fine on notebooks – those wee little 10″ / 3 pound laptop jobbies. I spoke to a techie this morning who said it ran fine on his relatively ancient 1.6Ghz
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