I’ve been a loyal user of Firefox for years and plan to still use it as my secondary browser (and will use it regularly for Zotero). But Google’s new browser,…
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I’ve been a loyal user of Firefox for years and plan to still use it as my secondary browser (and will use it regularly for Zotero). But Google’s new browser,…
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I posted before about our new phones – HTC Droid Incredibles. Perhaps I’m just trying to justify the purchase to myself, but I’ve figured out a few new tricks with…
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While I’m a major geek and I love technology, I’m also cheap. Ergo, we’ve had the same cell phones for three years: HTC 8125s. They’ve been good phones, but they…
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Thanks to a little surplus grant money, I was able to purchase a nice, large, external monitor for my office. With my docking station, that meant I could use two…
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On Windows, I used the free program Eraser to wipe hard drives when I was finished with them. I looked for a while for something similar for Ubuntu Linux but…
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The Problem: You have a spreadsheet that has a column of what you think are numbers in it. The numbers display fine in their cells, but when you try to…
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I’m not a computer programmer (sometimes I wish I was), so I’m going to guess that implementing the ability to save handouts as PDFs in OpenOffice.org’s Impress (OpenOffice’s version of…
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We periodically watch videos from the internet on our TV. I found a cool piece of software that is getting a lot of attention – Boxee. It’s pretty slick, though…
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I mentioned a while back that I switched all of our computers (currently 5) to Linux (Ubuntu, to be specific). I was committed to making the transition this time and…
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One of the great features of Tivo (and one of the reasons why we won’t switch to a different PVR) is that you can transfer shows to your computer. This…
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