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Entries from September 2008

Understanding Computer Terminology

September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off

This article was written in February 2008. Some computer specs may be out of date.
Technology often gets a bad rap for being hard to understand or being far too complicated to use. While there are aspects of technology that are complicated, there are many “common” terms that people will often glaze over because they don’t [...]

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Tags: Computer Basics · Hardware

Learning to Play

September 8th, 2008 · Comments Off

This is a column I wrote for a college newspaper.
Technology is constantly changing. Technology companies are constantly adding new features to their products, but they usually only tout the really exciting ones in their advertising. Many times the instructions for how to use these features is buried in a thick manual or vaguely depicted in [...]

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Tags: Computer Basics

Conversation on the iPhone

September 1st, 2008 · Comments Off

The following is an email conversation that I had with a colleague. His email is in bold, my response follows.
I just saw a commercial for the iPhone, and I wanted to ask you if you own one
No, I do not own an iPhone, but I do own an iPod Touch. (An iPod touch is just [...]

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Tags: New Technology