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Understanding Computer Terminology

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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 Some computer specs may be out of date.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 · No Comments

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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Keyboard Shortcuts

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

When viewing a drop down Menu, application commands are aligned on the left-hand side of the menu. On the right-hand side of the drop down menu, there is sometimes a string of symbols and or letters. These are called keyboard shortcuts. Each symbol or letter in a keyboard shortcut refers to a key on the [...]

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Tags: Computer Basics · User Interface