Have you ever hit a “Send” button in your email only to notice in a last minute that you forgot to attach a document, misspelled a simple word or just changed your mind all together? It’s been a few months, I think, since Google has added a new feature in its arsenal of email [...]
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Every Monday, when I get my San Francisco Chronicle, first thing I do, I open a “Technology and Business” section and read a column by David Einstein “Computing Q & A”. I always find something I didn’t know I need to know, and I am always happy to discover some new information: what is a cloud computing, [...]
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If you already know all about “Photoshop” and how to use it, you probably, won’t get too exited from the news, that today Adobe announced a public beta version of Adobe Photoshop Express. As for those of you who are wondering how to make a color photograph look black and white, a photo to [...]
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What is it? Telematics is the computer and electronic technology involved in our cars. Why are the sales of electronics for your car expected to rise 12 percent this year? If you need to find an answer to this, read an article: Car Electronics Increase. How Does it Work? How many times, upon seeing [...]
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Ever since I started my blog, to the greeting “How are you?” I reply “Great, thanks. I got myself a blog!” Too often the response is silence and a very slow: ”A what?” and then I get myself an attentive listener. I found out that while many of my friends are using computers at work, [...]
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Please, learn a new word: W00t. It’s a Word of the Year 2007. Here is the correct spelling of the word: W-zero-zero-T. “W00t,” a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness, topped all other terms in the Springfield dictionary publisher’s online poll for the word that best sums up 2007. [...]
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Today, I’d like to add some more information to complete my post (on Nov. 27) about dictionaries. As I’ve mentioned, Miriam-Webster’s OnLine Dictionary can be installed on your browser’s tool bar, or rather under it. The bar contains M-W Dictionary, Thesaurus and Word of the Day buttons. Every time you need to look up a word, [...]
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“Connect words with images and find the name of the whatchamacallit on the tip of your tongue with Merriam-Webster’s Visual Dictionary.” This is an exerpt from the great article I found today at lifehacker.com. The dictionary has 20,000 words with contextual definition and 6,000 color images for variety of objects. Now you can find [...]
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