Smartphones And Money

HP is buying Palm. Synergy! Patents! Engineers! Vision! Innovation! New smartphones computers tablets slates operating systems! Whee! I was idly reading stories about the deal when a sentence jumped out at me from the New York Times this morning. If this is true, it...

FUJITSU SCANSNAP S1500 FOLLOWUP

Last year I wrote critical comments about the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 desktop scanner’s lack of a TWAIN driver. There’s a way around that shortcoming – one of those tips that’s easy when you find out about it but apparently not obvious, since Fujitsu’s Product...

Powered By Pure Sine Waves!

I’ve got Pure Sine Waves! Woo hoo! If you had asked me last month, I would have bet heavily that I would never use the words “pure sine wave” in a sentence. And yet here I am, gloating because I have pure sine waves and you don’t. What an interesting world! The...

Right-Click Your Way To Happiness

I had to grin when I learned that a cool keyboard shortcut was literally right under my nose. Clicking on the right mouse button brings up context menus everywhere in Windows. The right-click menus have been enhanced in the Windows 7 taskbar to display previously-used...

TALES OF WOE: HARDWARE DEPT.

When you tell me about certain kinds of computer problems, I sometimes begin weeping uncontrollably, or excuse myself from the room for a few minutes while I gobble down powerful antidepressants. Let me give you another example to show you why. A law firm wrestled...