Due to Christmas and New Years there will be…
No Double Click column until January 9, 2018. So make sure you come back and read more then. To all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
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Crazy: 90 Percent of People Don’t Know How to Use CTRL+F – The Atlantic
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page!…
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Meetings in Email
Before I start today’s topic I will answer emails I have received this from a couple of readers. “Are you going to write about which computer I should purchase for Christmas?” Sorry, but no for a couple of reasons. First, I stopped doing this several years ago because they always sounded the same. Next, it…
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Tunnels on the Internet
At a recent speaking engagement, I was talking to the group about security. This discussion was centered on Virtual Private Networks or VPNs. Since 1996 when a Microsoft employee created a secure tunneling system for computers, VPNs have been around. It was not as we know a VPN today; however, it certainly set the process…
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Syncing Outlook & Google Calendars
I wrote about one of Google’s great apps called, “Google Calendar Sync” in 2012. Then in 2013 they did away with it. It was an easy to use add-on for Google that made it easy to sync between your Outlook (usually work related) and Google calendars. That way you could have your business appointments in…
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Thanks Amazon!
So on November 20 I ordered this from Amazon: It was supposed to arrive on Nov. 22. On that day I received an email saying it would be delivered on Friday. I checked the shipping and it was in Richmond in the morning and Michigan that afternoon? Then it went to Connecticut? Friday I received…
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Thunderbird
Nope, I am not referring to a car, a new superhero movie or a cheap wine. I am however talking about one of the better applications out there. It is cross platform meaning it is available for Linux, Windows and Mac computer operating systems. However, at this time it is not available for iPhones or…
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I Do Not Know Why You Would Want To, But…
I thought you may like this neat trick someone showed me a couple of weeks ago. Are you a Google Calendar user, as am I? Do you enjoy keeping track of your Facebook friends’ birthdays? If so this trick is for you. I use my Google Calendar all of the time. I use it to…
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Convert a Picture to Text
There have been times in my computer career when I have had a real need. I do not know about you but I bet you may have had this need too. That is, you have a screenshot or a photo of something with a lot of text printed on it and you would like to…
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Could mobile phone data replace census?
Statisticians experiment with tracking people’s movements to find out about their daily commute. Source: Could mobile phone data replace census?