Even though the telephone is slowly succumbing to the forces of email, texting, and Instagram, calling still has its uses. Customer support is one of those major uses, and it comes with a lot of time spent waiting for a prompter to recite the menu. “For billing information, press 1. To see your current balance, press 2. For more options, …
A year ago, I started tracking the mileage on my computer mouse with a handy software called Mousotron. It was very handy to use; just tell it your screen size and it cumulatively tracks how far your mouse pointer moves. Now, exactly a year later, the total is out: my mouse pointer traveled 140 miles and then some:
Back when I was not even 5 years old, the only way to connect to the Internet was via modem. And if you remember all the way back, the modem was far from silent like today’s routers. I always wondered what number the modem dials at the beginning. Doesn’t it sound like a telephone number? Anyways, you can thank me …
It never ceases to amuse and berate me that printers are so terrible at their main job, printing. One of their many shenanigans is failing to ever respond to user commands. Many a time I’ve had a document stuck in the printer queue, and when I go to the print icon in the System Tray to “cancel” the job, it …
Is it really possible? Yes it is. Now of course, you’re probably sitting at your computer or tablet dumbfounded or simply in disbelief, but it’s possible. Let me explain. Before we start, I do have to tell you this: you can’t write text in an email, send it, and change it 5 minutes later. Thats for sure. Even though Gmail …