Right now, I’m using a three-year old slow as hell laptop with a huge eyesore: the left palm rest has a gigantic black stain on it. That’s not the only one though, the left mouse button on the trackpad has an even worse black streak running across the bottom, and I can feel my keyboards getting grease spots every time …
Over the years, I’ve come to the realization that when Microsoft updates their software, they don’t really update the whole thing. Occasionally, the end user will see something that just doesn’t seem to belong in such a modern version of the software. To illustrate what I’m talking about, let’s dig in to the Windows 8 UI. You’d expect that with …
As a person who would rather use less mouse and more keyboard, I’m constantly on the hunt for keyboard shortcuts. So it is to my delight that there are at least 3 ways of switching tabs: Ctrl+Tab to go forward in the tab bar (wraps around at end), and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to go in reverse, with wrapping around at the end. …
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 …
Perfect pitch is one of those coveted abilities that exists in less than 1 in 10,000 people. In short, it is the ability to identify isolated pitches without a reference note. It is distinguished from relative pitch, where a listener needs to hear a note first to identify other notes. Even then, the beginning musician often struggles with relative pitch, …