On Computers

PUBLISH YOUR BOOK YOURSELF

Posted on October 20th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Barnes and Noble’s new “Pub It!” is a free service that lets you upload and sell a digital version of your book through the Barnes and Noble website, bn.com.

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GETTING LINKED IN

Posted on October 20th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

New career tools on LinkedIn are worth exploring, especially “Company Follow” and “Career Follow.”

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THREE MILLION ELECTRIC CARS

Posted on October 16th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

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WEAR YOUR AIR BAG

Posted on October 15th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

The latest issue of Popular Science has a piece on wearable air bags. They’re being tested on motorcyclists. The magazine also discusses phones that can do electrocardiograms and…

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SKYPE YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS

Posted on October 14th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Call your Facebook friends from within Skype, with the new version 5.0.

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THE SOFTWARE JUNKARD

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Revo Uninstaller helps speed up your computer by removing junk you don’t need.

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME DEVELOPER

Posted on October 12th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Gamustra.com and Kongregate.com have contacts that budding game developers may find useful.

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BACKUP, AND THEN WHAT?

Posted on October 11th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach

Video by Kenny S One of the most famous sculptures from the classical period is “The Dying Gaul,” done in the early third century. Someday we may get “The Dying Computer.” Till then … What is to be done? If your computer dies and you get a new one, what about all those programs that were on the old machine? Are they dead too? Not if you have some good tools. First you need what’s called a “bootable disk:” If your computer won’t start in the normal fashion, insert the bootable disk into the DVD drive and flip the switch; the operating system will find it and start up. Joy keeps a bootable disk in her buggiest computer. It used […]

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