On Computers

More than thirty years ago, when you bought a home computer it was to play games. You could write on some — Bob wrote his first book on an Apple 2 — but basically they were used to play games.

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“100 Skills Every Man Should Know” is an article in Popular Mechanics with instructions on how to build a fire in the wilderness, check trouble codes on your car, and so on.

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MusicTheory.net teaches you music theory starting with bass and clef notes and finishing with an analysis of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.

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Mathrun.net has timed math quizzes. Use your keyboard’s left arrow to mark an equation correct. Use your right arrow to mark it incorrect. It starts with very simple arithmetic and goes up from there.

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  Foodgawker.com/popular/favorites lists their most “favorited” recipes. The pictures look good enough to eat. Joy liked the “Spicy Raw Thai Salad.”

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Microsoft Word has lots of keyboard short cuts and here are some of the more useful:

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We’ve always loved the original Kindle’s “e-ink” screen. It’s easy to read in bright sunlight. Now there’s an InkCase Plus” that does the same thing for your smart phone.

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CourseReport.com programmers headclaims that schools and camps teaching programming, often called “coding,” will bring in $60 million in tuition for the year and graduate 5,987 coders, a 175 percent increase over last year. Tuition can cost up to $20,000, with the average around $10,000 for courses ranging from nine to 12 weeks. All in all, this seems expensive to us.

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We’ve used the website “VRBO” (vacation rentals by owner) to rent a house instead of the typical hotel room. If you’ve got a home to rent to others, the website HotSpotTax.com takes some of the tax complications out. We didn’t like the one we rented, but maybe you have something better.

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“The Singing Machine Mobile” is an iPhone/iPad app for karaoke singing. There are 14 free songs to sing along with, with the lyrics showing up on your screen. We tried “America the Beautiful” and a few Beach Boys hits. For Android users, there’s the “Sing! Karaoke” app by Smule.

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