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Ray Bradbury And Dark Carnival
The best time to read Ray Bradbury stories is when you are thirteen years old. The second best time is right now. When I was 13, I read The October Country, a collection of some of Bradbury’s earliest published short stories. When I was 14 and 15 and 16 and every age...
Redundancy, Backups, And Redundancy
You’re all doing backups. Good job! (You’re not doing backups? Pfft. That’s just foolish. Call me – don’t put it off, just call me.) Let’s go through the backup strategies that...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And The Steam Platform
On 11/11/11, a new game will be released that has a lot of people panting in anticipation. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the latest game in a series that goes back to the dawn...
Setting Up Google Apps For Business
Google Apps For Business is a suite of Google applications customized for small businesses. Everyone in the business gets a domain email address and access to a smorgasbord of...
Law Firms In The Cloud: NetDocuments
Previously: Law Firms In The Cloud: Credenza Law Firms In The Cloud: Rocket Matter Until now very small law firms have seldom used a true document management system, but even the...
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5: Are You Feeling Lucky?
Previously: Speech Recognition And Dragon NaturallySpeaking For two weeks I’ve been writing e-mails and articles by speaking out loud into a microphone, using Dragon...
Speech Recognition And Dragon NaturallySpeaking
I’m about two weeks into one of the more amazing experiences I’ve ever had with a computer. I don’t say that lightly; over the years I’ve had a lot of amazing experiences with...
Law Firms In The Cloud: Rocket Matter
Rocket Matter is one of the most likable online services for small law offices. It handles case management, timekeeping, and billing in clean, well-designed screens presented in...
Law Firms In The Cloud: Credenza
Small law offices have had few appealing options for case management and billing in the last few years. The only choices have been old warhorses that are showing their age badly,...
Three New Lightweight Notebooks
Attentive readers will recall that a new platform for thin and light notebooks was announced by Intel a couple of months ago. The first Ultrabook notebooks are hitting the market...
New iPhone, New Android Phones, New Windows Phones
A new model of phone has been introduced roughly every day in 2011 but none of them have been very interesting. Until now. Let’s take a look at three big developments in the...
Dropbox–Tech’s Hottest Startup
Previously: Sync Files With Dropbox Dropbox For iPad, Android Dropbox, Androids, And Security Dropbox Updated To Version 1.0 Sharing Files With Dropbox Dropbox is profiled in the...
Improved Wireless Performance And Range With Cisco Business Products
Recently I set up a Cisco RV220W wireless router, and a Cisco WAP4410N wireless access point. They are part of Cisco’s small business line and cost roughly twice as much as...
Operating System Market Share Might Be Different Than You Think
Apple’s brilliant success since Steve Jobs returned in 1997 has made it the largest company in the world by almost any measure, with a market capitalization that exceeds...
PayPal Messages Cause Outlook To Hang
This is likely to be a short-lived problem but perhaps knowing about it will help a few of you avoid some anguish. PayPal sends email messages about transactions in your PayPal...
Privacy And Geotagged Photos
Many people instinctively protect their privacy. In their minds, it’s not anybody else’s business where they shop, who they visit, what they talk about, or what movies they...