Microsoft tailored Windows 8 for use with touch-screen input. Would you improve your productivity by switching from mouse or trackpad to touch-screen too?
Category Archive: Technology
Visit the Louvre or another gallery and you will see copyists, usually skilled artists making meticulous copies of […]
Q I am trying to network two external CCTV systems so that I can monitor them online. There […]
Whether in spreadsheets, databases, or elsewhere, data and derived calculations can readily let you down. What can you do to detect and correct errors?
Make way for a replacement Turing Test: you can always distinguish between artificial intelligence and a real human […]
A compilation of cock-ups and other misadventures in and by Amazon, in my case, amazon.co.uk.
No matter how much disk storage you have, it just seems to fill up. Compressing little-used and archived items might be a good way to save space. Does it?
Standards like Unicode can be cumbersome when you are working in a remote place trying to build a tribal dictionary. SIL’s Graphite addresses that need.
Disk Utility may seem the most mundane of all the utilities, but together with its command shell partners packs a real punch in several important areas.
There is something satisfyingly recursive about studying the contents of the first writing tablets on the latest of Apple’s tablets.
The Eclectic Light Company 