While sleeping through a lecture recently I roused for just long enough to catch the lecturer saying that “Error messages should not try to be funny or amusing, they should be clear and concise”. This got me thinking about the ever-elusive goal of user friendliness. The concept has changed much over the years with packages [...]
I guess we have all been there at one stage or another. You have been working on an important project, business proposal or even spent days and sometimes weeks writing an academic paper and all of a sudden the file is no longer there and panic sets in. You check your deleted files with no [...]
Small desktop computers are smaller than traditional desktop models. It is a good choice in rooms where space is a problem. With small computers, users get sufficient space to keep other items like extra drives and circuit boards. Small desktop computers are available as slim line models. The computer case is long and wide, similar [...]
I consider lap top computers as one of the best technological conveniences in our modern world. Cell phones, microwaves and all the other gadgets that make my life easier cannot match the usefulness of lap top computers. I have owned several of them through the years and enjoyed watching them get smaller and lighter every [...]
Recently my daughter’s old Pentium III Compaq laptop completely died. This happened near Christmas so her gift list was an easy one. The problem was that I did not want to spend a lot of money. The other problem was that I hated her having a computer. I hated it because I constantly had to [...]
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