I never expected that the Windows 10 download would ever begin. I had registered for it, but the Windows 10 notification window kept coming up with various excuses, talking about my drivers being out of date, then claiming that because of the automatic log-in, the download would not start. Clicking ‘Tell me more’ never did […]
Tag: computing
The best mouse to buy might be a dead-stock one made in 2005
With the mouse being the culprit on my main computer causing mouse and keyboard to be unresponsive in Windows 7 (I’ve still no idea when Windows 10 arrives and Microsoft has been no help at all), I decided to shop for a new one again. The failed mouse was one I bought in 2012, […]
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Bugs galore: frozen while using Firefox; keyboard and mouse unresponsive when using Windows 7
Last week was an interesting one for computer bugs. Apple took 42 attempts to install the latest Itunes update on one Mac (and that was the good one that normally presents no issues with updates), but, to its credit, once it was done there were no further problems. Windows, however, gave me a few headaches […]
Remember when you could post, comment and like on Facebook? Those were the days
Let’s see: Facebook doesn’t work on Wednesdays and Fridays. Check. Thursdays are OK though. It’s another one of those days where the Facebook bug that began on Wednesday (though, really, it’s been going on for years—including the famous outage of 2013 where what I am experiencing happened worldwide to a large number of users) […]
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Farewell, Manhattan: switching to the Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK Cherry MX Brown
The Cooler Master Storm Quick Fire TK, with white case. On Tuesday, my Manhattan keyboard, for which I gave a glowing review on Amazon, gave up the ghost. I’m not entirely sure why but through its lifetime, there were two things wrong with it: the first was that regular typing wore off the keys’ […]
Je suis Charlie
I was watching France 24 about half an hour after the Charlie Hebdo attack and made the above graphic a few hours later, in support of press freedoms and the victims’ families, and showing solidarity with other members of the media. One friend has made it his Facebook profile photo and I followed suit about […]
What to do when Firefox for Windows Vista displays no text
During the six hours wasted with Ubuntu today (13 would no longer upgrade, so I removed it and decided to start afresh with 14—big mistake, since it would not let me use the same hard drive), I had to open up my five-year-old Windows Vista laptop and upgrade my Firefox. After all, what were the […]
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Where the action is on social media, and it’s not Facebook
I’ve blogged several times about the bot problem that Facebook has, and this is an issue that runs alongside the click farms that operate on the website. One of my groups has over 12,000 members, and it’s a magnet for click farm participants, who target these bigger ones. And when you look through the […]
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What’s at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue again? Maybe Sarah Palin used Google Maps
I see the media are laughing at Sarah Palin when she referred to the White House being at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue. And yet no one laughed at Google in 2009 when it didn’t know what was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Google Maps was new to me then and I installed it. I had […]
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The religiosity of the superbrands
Another friend asked the Windows laptop v. Macbook question on her Facebook today. You can predict what happens next. The cult came by. As with the last time a friend asked the same question. The cult always comes and proclaims the superiority of the Apple Macintosh. And it is a blinding proclamation, of […]