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5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

May 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Whether you’re an artist, a business owner or just a person with lots of thoughts on lots of subjects, odds are you have a blog. And you very well might have that blog hosted on WordPress, as recent statistics point out that 41.6 million new blog posts are made on the site each month. While the blog-hosting site provides users with a myriad of benefits, the fact of the matter remains that there are some areas where improvements could be made. One such area is that of commenting. Since WordPress was launched in 2003’s more than a decade ago, the site has boasted commenting functionality. The problem? That functionality hasn’t been updated since it was first introduced 11 years ago. If one year is seven years…

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5 Alternatives to Default WordPress Comments

Microsoft’s Touch-First Modern Office Suite Revealed in Documents

May 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

It’s been a year and a half since Microsoft released Windows 8 and its “Modern” interface to the world, but we’re still yet to see a touch-first interface emerge for the company’s Office suite, until now. In what can be only described as a slightly odd move, Microsoft Research has published an extensive document that details the company’s plans for ink-based computing but also happens to show screenshots of what appears to be our first glimpse at a truly touch-first Office interface. The PDF document, which goes into a lot of detail about how Microsoft believes ink based computing should work, shows many screenshots from the main Office products, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel but specifically focuses on how…

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Microsoft’s touch-first Modern Office suite revealed in documents

Why the 90s are Literally Disappearing From History

May 18, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

A man whom it amuses me to call “The Last Stereo-Repairman Hero” rode his motorcycle to my house a couple of months ago. He brought with him a backpack full of tools and electronic parts: a soldering iron, some fuses, a jeweler’s loupe. I had summoned him to work his magic on a turntable and an integrated receiver/amp, legacy hi-fi stereo components that had emerged from a couple of years of storage in a state of severe dysfunction. The local repair shop in Berkeley that I depended on for years for things like this had gone out of business. But their Web page pointed me to Gene, who looked to be pushing 70, but was still doing good business making house calls across…

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Why the 90s are literally disappearing from history

I tried split-screen multitasking on the iPad, and here’s what I discovered

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Sometimes the grass isn’t greener on the other side. Almost from the start, iPad users have begged and pleaded with Apple to add a missing feature: split-screen multitasking. Split-screen multitasking is the ability to run two or more apps simultaneously, side by side, just like you can on a desktop computer. But iOS, of course, is the antithesis of traditional multitasking. You can have only one app on the screen at a time. That may be about to change. Apple is rumored to be adding multitasking to the iPad in iOS 8, which is expected to be shown to developers at next month’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. With split screen multitasking, you could write a paper in Pages on the left while researching in …

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I tried split-screen multitasking on the iPad, and here’s what I discovered

Emory Accidentally Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Have you ever reformatted a computer and then immediately realized you shouldn’t have? Well, an “accident” at Emory University this week will make your mistake look like a brilliant, carefully considered decision. Here’s the crux of what happened: A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentally sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition/reformat set of tasks. As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted. What did we learn today? Always backup. Backup everything. Everything always.

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Emory Accidentally Sends Reformat Request to All Windows PCs