Computing

User Friendly: Beauty rest

Murphy slept in this morning. He missed a chance to start my day in typical fashion.

User Friendly: Recipe for disaster

Norma Sims Roche of Northampton responded to my request for readers' questions with a few that, in her words, she hasn't "found a straightforward answer to."

User Friendly: Soul mates

The other day a friend of mine was shouting, actually shouting out loud about how much he hates, really hates, all the email spam he gets. I told him that I enjoyed mine.

User Friendly: Power outage

A recent computer problem came in the form of a phone call: "Paris, I hope you can help me. My name is Phil. I read your column all the time. My wife and I bought a new computer. I've unpacked it, set it all up, but I can't get it to turn on."

User Friendly: The lost word

I lost a word. I looked in all the usual places, but no luck. I used to know it. It was a good word, too. As I remember, it was a word for an amateur naturalist who records the timing of plant and animal events that are related to the change in seasons. An example helps: someone who writes down every year the date and time that the first crocus appears in her garden.

User Friendly: Spyware infection alert

"Half empty." That's my answer. At least it is this week. I know that over the long haul synchronicity works for us about as often as it works against us, but this week I'm definitely not in the cosmic flow of things.

User Friendly: Clouding the issue

If you've been hearing the term "cloud computing" and haven't been quite sure what that's all about, that puts you on a par with many.

It's a term that's come to us from the description of the Internet as a cloud - not the best of analogies, but one that's been used for some time now.

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