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Most of us who remember the good ole days of MS-DOS and Windows 1.0 also remember the first time we used a mouse with our PC.
Whether it was to control a graphics-intensive game or lay out a document in a desktop publishing program, the power and flexibility provided by the computer mouse quickly became apparent.
Mice have changed quite a bit from the rudimentary devices that we first used back in the day. [Read more…]
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Question from Matthew: I have a Dell laptop that I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Before the upgrade, whenever I would delete a file it went into the “Recycle Bin” where I could recover it later if I wanted to.
But now under Windows 11, all the files that I delete are gone forever and nothing ever gets placed into the Recycle Bin.
How can I fix this? [Read more…]
Anyone can start a blog in a few minutes, but if you want to market an existing business or start a new one with your blog, you’ll need to be more strategic.
In this list of tips for new bloggers, you’ll find the ideas that we’ve found to be the most helpful in professional blogging. [Read more…]
Our present era, like any before it, throws its own complex questions into the economist’s fray: How to balance stability and progress? How to distribute finite resources in a fair manner?
The answers rarely come easily, often revealed only in retrospect. But the journey toward them cultivates an intellectual resilience, and an appreciation for life’s endemic tensions.
Take heart, brave scholar! Even economics essays can reflect a deeper current of creativity, their knowledge-laden paragraphs yielding to flights of candy-striped prose. [Read more…]
Question from Paul: I recently switched my email from another service to Gmail and I have a question that I hope you can answer.
My Gmail inbox shows short previews of the email text beside each email’s subject line.
I’ve found that the previews make the screen look crowded and they are distracting to me.
Can you please tell me how to disable the previews so I’ll see nothing but the subject lines? [Read more…]