The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was a fascinating and entertaining history of the progression of the computer and related things, such as the Internet. I learned a lot and I'm glad I did. Isaacson starts …
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Review: Windows 8.1 widens gap with older PCs - Yahoo! News. "So, instead of bringing back a familiar environment, the revived "Start" button is mainly just another way of directing you to the new one." That seems to defeat the purpose, doesn't it? I have a Windows 8 machine and I don't understand the fuss. …
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I'm so ticked at manufacturers of external (backup) hard drives made for Macs! All I want is a portable hard drive to back my system up on. Is that too much to ask for? Macs have Time Capsule, but it's not really portable, and even though it does backups, it's more of a wireless router. …
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Reader Steve Carter would like his deleted files to be really, really gone. He writes: How do you delete a file completely and forever? I thought the original still remains on the hard drive until it is overwritten. And is there a way to go back and permanently erase old previously deleted files? We’ll start …
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