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Oh, and another tip for a grandparent's computer is to install Google Screensaver (which comes with picasa) and to set it up to show pictures from a shared Dropbox folder. Then so you can update the pictures shown on your mom's screensaver just by adding photos to a dropbox folder
Commented Apr 28, 2012 on Geekatoo, the Geek Bat-Signal at Coding Horror
Geekatoo, the Geek Bat-Signal
To understand this story, you need to understand that grandchildren are like crack cocaine to grandparents. I'm convinced that if our parents could somehow snort our children up their noses to get a bigger fix, they would. And when your parents live out of state, like ours do, access to the Int...
You might want to consider installing logmein free on your mom's computer so you can remote into her computer to fix any other problems (so long as it has an internet connection) https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/
I use this from time to time to fix my mom and dad's computers in the UK from California.
Commented Apr 28, 2012 on Geekatoo, the Geek Bat-Signal at Coding Horror
Geekatoo, the Geek Bat-Signal
To understand this story, you need to understand that grandchildren are like crack cocaine to grandparents. I'm convinced that if our parents could somehow snort our children up their noses to get a bigger fix, they would. And when your parents live out of state, like ours do, access to the Int...
Scott Meyers had an old blog where he detailed some of the issues that confront an author writing technical books targeting different ebook formats. See http://fastwareproject.blogspot.com
This post about how his C++ books looked on kindle may be of interest:
http://fastwareproject.blogspot.com/1999/03/experience-report-my-c-books-on-kindle.html
Commented Apr 11, 2012 on Books: Bits vs. Atoms at Coding Horror
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...
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