For example, I use a task management system on my computer - can I write an app to make this easier on Glass?
Unfortunately, I've grown increasingly hesitant about relying on BB Maps as my sole navigation option for my trip to Spain, so I've been playing with two other options: an older APK of Google Maps sideloaded from my computer -- it's sluggish, but usable -- and Nokia Here on the BB10 browser.
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All I had in front of me was my ball-and-chain computer, or chores and kids.
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Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.
The shifting user interface is a training nightmare for my non-computer savvy managers.
The delusion involved in the fourth myth may shock many - my computer contains nothing of value.
Lab project, and part of my ongoing curiosity exploring computer-mediated interaction.
From the introduction of user-friendly labels like "My Computer, " through the abortive "Microsoft Bob" project (an attempt to build an extra, easy-to-understand layer on top of Windows -- an interface for an interface, if you will), the software giant has been waging a war to get the geekiness out of its operating system.
My own work in Human-Computer Interaction takes place alongside hundreds of innovative young women under 30.
The final myth is the one that leads to the most pronounced false sense of security - that my make of computer or operating system is not vulnerable to security problems.
Last week I popped over to Palo Alto airport in my Cessna flying carpet, sat in a corner at an ancient IBM computer and took a 60-question written quiz for my private pilot's instrument rating.
My nine-year-old wrote the following just for fun while on our computer.
Read on past the break and you can begin this potentially short, hopefully sweet journey with me, starting with a quick rundown of my test rig (which also happens to be my mission critical work computer) and an anti-climactic revelation about whether, in the end, I ever found the software box I was looking for.
If I can give just one example, as the manager of a computer department, it was essential that my staff were housed in two separate enclosed areas - one for the data preparation and computer operations staff where noise was inevitable, and the second for the systems and programming staff who needed a quiet environment in which to concentrate and create.
But one computer expert is making my dreams of simultaneous blogging-eating-caffeinating sound a bit nightmarish.
The only time I really experience any self-reflection these days is when my computer sleeps and my screen goes dark.
On Saturday I hooked up a scanner to my computer so I could take some of my old-school drawings and add digital effects.
Because I'm also an inveterate saver of computer files, I still have my carefully mapped-out itinerary for the trip, and thus can tell you with certainty that this story took place on Nov. 12, 2001.
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As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
My mother recently got one of those pop-ups on her computer, advising her that her computer system had detected a virus and that she should do a scan.
But I found a different gratitude prompt: I remind myself to be grateful every time I sit down at my computer or laptop (which I do, oh, about 20-30 times a day).
That was proof, he told me, that my computer was sending out the error message that his company had received - and which had led him to call in the first place.
Working in the computer industry, my work is focused on technology that has the half-life of sushi.
Mind you, it is my fault - I made her angry by adjusting a slider on a computer screen.
My test taxes the computer more than a normal user and involves keeping Wi-Fi on, cranking the screen to full brightness, turning off all power-saving features, keeping email retrieval going in the background and playing an endless loop of music.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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It's a hot commodity even to my old-fashioned granny who has never driven a car nor touched a computer in her life.
Fifty-five years ago, my father took a vow to die for his personal computer.
Computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington says my brain could get hacked mid-bagel!
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