Author: Lioba Ferreiro
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Sharing a File Without Making It Public
Read more: Sharing a File Without Making It PublicI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students try to grasp the concept of potential energy, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that people…
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Cloud Storage and Offline Files
Read more: Cloud Storage and Offline FilesI spent thirty-four years watching students stare at physics equations like they were ancient hieroglyphics, but nothing quite compares to the blank, panicked look people get when they try to…
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Mobile Browser Settings Worth Changing
Read more: Mobile Browser Settings Worth ChangingMost people treat their mobile browser like a black box—a sealed unit that just “works” until it suddenly doesn’t, draining your battery or leaking your data like a cracked casing.…
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A Laptop for Email and Browsing
Read more: A Laptop for Email and BrowsingI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students stare blankly at spec sheets, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that marketing departments are extraordinarily good…
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Clearing Browser Data Without Losing Logins
Read more: Clearing Browser Data Without Losing LoginsI was hunched over my workbench yesterday, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the tiny, stubborn gears of a 1950s Westclox, when I realized my smartphone was behaving with the…
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Your Phone Is Not Taking One Photo
Read more: Your Phone Is Not Taking One PhotoI spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching students stare blankly at physics equations, waiting for the moment the “magic” finally clicked into something real. People tend to treat modern…
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Optical and Electronic Stabilisation
Read more: Optical and Electronic StabilisationI spent thirty-four years in a classroom watching teenagers stare blankly at diagrams of light refraction, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that marketing departments love…
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A Camera App That Shows Black
Read more: A Camera App That Shows BlackI was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, the smell of isopropyl alcohol and old solder hanging in the air, when my grandson came in complaining that his laptop screen…
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Whether You Need a Tablet
Read more: Whether You Need a TabletI spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students stare blankly at equations, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that complexity is often a mask…
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A Microphone Nobody Can Hear
Read more: A Microphone Nobody Can HearI remember sitting in the back of a high school lecture hall twenty years ago, watching a colleague struggle with a screeching PA system while the students drifted into a…