So, I know this is not revolutionary or anything, but it turns out there is an Android app that allows you to manage your WordPress blog from your phone. I imagine iPhone users are saying, “Duh. We’ve had this for fifty years already!” Anyway, here’s a QR code for the Android WordPress app. Well, since [...]
I finally cut the cord and have moved to “the cloud” for my email needs. Here’s how I got there. I’m a longtime user of Microsoft Outlook, since I’m well accustomed to it after years of use with various employers. It is relatively easy to use, not too badly organized, and has a few nice [...]
Yesterday morning, I left the laptop with about 5 hours to go to complete the Wubi installation. I didn’t count on my Father-in-law coming over three hours later, using the laptop, and closing it – thus hibernating it. He had no idea (uses my wife’s login) and I was beside myself after 20+ hours invested [...]
OK, I couldn’t let it go. Back to the laptop, I decided to click on the Wubi installer again. One feature I didn’t mention is that it’s able to resume a cancelled installation. So it picked up again at about 24%. It’s also downloading at twice the speed it was this morning. Of course, zero [...]
Well that was unsatisfying. I tried the download on my little-used desktop after clearing 12.5 GB of space on it, and the downloads were similarly snail-ish. I killed it. I’ll dig on the Wubi site later, perhaps. But for now I quit. No Ubuntu for me today!
