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Taming Office 2013’s appearance

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:00:11 +0000

A couple of months ago I upgraded to Office 2013 at work. I liked it, but around the same time, my eyes started burning. I never made the connection, but then last week, when a coworker upgraded, he mentioned his

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Buy as much computer as you need

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:00:10 +0000

Veteran IT journalist Guy Wright advises not to buy any more computer than you need. Wright was a prominent Commodore journalist, so he’s been thinking this way for literally decades. I grew up reading the magazines he edited in the

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Tips on buying used stuff

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:00:43 +0000

I just found a Lifehacker piece on buying used stuff without getting ripped off. I have plenty of experience in this area. The key, I think, is to deal in person, and test as much functionality as you can before

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Review: Insignia NS20EM50A13 monitor

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:02:59 +0000

My 15-inch Dell LCD died this weekend. Its date of manufacture was October 2001, so I can’t complain. I bought it used a number of years ago and paid a pittance for it. It had been acting up for more

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How to clean your LCD monitor or TV cheaply and safely

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:55:05 +0000

I found a nice trick this week. If those microfiber cloths that came with your LCD monitors and TV(s) have all wandered off, you can use a dry eraser instead to clean your LCD. They’re bigger, so they’re easier to

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Caveats with LCD flat-panel monitors

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 22 May 2005 17:55:30 +0000

I just took a phone call from someone who bought an LCD flat-panel and couldn't figure out why it looked so great in the store but was purely horrible on his PC at home.

He ran into a bunch of problems that some might instinctively avoid but to others would be much less than obvious.

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