As I noticed that more and more of my relatives had their own personal computers, I began to wonder if carrying my laptop into their homes was really necessary.
When I was going to college, I occasionally thumbed my way down the highway back to my parents’ house for the weekend.
Door-to-door salesmen, postal junk mail, and telephone solicitors interrupting your dinner are just a few of the regrettably famous ancestors of spam e-mail.
What Is Spam E-mail?
Spam e-mail is generally defined as unwanted, and usually commercial, e-mail. Unwanted is of course in the mind of the receiver; you might not be interested in the world’s smallest digital camera, but I might.
Will the use of photo manipulation tools provide false images to future generations who might assume these images were not changed? What are the ethics of modifying family photographs when used as pictorial evidence in our genealogy research?
Some time ago, I received a colorized photo from an online acquaintance.
My family and I had a wonderful experience a few years ago. We visited one of my ancestral cities–Norwich in Norfolk, England. Among other things, we toured the Norman castle. My son enjoyed driving Boudica’s virtual war chariot complete with reins, simulated motion, and video display. In the castle keep, he found the views down to the spooky dungeons fascinating.
Tombstone inscriptions have been a source of genealogical information for centuries. But modern technology has changed the way tombstones memorialize the dead. Gone are the days of name and dates chiseled laboriously by hand. Now, laser sculpting can create personalized tombstones that memorialize the interests of the deceased–including anything from marble motorcycles to granite garden tools.
Technology often provides us with shortcuts designed to improve efficiency. We write e-mail instead of posting a snail mail letter. We search CD-ROM indexes instead of looking in books. We view scanned images on the Internet instead of looking at microfilm.
Technology makes many tasks easier, and the new speeds can be addictive.
The Internet can be valuable property, and protecting it is getting complicated. Here’s how you can help.
I have fat fingers so I tend to make frequent finger fumbles while keyboarding. Ten fingers versus a QWERTY keyboard with over 100 keys is hardly a fair contest, and my typing tends to come out the worse for it. In days of yore, such mistakes were called typos, or typographical errors.
Is technology really the problem behind bad online data, mailing list troubles, and poor communication skills?
If you use DSL or cable modems at home, how do you secure your PC from hackers on the outside?
Anti-virus software may ease our fear of computer viruses, but nothing guarantees security—except backups of our data.
To the informed and prepared computer user, a virus is little more tha n noise on the wires–an annoyance but rarely a disaster. To the uninformed and unprepared, a computer virus can seem like a frightening monster of hideous proportions.
