Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Showing posts with label software. Show all posts

Showing posts with label software. Show all posts

Monday, December 26, 2016

Don’t underestimate the ingenuity of an annoyed user

On November 29, 2016 in the Shark Tank blog at Computerworld there was an amusing story titled Never EVER underestim...

Saturday, December 3, 2016

A bad way to make passwords secure

On November 23, 2016 the Computerworld website had a SHARK TANK article with a software horror story titled Now THA...

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Please don’t change the defaults on my web software without asking me

I have an ancient free Hotmail email account (that Microsoft currently calls Live.com) which I use almost solely ...

Friday, December 25, 2009

Improve your public speaking with iUmmm?

One of the sillier iPhone apps is a filler-word counter called iUmmm . If you were looking for an inexpensive stocking-stuffer gift for some...

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

How to turn a newspaper column into trash by reformatting

Today the American Reporter, which is an online newspaper, reran an old humor column by Erik Deckers from the week of October 31, 2003. It ...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Joy of software: What you see may NOT be what you get

We are all used to software claims that “What you see is what you get.” The long acronym for this feature is WYSIWYG (pronounced wizzi-wig)....

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Richard I. Garber: This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. From July 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President Public Realtions for Saint Al's Toastmasters. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc. Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science. His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com

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