Curtis Jerry Smothers - Freelance Blogger/Tutor
A representative portfolio of articles about personal computing
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Computers are my life. When I'm away from my MacPro, I'm usually attached to my MacBook. When the MacBook heats up and burns my lap, I either get a pillow or reach for my iPhone. Computers and I go way, way back to the days of tape-fed automatic word processors, double floppy disk Cado computers and the venerable TRS-80 pioneers from Radio Shack. I know MS-DOS operating system programming, but I stopped worrying about computer languages when graphical interfacing with a mouse took over from the C-prompt. I'm thinking of having my tombstone crafted in the shape of a computer monitor.
Run your cursor across the images below for a sampling of the hundreds of articles I published at Helium.com under my pen name of Jerry Curtis.
There are two types of computer users: (1) those who have lost files, and (2) those who will lose files. Read this article on recovering a computer file, and for God's sake start backing up your work!
Hello! Are you listening? Back up your stuff. Here's an article on what's out there (and in there already on your computer) to safeguard your work.
Read all about Microsoft's subscription office software. Pay a monthly subscription and get access to applications and storage.
Say what? Why would any self-respecting Mac user want to give his beloved Mac a frontal lobotomy? OK, calm down. There are some Windows programs that won't work at all on the Mac and we often need to get to them. Read this article on how to give your Mac a split personality.
Thinking about making the switch from the Windows PC to the Mac OS? Read on
You probably didn't know that FileMaker was a database and that you could use it on both Mac and Windows. (You may have not even cared, so snap out of it!) I've used Access, and it's a great database platform as well. Read all about both in this article.