Life’s Little Mysteries – a Cloudeight Site Pick Let me begin by saying… “In a battle between nature and culture, culture has won by a hair — or lack thereof. That’s the finding of a group of scientists in the Czech Republic. In a new study, they had male participants shave one armpit and let the other grow… Read More »
How’s Your Hard drive? That’s a great question, and one that’s not always easy to answer. To be fair, hard drive manufacturers have vastly improved hard drive reliability over the years both with standard drives and solid state drives (SSDs), Most hard drives these days are S.M.A.R.T. That does not mean the same thing as it does with… Read More »
This Free MS Word and PDF Editor Is Worth a Look We get a lot of questions from readers about converting PDF to MS Word doc, and converting MS Word docs to PDF. Newer versions of MS Word (and most word processing programs in free office programs) and open PDF files and save them as Word Docs. That… Read More »
Windows CleanUp! A Trip Down Memory Lane We had a question sent to us this week by Frank, a Cloudeight subscriber. Frank asked if we still recommend a program we recommended long ago, called Windows CleanUp! So, I rummaged through some old programs and and found Windows CleanUp! – the program that EB & I used to call… Read More »
Grammar Police a.k.a. Grammar Cops & Comma Clout I have long been the target of grammar police and pedantic readers who take me to task for my use — or misuse — of the English language. Someone asked me once, if English was my second language. Obviously not, I retorted, I’ve speaked English since I was bored, decades… Read More »
Missing Money “They say the best things in life are free, But you can give them to the birds and bees, Cuz I want money – that’s what I want. That’s that I want … That’s what I want…” (“Money – That’s What I Want” written by Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford. It became the first hit record… Read More »