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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for December, 2008

Black Screen on Monitor Fix

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

This happened to me twice. Once on my Lenovo and today again on hubby’s desktop. After booting and running the Windows start up screen, the monitor blanks out. Something about analog or digital. I just wanted to shake the monitor into waking up again.
Anyway, with the laptop it was easy since it works with an [...]

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Things I wish I knew before I bought the iTouch. (Sorry, it is just so much easier to say than iPod Touch so I’m going to regress.
1. No wall charger!
After years of buying non-Apple stuff, I never knew the iTouch would come WITHOUT a wall charger. It comes with a USB charger to hook up [...]

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Why I Bought the iPod Touch

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Yep, I betrayed my PC geek self and bought myself an Apple product. Why? Lack of substitutes, really. There’s nothing prettier or sleeker than the iPod Touch and though I still like to annoy my friends loyal to Apple by calling it the iTouch, I shall be PC (excuse the pun) and call it the [...]

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