{"id":10782,"date":"2015-10-17T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10782"},"modified":"2015-10-17T12:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T19:26:49","slug":"technological-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10782","title":{"rendered":"Technological Miscellany: Facebook, Mergers, AOL, Word, and Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4959\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiccyborg.jpg\" alt=\"userpic=cyborg\" width=\"91\" height=\"99\" \/>I&#8217;m taking some time this morning to clear out the accumulated links. This post brings together a number of items of technological nature, some older, some newer, but all with hopefully some interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>I Like That. <\/strong>Reports are surfacing that Facebook will be <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2015\/10\/liking-isnt-enough-new-facebook-reactions-offer-wow-sad-more\/\">addressing the &#8220;dislike&#8221; button issue by allowing people to vote with selected emoticons<\/a>. The problem that Facebook faces is a language one: &#8220;liking&#8221; a post doesn&#8217;t seem right when someone is sharing bad news &#8212; you want somethat that says &#8220;I&#8217;m here for you&#8221;. The problem is that Facebook&#8217;s new range still isn&#8217;t broad enough: &#x1f622; might not be the right thing. Ideally, you could put any emoji: just imagine: &#x1f4a9; 23<\/li>\n<li><strong>Merger Mania<\/strong>. Some tech mergers have been in the news recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/12\/technology\/dell-emc\/\">Dell bought EMC<\/a>, which might not mean anything to you, but does mean a lot to me. EMC, you see, bought Data General many years ago back when I was the team leader for the DGUX B2 evaluation. Also announced was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/lastpass-bought-by-logmein-for-110-million\/\">the purchase of Lastpass by LogMeIn<\/a>. A lot of people are worried about this. As a Lastpass user, I&#8217;m not worried yet &#8212; I&#8217;m more &#8220;wait and see&#8221;. I would still recommend Lastpass &#8212; it has drastically simplified password management for me and seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/2471297\/endpoint-security\/four-things-you-should-know-about-lastpass.html\">to do a good job of securing the passwords<\/a> (from what I&#8217;ve read) &#x1f510; 5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building a Collection.<\/strong> Everyone collects something, from maps to stamps to figurines. But here&#8217;s a new one: AOL Disks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/inside-the-weird-world-of-aol-disc-collecting-511\">Here&#8217;s a detailed look inside the world of AOL disk collecting<\/a>. &#x1f4bf; 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fonts and Word.<\/strong> One problem with MS Word is that sometimes you get a document and don&#8217;t have the fonts to read it. Here&#8217;s how to solve that problem &#8212; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2984714\/software-productivity\/how-to-embed-fonts-in-word-documents-so-they-stay-even-if-you-send-the-file.html#tk.rss_all\">how to embed your fonts in a Word document<\/a>. &#x1f4dd; 4<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slightly Off<\/strong>. Do you like the new Google logo? Some folks didn&#8217;t &#8230; it disturbed them, and they undertook an investigation to figure out why. <a href=\"http:\/\/ak.vbroek.org\/2015\/09\/03\/the-new-google-logo-and-kerning\/\">They discovered it was because the kerning was slightly off<\/a>. &#x1f4d0; 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m taking some time this morning to clear out the accumulated links. This post brings together a number of items of technological nature, some older, some newer, but all with hopefully some interest: I Like That. 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