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Showing posts with label bad tech advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad tech advice. Show all posts
Monday, November 16, 2020

USB File Transfer for Dummies

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Not an ordinary USB cable Sometimes we think that the only thing worse than a freelancer faking knowledge is someone who believes it. Be tha...
Monday, August 24, 2020

WordPad Columns for Dummies

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WordPad Insert Object Menu Perhaps one the of the most... irritating? traits of the eHow.com "contributor" (as their freelance...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

UNIX for Complete Dummies

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UNIX If there's any one "flavor" of DotD that chaps the collective hiney of the Antisocial Network staffers, it's gott...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Adding Machines for Total Dummies

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Mechanical adding machine We'd like to think that if a child were to ask us a question about how something works, we'd either la...
Monday, March 18, 2019

HDTV Antennas for Dummies

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HDTV antennas In a perfect world, when someone asks the question " How Do HDTV Antennas Work ?" you had better believe that th...
Friday, August 31, 2018

GPS for Complete Dummies

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basics of GPS Content farms of the internet break down into two different families: in the sites such as HubPages.com, freelancers post ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Blocking GPS Signals for Dummies

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GPS phone tracker It's not unusual for one of our research staffers to look at online "tutorials" and mumble something abo...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Excel Macros for Dummies

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Recording an Excel macro From time to time our research team members run across posts that are so transparently bogus that they don'...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Secure Pen Drives, the Dummies Version

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A couple of our staff (regardless of what " A Way With Words " might pretend, that means "two")  are amateur linguist...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Adding Machine? Calculator? Dummy!

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HP Scientific Calculator We complain a lot about freelancers who pluck topics out of midair and "write" about them without pr...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Adding Machine Instructions for Dummy Office Drones

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If you wanted instructions on how to, say, drive a car with a manual transmission, you probably wouldn't be satisfied with detailed i...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Dueling TV Antennas for Dummies

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Two antennas, one output The eHow business model was simple: pluck search terms including the word "how" from the internet (l...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Customer Support by Dummies

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Icon Fitness logo Today's DotD nominee is a little different: normally, we find some greedy freelancer who makes a mess our of fact...
Saturday, August 5, 2017

Digital Television for Dummies

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TV Digital television About a million years ago – 2009, if you're really interested – the U. S. television broadcasting system went...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Cassette Tapes for Millennial Dummies

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Cassette tape One hoary old adage says we should never send a boy to do a man's work. Yes, we know, sexist: the hoary old adage-mak...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Aspect Ratio and Image Resizing for the Clueless

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The one on the right is distorted, Joshua... We've met an astonishing number of people over the years who claim to be "compute...
Friday, April 7, 2017

HDTV Antenna Direction for Dummies

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Rabbit ears TV antenna with tin foil If you were to let just about anyone "answer" questions posed by internet surfers, you...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Pinterest unHELP, the Clueless Approach

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Pinterest We know; most days we've featured money-hungry halfwits who post misinformation, mangled instructions, or just plain stup...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Magellan GPS Initialization for Dummies

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Typical GPS Initialization Screen Among the most fascinating features of the old Demand Media website, eHow, is that you could often fi...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Initializing a GPS For Dummies (Techwalla Week 1)

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Typical GPS initialization screen Congratulations to the folks at Demand Media on their recent name change to Leaf Group (9 November, 2...