My dad, who has a degree in education and works as a career counselor at a local college, will not properly use bold, italics, or underlining when writing email messages. Instead, he INSISTS on CAPITALIZING certain words for EMPHASIS throughout his WHOLE MESSAGE.
Idiotech
Parents, teachers, bosses, and the general old people population are terrible with technology.
Back it up.
My mother's computer is having issues, so I told her she needed to back up her files. She went and bought an 8GB flash drive, which is big enough to hold all her stuff, and she then "backed everything up." In the past, I knew she had about 4GB worth of pictures, music, and "her games." (She doesn't uncheck the "also install X with this game," and she also pays for and downloads games that you can play online for free...this is why she kills a computer every two or three years.) I went down this weekend, and she asked me to check that she'd backed everything up right. The 8 GB flash drive contained a grand total of 42MB of data. She hadn't backed up anything in her "my stuff" folder on the desktop (because she hasn't figured out how to use the "My Documents" folder), but she had copied the links to the crappy print shop program she had installed. She told me that meant she had backed up all the things she had created in it. Two clicks later, I had all 5GB of her "my stuff" and the things that default to being in "My Documents" traveling to the flash drive to create an actual backup. And, since she bought a "Geek Squad protection plan" with her computer, I told her to take it to BestBuy, because she's having hard drive issues. Oh, and I told her that three months ago, and I backed up the data two days ago.
Cell phone battery vs power grid
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My parents just told my sister that they think the can't use their cellphone if the power goes out.
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Well that's one way to do it...
My girlfriend was creating a report and created a different word document for each section. When she realized that she needed to include page numbers, instead of combining them into one document she proceeded to print out 96 pages with only the page numbers on them. Then, insert the pages back into the printer and print each document on top of them.
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"Did you call me?"
I work at a furniture store, and sometimes I'm asked to ride shotgun on one of the delivery trucks. The driver is in his 50's and a bit eccentric. Each truck has a flip-open cell phone to communicate with the store, and this driver is often worried he's missed a call. But instead of looking for the little envelope icon to indicate a missed message, he insists on opening the... Read More »
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Hot Spot
My dad has had an iPhone for quite some time now. No matter how many times that I tell him otherwise, he thinks he can only use safari on it if he turns his personal hotspot on. He also thinks that turning it on will somehow boost his signal. He even has my stepmom log into his hotspot to use the Internet even though she too has an iPhone and hey have a shared data plan.
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Write it down.
So I'm teaching my mom how to use email on her computer. So she's sitting in the desk chair and I'm standing over her shoulder. I say, "Ok, so turn on the computer". She goes, "Hold on." She then stands up, goes to get pencil and paper and proceeds to write down "Turn computer on". I say, "You did not just write that, did you?"
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