Archive for May 7th, 2007

According to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project publication, I am probably a Web 2.0 Omnivore. The fact that I’m writing this and have written many posts on this and other blogs could be enough to put me into that group. I have also published videos on multiple streaming servers.

I own a PalmPilot, portable MP3, digital voice recorder and a couple of cell phones. If you call the phone at my office, the message says you should email me.

I don’t use Twitter. Those people must be in the top 0.8%.

You can probably read a lot of different things into this report. For one thing, 15% of us don’t have a cell phones or Internet connection. The average age of this group is 64. I suspect this group will continue to shrink if only from attrition. At age 64 I hope to have an email implant with retinal display and global wireless connectivity. If Moore’s law continues to play out, I’ll have a computer the size of a credit card that is so advanced it will treat me like a house pet. I can’t wait.

When it comes to digital content, there are two trends: larger monitors and smaller print. The next time you are trying to read something in your browser and the print is too small, zoom in. If you have a scroll mouse, hold down on Ctrl and Scroll forward. If you don’t have a scroll mouse, stop reading this and go buy one.

If you are using the keyboard and need to scroll in, press Ctrl-Plus (that’s the plus key). Ctrl-Minus will zoom out.

Zooming works in IE, Word, Excel and PowerPoint (and probably most other MS applications). It also works in Open Office. There is no zoom feature in Firefox. Ctrl-Scroll does change the font size, but not the graphics. In Firefox the scroll direction is the opposite of all other applications.

I have seen this shortcut effectively used in presentations when someone is doing a live Internet connect and part of the resulting web page is too small to see on the projector screen. Just point to the spot that is small… and zoom.

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