Converting PDF to Word Documents

It might not be helpful to start out by making this point, but I can’t help myself: the trick to converting a PDF into a Word document is that it’s not a Word document. By which I mean that it’s not a text document, and it’s entirely possible that it never was one. It’s the … Read more

Should I get an iPad?

This certainly falls under the category of ‘has been covered elsewhere a thousand times,’ but it also falls under the category ‘top ten questions to ask Michael.’ So here’s my answer:

Depends!

And you thought this was going to be short and sweet.

First, if you love gadgets and are made of money, there’s no point in waiting around. Get one today, and buy an extra for me as well.

On the other hand, if you aren’t made of money, you have some questions to answer about yourself. How do you primarily use a computer? People tend to fall into two broad categories:

1) Write email, check email, surf the web, view Microsoft Office documents, play music, look at pictures.

2) Creating relatively (or very) complex documents, editing files of all types, five bajillion songs, six bajillion photos, and simply must use program X.

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