I came across an interesting article about an alarm clock …
About 3 months ago I bought a new clock radio. Last night, I found that I needed to use the alarm for the first time. So I looked at all the buttons, took a wild guess as to how to set the alarm, and [...]

I have been confused by my laptop’s display behavior when I switch from AC to battery while running Ubuntu. The display dims automatically. I kept looking at the power management settings and *thought* I knew how to set the behavior I wanted.
There is a nice dialog box with tabs for “AC” and “battery” [...]

The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) computer uses a very different interface from what most people are accustom. The interface is called “Sugar”. Some think it is childish. While it was designed for a computer targeting children, and it uses very simple colors and visuals. This is partly because it is targeting children and partly [...]