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As the late screenwriting legend William Goldman famously said; “nobody knows anything” so predictions – especially about technology – always run the risk of making people look silly in the not-so-distant-future. That said, I’m going to go out on a limb and say in the next few years we’re going to see more people becoming “Virtual Reality Refugees.” By which I mean immersive technologies will provide increasingly attractive alternatives for those wishing to escape the dreamlike madness that has overtaken our real world. This isn’t a completely new idea — it’s been explored in movies, literature, and tons of tech articles —…
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Technology is responsible for literally thousands of new words that have been added to our daily lexicon in the last decade. Words like selfie, TL:DR, bingeable, and Bitcoin have all been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary this year. All these words started somewhere before being included in the dictionary. Usually, new words are invented in a Shakespearean fashion to best describe something that currently there is no word for. If people start using the newly created word, it might one day make it into the dictionary. Here at Hard Fork we have coined – get it? – and come across…
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It’s that time of year again. What always amazes me is how much tacky crap people will tolerate for the holidays. Creepy music, vulgar light decorations, gross food… the list goes on. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of great stuff too. Take holiday movies for example, there are some absolute classics. But there’s also a lot of really really terrible films which for some reason we lower our standards for. Maybe it’s the spiked eggnog, or maybe it’s capitalist manipulation disguised as “coziness,” but Netflix has managed to exploit our weakness for holiday crap yet again with their…
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What you may not know is that there’s already a program in Microsoft Office that can probably handle what you’re proposing. It’s Microsoft VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) — and even though it’s been around for 25 years, lots of users don’t realize how it can be used to automate a lot of the repetitive Office tasks that drive you crazy.