![]() ![]() Please imagine the rest of this column being delivered in the tone of an N.R.A. ![]() It is therefore with both guilt and nervousness that I mention the existence of programs that can improve on the usual, built-in ways of getting things done on a computer - but that take some tinkering to set up, luring the weak into a cycle of further frittering. At the dawn of the personal computer age, the writer Stephen Manes introduced the term "fritterware" to describe programs and systems that let you feel very busy - adjusting fonts and settings, tweaking color schemes or screen-saver graphics - without being productive in any normal sense. You can save 10 minutes paying checks online and blow an hour checking blogs. ANYONE who has used a computer knows that advanced technology both saves and squanders time. ![]()
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