The book you've been waiting for. Collected within it's covers are 89 of the most enlightening columns published over the last six years. Maintenance items, e-mail, tips, tricks and some fun things to keep it light. There is even a vocabulary builder of computer related terms and phrases to help us communicate with help desk folks and those pesky grandkids. As an added bonus there is a section to record all those unforgettable passwords that we faithjully forget. These columns are written for us the common user, technogeeks can skip this one.

Introduction

  AN EXAMPLE IMAGE Grumbles from the Keyboard is a collection of newspaper columns written over a period of six years. Published as Bits and Bytes, under the Court Nederveld byline, the column appears each Wednesday in the Charlotte Sun, Charlotte County Florida. The column is written for the average home computer user, mom and dad, grandma and grandpa and those folks that do not consider themselves techno geeks.
Chris Porter, Executive Editor, Charlotte Sun Newspapers said this about Grumbles From The Keyboard, "I can't count the number of people I've heard from who have been helped by Court Nederveld's helpful, useful and well-written columns in the Sun. We've received countless thank-you notes over the years, and that accounts for only a fraction of the number of people who have benefited from reading it. We really get the calls when we move his column and people can't find it."
Gordon Bower, Former Editor Punta Gorda Herald had these thoughts. "Talking Court into writing a computer column for the Punta Gorda Herald was the easy part; more difficult was remembering all those nuggets of wisdom and humor over the years. Not to worry. He's packaged them into an affordable book that's a reference for the computer challenged and a good read for all."

The weekly Bits and Bytes column was constrained to seven hundred words while running in the weekly inserts and trimmed to five hundred words when the column moved to the front section of the paper. As each column was reviewed and vetted for inclusion in Grumbles From The Keyboard, I took the liberty of adding to a column if the information seemed relevant and updated where necessary.

Grumbles From The Keyboard is grouped by topic, so columns will not appear in chronological order. As a desk side reference putting similar or related columns together will make it easier to find information as needed.

Enjoy!

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About the Author

Courtland Nederveld was born a very small child in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Currently living in Charlotte County, located in sunny southwest Florida.  After spending thirteen years with corporate information technology he seized the opportunity to move on. Continuing with computer consulting he also began to pen short travel and humor articles for the local newspaper. Encouraged to tackle writing a how to weekly PC column in 2004 for the community, his Bits and Bytes byline quickly became a weekly staple. Other published work includes, On the Road series, Great American Pony Drive, and Epicuria: Adventures That Really Cook! Short stories include Earth’s Last Twelve Hours, Harlequin, The Studier Becomes the Studied, My Other Half and The End of the Beginning.

More Praise for Grumbles From The Keyboard.

"Court Nederveld, a computer guru (but not a geek as he drives a Mustang) is a champion of writers dealing with all aspects of our new, technological world. A former student, member then  Director of the Peace River Center for Writing, his new book is what we having been looking for."

John Pelot
Vice president, Peace River Center for Writers@Edison State College
Professor, English Edison State College