The 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was last week. Today Jim and I look at a few of the items that we enjoyed – hearing and seeing about. No, we were not there but the internet is a wonderful thing to use. The Podcast is available here, listen and enjoy. You can…
This week, I talked with Dan Russell, a search anthropologist at Google, about the time he spends with random people studying how they search for stuff. One statistic blew my mind. 90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page!…
Before I start today’s topic I will answer emails I have received this from a couple of readers. “Are you going to write about which computer I should purchase for Christmas?” Sorry, but no for a couple of reasons. First, I stopped doing this several years ago because they always sounded the same. Next, it…
Welcome to another day of fun and thrills on the show. If you did not get to listen live, listen the podcast and enjoy. The following are links to some of the topics we discussed. Net Neutrality, notice how many times they use the word “could.” Cell Phone Abuses in Public Places, read another’s concerns….
At a recent speaking engagement, I was talking to the group about security. This discussion was centered on Virtual Private Networks or VPNs. Since 1996 when a Microsoft employee created a secure tunneling system for computers, VPNs have been around. It was not as we know a VPN today; however, it certainly set the process…
I wrote about one of Google’s great apps called, “Google Calendar Sync” in 2012. Then in 2013 they did away with it. It was an easy to use add-on for Google that made it easy to sync between your Outlook (usually work related) and Google calendars. That way you could have your business appointments in…
So on November 20 I ordered this from Amazon: It was supposed to arrive on Nov. 22. On that day I received an email saying it would be delivered on Friday. I checked the shipping and it was in Richmond in the morning and Michigan that afternoon? Then it went to Connecticut? Friday I received…
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