If you have followed my articles through the past 15 or so years, you’d realize that I have a love/hate relationship with Google. OK, it’s mostly love, but sometimes they really antagonize me. Today, I have two Google changes for you: one insignificant and the other very significant. First up is the one that will…
Some of the big technology devices to hit in recent years are Voice Assistants. The idea first came about on TV with Star Trek in the ‘60s. This was when you could communicate by voice instructions with the computers. In the real world, “Siri” started on the iPhone 4S at its release in October 2011….
Last week I wrote regarding some of the good of email, see “Email Positives, Part 1” if you missed it. This week I will voice some of my concerns regarding this great feature of the computer age. Email has been around forever. Well not quite, as Ray Tomlinson is attributed with devising email in 1972…
When I started to ponder writing about email this week I thought, “This will be short and sweet.” After I started to think more about it I found that it will be neither. This simple email topic has turned into a series about my love/hate relationship with email, which I know many of you share….
I was answering a question for a reader last week and mentioned an application I have used before. She needed several pieces of information regarding her computer for a possible upgrade. I never advise people how to upgrade a computer but I was more than happy to show her where to find the needed information. …
I get emails fairly often with this question, "I cannot afford to purchase Microsoft Office for the big dollars they charge. What else is available?" Well that is an easy question to answer. There are free alternatives out there and some are just as good as MS Office. I also tell them that MS 2016…
Google has been letting their developers develop and I am glad. They have come out with some great apps since 1998 when Google was founded. Stop and think about that for a minute. A company less than 20 years old and most everyone knows of it. Did you realize that in 2002, the American Dialect…
For years now I have not had enough time to read all of the interesting things I run into online. And also, years ago, I wrote about a new app called Pocket (getpocket.com). Pocket allows you to save webpages from your Chrome browser to view later. To read them you return to the GetPocket.com site,…
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