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Google, Are You Kidding Me?
I have always been a big fan, supporter, promoter, etc. of Google. That is until recently and here is why they are starting to work their way off of my radar. Google is performing what is termed "Spring Cleaning" on several of their products. They shut down services/apps which they do not believe are being…

HTTP, HTTPS, WWW, or Not?
I had an email from Phil a few weeks ago asking a great question. Phil said that when he started surfing the net years ago, he had to enter websites differently than he does today. Why? His thought was that he no longer was told to type in the “www” before the rest of the…
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OK, for all of you hardcore fans…here is the second part of all the sites we visited last year. Once again, if the site addresses are too long for print, I have shortened them using my "dblclx.com" predecessor. They will be continuous characters without spaces and capitalization counts. Copy them in their entirety and then…
Windows 10, Part 3
Here are a few more features for Windows 10 that we did not talk about last week. First today is "Cortana." You may already be familiar with some of its ancestors, Siri, on the Apple platform and "OK, Google" on Android devices. It was named after Cortana, for all of you non-gamers out there, an…

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We will start this week of Gmail tips with ways to view your emails. When you start Gmail on a new account, you get what they call the “No split” view. This means that you see a list of your emails in your inbox. If you want to read one, you simply click on that…
My Favored Browser
Apparently there are a few of you getting new computers for Christmas. (Do not let the kids read this if they do not know about it.) I have received many questions about what to do to set them up. I have several suggestions; however, one of the best I have written about before. If you…
Google, Are You Kidding Me?
I have always been a big fan, supporter, promoter, etc. of Google. That is until recently and here is why they are starting to work their way off of my radar. Google is performing what is termed "Spring Cleaning" on several of their products. They shut down services/apps which they do not believe are being…

HTTP, HTTPS, WWW, or Not?
I had an email from Phil a few weeks ago asking a great question. Phil said that when he started surfing the net years ago, he had to enter websites differently than he does today. Why? His thought was that he no longer was told to type in the “www” before the rest of the…