Last week I started a look at some of my favorite Chrome browser extensions. We started with “Behind the Overlay.” To learn how to install them check out last week’s column. Today we will start with one for your security. We all keep reading about protecting your privacy while online and I agree that is…
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…
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,…
Last week we looked at private browser settings. If you have any setup questions, go back to last week on DoubleClicks.info and check it out. This week a few more good things you can do with the Private Mode on your browser. If you have ever needed to browse to the same site but different…
What is “Private Browsing?” is a question I receive from time-to-time. People write that they were looking around in their browser and saw it. In Google Chrome the same thing is named “Incognito Mode.” In Internet Explorer, it is “InPrivate Browsing” and others have slightly different names. The Private browser settings are sometimes referred to…
I am testing a new type of computer, at least for me. They first came into the public view in early to mid-2013 depending on where on the globe you are located. You know the one as the marketing for this “new” computer was worldwide and abundant. You know all the happy people dancing around…
My friend, John and I were talking a couple of weeks ago about a geek hassle we have all faced. Usually this happens at work but on occasion anywhere. Some specific websites are designed to open and function properly in Microsoft Internet Explorer…only. SharePoint seems to be one of the main offenders. They may open…
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