Chrome & Flags

Chrome Flags

Today we are going to look at flags, Google Flags, to be specific. I thought I had written about this before, but I missed it. These have been around, in some form, for years and are useful if Google Chrome is your default browser. Depending on when, in the future, you are reading this, these…

Google Voice Screen

Google Voice

I hate to repeat myself, but today I will. I wrote an article about this same application approximately ten years ago. The reason I am writing about it again is the number of questions I get about it, along with learning new features it has, from other users. First, for any of this to work…

Reset this PC

Speed Up Your Windows 10 Computer, Part 4

Several weeks ago I wrote parts one through three of this four-part series and ended it by saying, “If none of these suggestions worked over the past three articles, next week I have one that is guaranteed to work by Microsoft but not me.” And then I forgot about part four. I got excited about…

Recycle Bin

Speed Up Your Windows Computer, Part 1

I get questions regularly about how people’s computers are running slower than they were when they were new. Well, so am I. After a few years, everything slows down a bit. However, with a computer, you have some options to speed them back up. Many times these recommendations will work and then only sometimes well,…

Windows 11

Are You Ready for Windows 11?

So we have had Covid-19, death and illness along with many small business failures because of Covid, oil pipelines, LinkedIn, Facebook and others hacked in 2021, fights for the presidency (not unusual) along with many problems over the past months. So, guess what? Now we are getting ready for a new release of Microsoft’s Operating…

Disk Clean Up

Clean Your Software

Last year, about this time, I wrote an article about Spring Cleaning your computer. It dealt with the physical computer cleaning like your monitor, keyboard, mouse, inside your computer, etc. Today I have an idea to help you clean the hard drive and software on your computer. First, get rid of any applications you do…

Amazon Logo

Amazon Returns

My wife got a pair of shoes for my daughter’s birthday in a local store and a pair for herself. They were too large; although they were labeled as the correct size. So a few weeks ago, she took them back to the store she purchased them from. It took her about 45 minutes to…

Ron and his bike

Back in the Saddle Again-Dictation Apps

I have recently received emails asking why I have missed a few articles over the last couple of weeks. Thanks for asking, and I have responded to each of your inquiries. For those others who may have been wondering, I will talk personally and off tech for a moment. In mid-April, I was in a…

Hamburger possiblities

How about a Hamburger?

Universal Icons are something that you know about and may not have known you knew. Think about some of these icons. The symbol of a house, an arrow pointing to the right, a Holmesian magnifying glass, a heart, a hand with the thumb pointing up or down and many, many more. You have it; the…

Rocketbook Wave

Not Quite a Spiral-Bound Notebook

Has technology changed the way we do things? I know, I know, silly question. I was riding on a longer than normal trip with my wife last week. We were talking about how we navigated around the U.S. with an Atlas pre-smartphones. You know the book that links page 34 with page 19 so you…