Recently, I have suggested my favorite apps which I install first on a new Windows computer. We covered four applications in the first article and these in the second; Microsoft365, Google Drive, and LibreOffice as the top three possible choices for a great production suite. They counted as #5 as you only need one and…
Last week I looked at the first of the best ten apps I consider should be added to a new computer. I gave you information about Ninite, Google Chrome Browser, BitWarden, (or LastPass), and Malwarebytes. By-the-way, just as in the last article, here I have indicated the applications that can be installed using Ninite.com. Ninite…
Scroll down past this very long graphic. It may be long, but interesting for you to take a look. Security is a big deal on the web. With your bank, store sites, email, and yes, my favorite Google. If you’re like most people, you probably use Google for just about everything – from searching the…
I wrote about this free app from Google several years ago. But I get questions often about how to do things that this app can help people with. The standard question is like, “Ron, how do you take notes for important things on your phone?” You know, an idea hits you and you want to…
Just think about how much personal information we have stored on our phones and social media profiles these days! We need to make sure that this data is protected. Today, I will help you give your Google account more protection from hackers and malicious access. I will talk about how to use two-step verification and…
Something we all do is to put an occasional quote in an email. It can be from a previous email, a document, or something you wanted to type. You could go old school and type quotation marks around the word or phrase after typing it or pasting it from somewhere else. However, Google’s Gmail has…
Let us say that you are out of town or, for any other reason, you want someone else to have access to your Gmail. Well, here is an important technological tip. Never, ever share your account username and password, for any account, with anyone else! Yes, they may be your best friend right now, but…
Last week I told you I would give you more useful features found in Gmail which are the Search features available. A couple of you wrote and saying something like, “Gee, Ron, all you need to do is type the word in the search bar at the top for what you are looking for, press…
I hope you were one of the many that took part in the contest last week. I had quite a few entries that figured out the “correct” way to take part. So, thanks and congratulations to you all for solving and entering. First, how could you enter with the clues given last week? I mentioned…
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…
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