How do you get into your computer? Chetna wrote me this week asking if there was some other way to secure her PC than a long difficult password. You know with upper case, lower case, numbers and symbols of 18 characters long, etc. Which I am sure we all follow that rule…right. (Read the last…
From emails, I hear many got new Windows 10 computers for Christmas and it is encouraging you do use a Pin and not a Password to secure it. Is a four-digit pin a good idea to use over your either character password? Microsoft says it is a very good security feature for your computer….
Before I start today’s topic I will answer emails I have received this from a couple of readers. “Are you going to write about which computer I should purchase for Christmas?” Sorry, but no for a couple of reasons. First, I stopped doing this several years ago because they always sounded the same. Next, it…
I wrote about one of Google’s great apps called, “Google Calendar Sync” in 2012. Then in 2013 they did away with it. It was an easy to use add-on for Google that made it easy to sync between your Outlook (usually work related) and Google calendars. That way you could have your business appointments in…
Nope, I am not referring to a car, a new superhero movie or a cheap wine. I am however talking about one of the better applications out there. It is cross platform meaning it is available for Linux, Windows and Mac computer operating systems. However, at this time it is not available for iPhones or…
Rick emailed an interesting question about Gmail this week. His company uses Google’s product, “G Suite Business” for their email. With G Suite all email and cloud storage is handled by Google in the cloud. This can allow big savings in money, time and equipment for the company. I have used it before in the…
In 2014, I wrote about a newer Microsoft application called OneNote. It was and is still an excellent free program. Even if you do not have Office you can still get OneNote for free. Go to OneNote.com to read all about it. Also note that OneNote comes with a preinstalled version in Windows 10. It…
Over several of the past weeks we have talked about talking to your devices. Whether asking for them to give you directions, the temperature, local movies playing, the time, etc. We also spoke about dictating to some of your devices and word processors. For some it could, and does, make it much easier to type…
Before I start on today’s column I have a little flashback to last week. I mentioned other voice recognition apps like Office’s new Dictate.ms last week. I received an email from a couple of readers last week chatting about Google Docs. Yes, Google Docs has speech-to-text capabilities also. However, I have never tested it. I…
From a column a few weeks ago regarding speaking to voice activated devices, Microsoft came to mind. You are in all likelihood aware of Cortana the voice search that comes built into Windows 10 but there is more. It all started many versions ago in Microsoft Word where you had the ability to speak to…
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