Well, it is the time of year when you may be getting ready to get a new computer. You may be looking for me to give you advice about what type of computer, tablet, phone, or other device to get. I hate to disappoint you but I feel there is something more important you should…
I went through almost my entire college career without taking notes. I found that when I took notes I was busy writing and missed what I really needed to get from the lecture. I was/am not good at shorthand; neither the genuine one nor my own made up version. Lo-and-behold, technology triumphs again! This creative…
Over the years not once have I mentioned MMS and only once SMS (and then only as an aside). If you check with my wife and many friends it is because I just do not like this technology much at all. I find it a waste of time. Too lengthy. And then there is that…
A few weeks back I wrote about an application you could use to retrieve deleted files from a computer’s drive, SD Card, etc. This was really highlighted when I got an email from Tom in Harrisonburg, about his adventure with that application, Recuva. It began with, "I took a deep breath, downloaded, installed and ran…
The September show is up now. Not many links today but some good talk and calls. You can listen to the show here. Have a great week! Tech NewsMakerBot chief believes self-driving cars will spur a need for 3D-printed organs Self-driving cars are safer by their very nature, since they avoid the mistakes of human…
As you regular readers know I am a fan of Google and yet on occasion they fail me totally. Mostly this is due to them doing away with applications I use and enjoy: Google Reader, Calendar Sync, iGoogle, Google Notebook just to name a few. But I enjoy their products so much that I have…
Last week I started this series regarding things you should not do online. Here is the last part starting with something you may have never thought about. Be very, very cautious of posting online about your kids and grandkids. Say you take a picture of your kids and some pedophile sees them. Sometime later you…
Today we had the April show on WSVA, 550AM. If you have 40 minutes to learn some new tech info and listen to Jim Britt and I having fun…take a listen here. A few calls, a few issues, a few news items and a lot more. Enjoy the links we talked about below. Tech NewsHeartbleed…
Last week I told you I had a better idea than using Google Cloud Print. That feature of Google’s Chrome browser allows you to print documents from any of your computers to your printer in any location. There is one other way to print using this feature. That is by connecting directly to a networked…
Adobe makes many products which are used on Windows computers today. Every now and then you are reminded to update Adobe Flash. If you are the normal computer user you probably just click the “Install” button and continue on. First, let me provide a quick history of Adobe Flash. It started out in the 1990s…
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