I had an email from Phil a few weeks ago asking a great question. Phil said that when he started surfing the net years ago, he had to enter websites differently than he does today. Why? His thought was that he no longer was told to type in the “www” before the rest of the…
Recently meeting software of all sorts has replaced working in an office, talking face-to-face with friends/coworkers, and even some doctor visits can be made online. Different scenarios in everyday life situations which we would have never thought about five or six months ago have been instituted over the past months. I talked directly about Google…
Once again it has happened. A new year is starting and the 19th year of the "Double Click" column. I want to thank each and every one of you for reading the approximately 900 articles I have written during these years. Thanks for the emails I continue to receive. Not only does it let me…
Do you check the weather online? How about on your phone app? Possibly your smart speaker, i.e. Google Home Mini, Amazon Echo Dot, or others that do not have quite the followers? Many still remain loyal to TV, radio and/or newspapers. Weather is one of the top ten most searched items according to Google’s 2018…
At a recent speaking engagement, I was talking to the group about security. This discussion was centered on Virtual Private Networks or VPNs. Since 1996 when a Microsoft employee created a secure tunneling system for computers, VPNs have been around. It was not as we know a VPN today; however, it certainly set the process…
There is another scam that you may have heard of floating around the internet. It is not a joke and is not to be ignored if it happens to you. You may be working on your computer and get a phone call. The caller may tell you they are from Microsoft, or some other tech…
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…
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and visits to the stores on Black Friday to get the very best deals. By-the-way, it is said that the phrase “Black Friday” started in Philadelphia when the heavy traffic after Thanksgiving Day disrupted traffic around 1960. Then in the early ’80s it started being used for the…
I have purchased a few items from online stores over the years. I have become quite disappointed with one of the online stores I have used. I received an email from one of the major online tech stores recently that seemed to be too good to be true. It had the usual good prices on…
Google told the world on February 12 it will no longer support, wait are ready for it? If you said, "Picasa" you got it right (picasa.google.com). Now I will not yell too loudly about this one since I was not a big Picasa lover. It seemed a little convoluted to me; however, many people love(d)…
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