If you have followed my articles through the past 15 or so years, you’d realize that I have a love/hate relationship with Google. OK, it’s mostly love, but sometimes they really antagonize me. Today, I have two Google changes for you: one insignificant and the other very significant. First up is the one that will…
Some of the big technology devices to hit in recent years are Voice Assistants. The idea first came about on TV with Star Trek in the ‘60s. This was when you could communicate by voice instructions with the computers. In the real world, “Siri” started on the iPhone 4S at its release in October 2011….
Last week I wrote regarding some of the good of email, see “Email Positives, Part 1” if you missed it. This week I will voice some of my concerns regarding this great feature of the computer age. Email has been around forever. Well not quite, as Ray Tomlinson is attributed with devising email in 1972…
Google has been letting their developers develop and I am glad. They have come out with some great apps since 1998 when Google was founded. Stop and think about that for a minute. A company less than 20 years old and most everyone knows of it. Did you realize that in 2002, the American Dialect…
For years now I have not had enough time to read all of the interesting things I run into online. And also, years ago, I wrote about a new app called Pocket (getpocket.com). Pocket allows you to save webpages from your Chrome browser to view later. To read them you return to the GetPocket.com site,…
As I told you last week this group of schemes are used on one specific part of our population. Seniors, baby boomers and post baby boomers. They even have titles. I have found examples of these all over the net and my dad even experienced one of these years ago. Counterfeit Prescriptions Because prescription prices…
For the past two weeks, we have looked at several of the ways we are being schemed and scammed out of our money. Today we will continue that journey looking at some other devious ways we are being bombarded by online purchases. Shop with reputable, well-known online retailers. Do not shop at a site you…
Today on Part 2 of looking at different schemes that are knocking on our phones, emails, and even doors we will look at a couple which have hit me recently. I am no different from you, so if I am getting them some of you are too. So here are your alerts, warnings and call…
There are a lot of cyber-schemes going around today. And yes, they have been going around for years. However, it seems to me that they have become more abundant over the last several months. You know the emails with strange attachments, the links from companies asking you to log in and check your account. Then…
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