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Your Phone App

Your Android Phone and What “Your Phone” Can Do for You! A little over two years ago I wrote about an app that allowed you to text from your PC, through your Android phone. It had a few other neat features and a couple of limitations. It was named MightyText.com. Visit this link if you…

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Software Combo, Google Gmail & Outlook

Due to the free Google courses …I am offering on YouTube I get some neat questions. By-the-way, 28 so far with only two more left in the series. The 29th will offer more details regarding this article, so register at GrayHaired.Tech to get an email when it comes out – hopefully, tomorrow (ghtech.site/reg). So, the…

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

For, the past 18 years plus I have been Double Click here at the Daily News-Record and many other places online. I have recently decided to create a change, the reason for the David Bowie quote from 1971, “Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes.” At this point I will still be known as Ron Doyle, Double Click at the DNR;…

Google Class (26-30)

Google 030 Google 030 “How to” with the new and improved Google Meet. Find out what’s next at GrayHaired.Tech and more free classes New Features of Google Meet Google Meet Video, Google 20, “How Baby Boomers can use Google Hangouts/Meet” click here to view it, https://youtu.be/oVe-LqCxTvw Visit Google Meet directly:  https://meet.google.com Pandemic extras for Meet…

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Family Time

My wife and I get together with my in-laws, Robin’s sister, and her husband about once a month or so. During this virus time, we have not been able to do so. You see they live in Chesapeake, VA and we are in Harrisonburg, VA. It is about a four-hour trip. But travel is not…

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Spring Cleaning for your notebook, phone, etc…

Last week we took a look at doing some spring cleaning on your desktop computer. This week: other devices. DO NOT take your notebook apart unless you know what you are doing. Notebooks can benefit from opening them up and blowing air in them to clear the dust, dirt, and other stuff out. I have,…

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Hansel and Gretel

You know, we, just like you, are getting cabin-fever and ready to get out of the house. My wife, Robin, had a great idea the other night. She told me, “Hey, since we are getting five to six weeks to a full tank of gas so far, why don’t we go for a ride around…

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Update on Zoom Bombs

I have an update for you from last week’s comments regarding Zoom Bombing. First, I apologize as I was told by several of you that I did not provide a link to Zoom; although, they found it by googling. They were correct so here you go, Zoom.us. Next, Zoom has been busy this week. They…

ZOOM Bombing

ZOOM Bombing

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…

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The Fallout

If you read last week’s column, I touted the great technology we have today that makes working offsite or “working from home” possible today. During this time of upheaval, it is very convenient. You could even work from a restaurant…if one were open. I have worked from home (WFH) many times over the past years….