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Texting from Your Computer

For a couple of years, I have been using a good Chrome Browser Add-on called Mighty Text, found at mightytext.net which allows texting from your computer. The big basic is that it allows you to hook it up to your phone and send text messages from your computer. This works on your Android device and…

2018-02-19 WSVA Show Notes & Podcast

  Welcome back to this month and thanks to the listeners/readers that caught my “2017” date error from last time… oops. Here is today’s podcast so if you could not listen this morning, enjoy!   The following are a few of the items we mentioned. Tech NewsFebruary 19, 2018 Report: Average business user must keep track of…

Temporary Gmail Access

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…

Chrome Extensions, Part 2

Last week I started a look at some of my favorite Chrome browser extensions.  We started with “Behind the Overlay.”  To learn how to install them check out last week’s column. Today we will start with one for your security.  We all keep reading about protecting your privacy while online and I agree that is…

Be Fed Your Favorites

Do you get up every morning and go to your phone or tablet to read the latest news and information?  If so, do you have those favorite one, two or 20+ sites you visit to get the latest news?  There is an easier way to do this without visiting each site individually which you should…

Google Makes Some Changes

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…

Voice Assistants

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….

Email Negatives, Part 2

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…