For years now I have recommended and supported Dropbox.com. It is still good for your online/cloud file storage. It has a good free plan that starts with 2GB of storage. I feel that Dropbox is still good; however, they made a change recently that concerned me. (If I was not writing this for the public…
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…
I have not written about purchasing new computers for Christmas in a while. Ten years to be exact. Why not? There are so many brands, price ranges, different bells and whistles, people’s needs and more. And the, “What should I include in a new one?” question is again…vast. There are way too many choices today….
I was dumbfounded when Charles wrote to ask a question about GasBuddy. I knew I had written about that in the past. So, I looked in my files for the article so I could send it to him. I could not find one as I apparently have never talked about it before. So off we…
As always, Jim and I had a good time this month and hope you do too! The podcast is here for your listening pleasure or laughs. Today we started out talking about personal Facebook issues we have. I mentioned that I will be teaching a class in the next month or so about Facebook pitfalls, safety…
In today’s digital world we are threatened daily online. There are viruses to destroy our devices, malware to get our usernames, passwords, other information, ransomware to lock up your files and then charge you lots of money to unlock it again. The same problems could be running on your smartphone. If you are one of…
This week we started with a couple of interesting thoughts. Why is the older generation targeted for scams and “Who guards the guardians?” Should the internet be censored? What do you think about what we thought. Listen to the Podcast here. Then, due to reader and listener requests, we talked about some of my favorite…
Since 2014 I have written about and several times mentioned a browser add-on called Mighty Text (mightytext.net). Then just this last March, I wrote about another one called TextTo (textto.io) which is now known as Send Leap (sendleap.com). They both continue to function well; however, there is another and possibly better kid on the block….
Welcome back to the WSVA Notes and Podcast from the show. I hope you enjoyed it on this new day. Usually, it is the third Monday each month. Due to scheduling issues it was today, the second Wednesday. Next month we should be back at the regular date and time. Which if I calculated correctly…
The last three weeks I have been sharing the new Gmail interface from Google. Due to the large number of emails I received, thanking me, discussing and questioning me I thought that you may want some more about Google “stuff.” So today we continue with a couple of more pieces of information about other Google…
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