Google backup and/or Gdrive wording is horrible. I think "delete everywhere" just made me lose a lot. My scenario. It's wordy but every single post I've seen asking the same question gets a totally different problem answered. Even the support is confused by what is happening to people like me. I...
This is pretty big news. I called it. A sneaky takeover is approaching. It doesn't happen often in the real world that a race for the leader sees the winner fall from first to third place, but it might happen this year. Microsoft was first out of the gate with an open system that allowed anybody...
A funny thing happened to me recently when I was involved in a text conversation with a friend of mine. I was laying in bed, chatting with a friend using Google Hangouts on my cell phone. At some point it occurred to me the typing on the cell phone was a little...
Windows 10 Update:I crashed Microsoft Edge the very first time I used it.I was interested to see how Edge, Microsoft's replacement for the old IE almost everyone but me hates. I gave it my morning task... a rough run through it's paces for any browser. So far, it's...
Apple does a few things really well, but one of the biggest impacts on the cell phone world, is the way they've managed to make getting the newest iPhone an obligation of your status. Of course, not every iPhone user lines up to be first, and many don't even bother...
COMPUTER IMAGE - THE SILENT KILLER This is an article I found today, written for the Georgetown Ontario Commodore 64 users group. By Jeff Goebel Circa 1985 A reputation is a strange thing. Most of us spend much of our lives either trying to create a good one, or...
I recently bought a cheap 7" tablet from a foreign "free shipping" web site and it's horrid. Really really bad. In fact, I can't even browse the web or watch any video at all. However, I don't consider it a waste because I have learned from it that I really do want...
Today an old friend asked me about her father’s old computer, and whether I could come clean it up and make it run faster. Another techie already tried and it’s not significantly better. I decided to share my reply here for public awareness. I do support like this...
This blog was written entirely using my voice and the Google voice keyboard tool on my android phone. Wow I really didn’t expect it to work this well. I have not done any editing at all. The option is new on Ice Cream Sandwich, and the Google voice box appears where...
