One of the great things about shopping online is that you can read reviews of products you're considering before you actually purchase something. Of course, you need to be careful when you read a review because you can't see or hear the person writing it. Some people have been known to post false reviews. Luckily, …
Month: August 2020
It’s A Blessing And A Curse
My Dad and Mother and me! Missing from the photo is my older brother, Ed - may he RIP - and my older (but wiser) sister, Mary Catherine. Often during this Covid-19 pandemic, I've thought about my mother who was born in 1914 and my dad who was born in 1916. They were two young …
Another Program You Could Be Using For Free!
If you have a Microsoft account, you have access to a really cool program - Microsoft Forms! You can use it to create surveys and/or quizzes. It's free with a Microsoft account, which is also free if you don't have one yet. Why would you want to create a survey or quiz? Maybe you're involved …
Continue reading Another Program You Could Be Using For Free!
Buying A Laptop?
As I get a little older, I realize it's important to work smarter rather than longer. There are some things in the computer business that I am repeatedly asked. How cool would it be if I could just send people with the same question to one answer! Thus, one of the reasons I'm creating more …
Fact-Checking Is Important!
Recently, a Facebook friend of mine posted a message she had copied from someone else. Here is the message: "I understand that some of us differ in our beliefs regarding COVID19. I also understand that many people will be downloading the COVID19 app. However, if I am one of your "contacts" and you intend on …
I Hate Auto-correct
If you look at the keyboard image above, you'll see something annoying that my iPhone's auto-correct has recently started doing. When I type the word "the" it automatically replaces it with "The" even when the word is not the first word in a sentence. No matter how many times I try to correct it, auto-correct …
Mobile Phone Privacy
Our phones are great tools with which we can do so much. We can order food, have a share-ride service pick us up, pay for gas at the pump, buy products and much, much more. Unfortunately, there is a price to pay when using some of these opportunities – privacy. For instance, you can’t use …
New Kids On The Block
Okay, this post has nothing to do with the boy band (now adults) New Kids On The Block. But, we do have some new pages on our website that I thought you should know about. Someone asked me about a product I had recommended on YouTube but they couldn't remember which video they saw it …
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo
In a January 24, 2019 post entitled, Extensions: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly, (Click on Clint Eastwood to read the post!) we talked about browser extensions. We described what they are and that there are good, i.e., safe, useful extensions and there are ones that are bad and maybe even ugly. In this post, …
You Can Bank On This!
In my video, "How To Prepare Your Computing Devices For A Hurricane," I talk about USB Power Banks. (The video is at the end of this post if you haven't seen it yet.) The picture above shows three of mine (I have more.) which are all fully charged. Since I'm sitting here writing this post …
The Tracks Of My Fears
Here's a familiar scenario on the Internet: You go searching for some product. After you've finished, you go to email or go on Social Media and you are bombarded with ads for that product. This happens to me all the time. It even happens when I actually bought the product the first time I went …