April 13, 2016The Web’s Child
You may have read about Tay. She was Microsoft’s attempt at artificial intelligence, designed to interact and learn from random people on the Web. Tay was mercifully killed less than 24 hours after she was born. And we’re all better for it.
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April 11, 2016Changes at the Google Play StoreDon’t worry about my Android For Dummies books being out-of-date on a few topics; Google changes things almost as soon as I write about them. Case in point: As I’m writing this post, the icons for the “Play” apps have changed.
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April 8, 2016Fun With Chromecast, er, Google Cast
Google has renamed Chromecast to Google Cast. If you have any Chromecast dongles dangling from any of your HDTVs or computer monitors, then you probably noticed the update a few weeks back. We have these gizmos on various TVs throughout the house. The other day, my son Jeremiah and I discovered something rather devious you can do with a screencast.
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April 6, 2016Resolution v. ResolutionThe word resolution can be confusing and most people don’t understand it. That’s because it can refer to two different things.
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April 4, 2016We Interrupt This Connection . . .In what the government considers a surprise attack, North Korea today shut down all Internet access throughout the world. All sites are offline. No data can be sent or received. So how are you reading this post? April 1, 2016Don’t Bother with Samsung RegistrationThis is not an “April Fools” post. It should be. I’d love to strongly urge you to register your tablet or phone with Samsung and reap all the rewards. It would be a cruel joke because registering your produce with Samsung is a joke. So it’s not just a one-day-a-year thing. March 30, 2016When it’s Safe to Send
You’re killing some time with your mobile gizmo in an airport or cafe. The network has a password, so it’s “secured.” So is it okay for you to log into a website, do your online shopping, or transfer cash with online banking?
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March 28, 2016Old Files I Keep But Can’t OpenOccasionally I browse my published archives. They don’t go back all the way since I lost a bunch of files when I upgraded computers in the 1990s. So some stuff is all gone now, but what about the oddball files that remain for other books?
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March 25, 2016The Hat TrickComputer nerds enjoy the cryptic and the arcane. Specifically, symbols are something that the most Aspergy among us thrive in using. They offer the joy of being both convenient and cryptic, which should delight anyone, even a Vulcan.
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March 23, 2016The Razor Blackwidow KeyboardMy son is an avid gamer. I’m a writer. We both demand quality from our keyboards.
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