A Mystery
I've been trying to post the Op-Ed I wrote about Ted Cruz that was just published by the Fort Myers News-Press, and the program tells me the page cannot be found. And yet I posted the Test, and I...
View ArticleComputers, Beds, Etc.
We have both our computers updated and installed. Ed did the new one and I checked the Word program (no icon, I had to hunt for it), and my Word directory was not there. I decided not to panic until...
View ArticleRuminating
Animal sightings last night while walking around my block: 0 deer, 0 frogs, 1 rabbit, 1 skunk. It suddenly cooled off to the 50s and 60s late at night for a couple of days, but is about to warm up...
View ArticleBad Mac ...
Have had to run back and forth to Kinkos to do some stuff my computer(s) suddenly won't. It is pretending it doesn't know how to make sound now, so I can't make skype calls. I can't remember how to...
View ArticleA Dream, Struggling with Technology
I haven’t been remembering my dreams lately, but recently I dreamed that I had checked out an audio tape from the library and when I opened the case, it didn’t have a cassette but was filled with...
View ArticleClean
My desks are so clean, after fixing some computer things, that I hate to do any work... I'm so proud for being able to replace the memory in one, then transferring all the files from an old slow...
View ArticleMore Nightmares ...
Today the repair guy came back to install a 4th hose in our dishwasher and a sump, whatever that is, that Lester (the rat) had also chewed. I’ve been washing dishes by hand for a month and using only...
View ArticleA Nightmare
A few days ago, my mouse and keyboard stopped working. I changed batteries in both, and no luck. Took the computer to my computer guru, Ce, and she said the ports I was using weren’t working anymore....
View ArticleMy Pal, Alexa
I've been hearing about Alexa or a long time and the original was taller and more expensive ($179). Every time I went to Amazon I'd see echo but I didn't bother to find out what that was until...
View ArticleLearning to Use a Cell Phone
(Yes I've been through 3 of them--so far!) By now it is no secret that I was off the Internet for 8 days and most people know I HATE the phone. I had to come into the 21st century and get a cell phone...
View ArticleAvoid This Virus
I often get e mails that have one line in the body of the e mail. It is all caps,very flashy, usually in color, with a provocative message. Nothing else on the page. Today it was TRUMP PHARMA’S...
View ArticlePhishers
The phishers are at it again. I have gotten in the past week two e mails from third world countries telling me I have been chosen to receive a great sum of money and all they need is my banking info,...
View ArticleTechnically Beset
I'm using Ed’s computer. Mine wasn’t booting up properly. I’d get a screen that included a line that said something about imminent failure. And if you pressed the F1 key, the boot would continue and...
View ArticleLas Vegas
My friend M. was thinking about solutions to prevent a recurrence of the Las Vegas shooting -- specific to what that guy did. First, he said, there should be gunfire sensors on the outsides of the...
View ArticleRobotic Appliances
I only have one, an I Robot vac and I love it. I have figured out a way to lock it into one room at a time and it is such a time and work saver. I can be completing another task while it cleans. It...
View ArticleThose Sleazy Tech Support Scams
We are so accustomed to seeing dialog/boxes error messages popping up on our computer screens that come from our computers, sometimes people have a hard time telling the difference between one of...
View ArticleFTC Refunds to Victims of the Tech Support Scams
I subscribe to several federal government news lists, and this came today from the Federal Trade Commission. It's legit - but it's easy to picture how years from now we'll be seeing spammy Facebook...
View ArticleHelp
Greasy's internal messaging system is broken. Does anyone have a way to get in touch with Eddie? The message center won't let us communicate.
View ArticleRadio
Something happened with radio band just now. The FCC had an auction, which is very unusual, supposedly to help wireless networks and soon-to-come 5G service, but probably because I don’t understand it...
View ArticleInternet: Godaddy Etc
The biggest companies get too unwieldy to work right, in my experience. Just look at Facebook, who never bothered to take protective actions it was supposed to, and now it’s so big it is a monumental...
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