Jul 15, 2018 | Android, Chrome, Cortana, Google, Microsoft, Office, Office 365, Office tips, OneNote, Outlook, Windows10
Microsoft has quietly improved the speech recognition features in Windows 10 and in the Office programs. They’re still not great but you might want to give them a try if you haven’t talked to your computer in a while. One fundamental truth has not changed: If...
Jul 5, 2018 | Amazon, Echo, Google, Google Home, home assistants, shopping
The definitive answer to which is better, Amazon Echo or Google Home? Yeah, that’s not going to happen. Forget about it. Just a stupid clickbait headline so this article goes viral and I get a gazillion tweets and Facebook likes and LinkedIn bites or whatever they do...
Jun 25, 2018 | Google, Office, Office 365, Office tips, Outlook
Here’s a tip for a few select people. Wonderful people. The best people. My people. All of you who use the desktop version of Outlook. You also use Google Maps, because everyone uses Google Maps. That’s obvious, right? It has become so valuable, so rich, so far ahead...
Jun 7, 2018 | broadband, Google, Internet, Microsoft, network, Windows10, wireless
This is a basic tip but it comes up all the time. Everyone needs a fast Internet connection. You might want to check your Internet speed out of curiosity, or because you suspect that your ISP is not delivering the connection that you were promised, or because some...
May 10, 2018 | Android, Google
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Google gave one of the all-time great technology demos on stage this week at Google I/O, its developer conference. Before you do anything else, watch this video of Google CEO...
Apr 22, 2018 | Chrome, Google, photos, Windows10
If you’re looking for a picture to use in a project – a Powerpoint presentation, Word document, blog post, whatever – you probably do a Google image search. Google has made that a bit more difficult. A few weeks ago Google removed a button that made it easy to...
