Solutions for time-wasting voice mail.
Rambling voice messages. Incoherent voice messages. Useless voice message. Send a text, for crying out loud! You could just turn off your voice mail…
Category: Technology
High-tech Menorah kits
For your budding computer scientist, here is a high-tech project to create the ancient 9-armed Menorah. The project kit, from evilmadscientist.com,…
Who do you love? The home assistant competition
The fight to bring music and a virtual assistant to every home intensified in November with the release of the Google Home system; the direct competitor…
Pings: Millennials and scams; Facebook soars
Millennials fall for online scams, study says The most tech-savvy group in the world are the most likely to have lost money in scams, according to the…
Pings: Android, pizza, Hawk/snake video
In-app search for Android rolls out Google has announced a new search system for Android that will search inside apps such as email, to-do lists, notes,…
Is my computer being monitored at work?
Yes, your computer is being monitored at work. But don’t get too paranoid. In 1940, it would be frowned upon to use the company typewriter to type…
Smartphones might end the checkout cha-cha
The checkout counter cha-cha: Swipe the card, step back, turn around, insert in chip reader, tap toe for 10 minutes while the card reader works. Okay,…
HummingBad: A nosey, greedy thief
About 10 million Android phones throughout the world have the HummingBad blues, a malicious app that collects our personal information and clicks on ads….
A hack with a view
NASA’S Kepler Twitter account (@NASAkepler) typically tweets artsy pictures of space discoveries and planets. In early July, one tweet was might exotic. A…
Phising site tactic
Watch for scam sites by looking at the domain (paypal.com is a domain), not just the design. Design can be mimicked. Addresses can’t. It is not paypal, if…