Dec 5, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone
I have a couple of numbers about Apple and Google for your entertainment. The numbers are 88 and 91. They’re not what you expect. It’s an interesting world. Android – 88% Nearly 90% of all phones shipped worldwide in the third quarter of 2016 were running...
Nov 20, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, phone, photos, web_services
(Happy Thanksgiving! Next article will be Monday, November 28.) Google continues to provide the best tools for non-professionals to work with photos. It has introduced a new app for scanning old photos, and it has improved the editing tools in its Google Photos app....
Oct 17, 2016 | Android, Apple, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive, photos, web_services, Windows10
All the people who have asked me how to manage their photos on a computer are over 40. If you’re under 40 (“young’un” is the technical term), you take several hundred photos a day and it never occurs to you to “manage” them. If you want an old photo, you scroll...
Oct 13, 2016 | Android, Chrome, Chromebook, Google, laptops
Chromebook sales are steadily increasing. In the third quarter, Windows PC sales were down 5.7% and Mac PC sales plummeted by 13%, while Chromebooks dominated back to school shopping and continued their long-term climb. Chromebooks now outsell Macs in the US. Part of...
Oct 6, 2016 | Amazon, Android, Apple, Chrome, Cortana, Google, hardware, search, web_services
You have a vague idea that Google knows a lot about you. You’re right. Google has nothing to hide. It’s prepared to show you everything it has collected about you. Are you sure you want to know? It’s a bit . . . creepy. A few months ago Google created a tool named “My...
Sep 21, 2016 | Apple, Google, Microsoft, phone, Politics, security
It’s not your imagination: robocalls are on the increase. The volume of robocalls has risen sharply in 2016. Complaints are up. The government and big companies are taking new steps to try to rein in the scammers and perhaps tame the “legitimate” telemarketers. It may...
