Category: Web/Tech

Trouble with my desk top machine forces me to learn how to blog from this, my first tablet, an iPad Air. I hope to be back in the saddle some time tomorrow.

Due to the various Linked-In scams, my policy has been to ignore all invitations.  I received one that appeared to be from a man I know, but when I contacted him, he said he hadn't sent it.  The ways of the scammers are as multifarious as they are devious, so to save time I delete…

A search engine that claims not to track your searches.

A reader complains that my front page takes too long to load, on one of his machines, as long as five minutes.  That must be one Jurassic machine running some superannuated browser.  I am wondering if others are experiencing similar difficulties.  A while back I made some additions, including a Facebook button, and I am wondering…

Mike Valle recommended that I add a Facebook 'Like' button to the footers of my posts.  Done.  I also added Google + and Pinterest buttons.  Pinterest, I take it, is the newest kid on the social media block.

I saw an advertisement for this voice-recognition software.  I was intrigued and was thinking of asking Mike V., a relatively young whippersnapper who is en rapport with the latest gadgetry.  (When he visits my house he makes fun of my Jurassic electronics.)  But then I wondered how useful such a speech recognition application could be…

I received one of these e-mails this morning.  Of course, I did not click on the link.  It's a malware scam and is explained here. Being a conservative, I am a firm believer in 'blaming the victim' (within limits of course!)  If you allow yourself to be victimized, then you share some of the responsibility…

I don't have a Facebook page and I don't plan to get one, or anything similar.  Some of the reasons are provide by Facebook user Lydia McGrew in her Privacy is not a Setting. See also Down with Facebook! and With Friends Like These.  

You should know this already, but just in case you don't. 

I started using it yesterday.  It's faster but the display is not as pretty.  Must speed be purchased in the coin of a substandard display?

Anyone whose website has a black background should be shot. Perhaps I should qualify my complaint: Anyone whose website is both content-rich and worth reading should be shot (figuratively speaking) if his background is black and/or there is anything in the reader's visual field that moves on its own. Content is king. Avoid clutter and…