I hope your Thanksgiving was as good as mine. My son Eric and I had a great reunion, watching football and eating and drinking like pigs at a local sports bar. I know…it was not a typical Thanksgiving, but we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Friday was just as much fun.
Now that Thanksgiving is over, we are now officially in the Christmas buying season. My inbox was full of Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Having just spent a bundle on my new iMac, I really didn’t spend much money on more discounted tech products. But there were definitely some amazing deals to be had in stores and on-line.
December also means a slow-down of high tech news, so will really have to scrounge to find interesting stories. However, there are still a ton of good tips and tricks out there for computers, laptops, tablets, and cell phones…and those tips are really the heart and soul of this tech blog. So stay tuned for lots more good info. -JRC
Tech News and Opinions
Is the PC losing its touch?
The industry’s response to the tablet has been to push touch in laptops. If the shelves of Best Buy are any indication, it seems to have worked. So why are there now reports that touchscreen laptops will be phased out?
It's 2014. Why is my battery stuck in the '90s
The devices we all rely on continue to evolve radically. So why has the battery industry failed?
NSA chief admits China could cripple U.S. power grid, financial networks
National Security Agency director Adm. Mike Rogers said in testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence Committee that hackers have performed "reconnaissance" missions in order to work out how networks function.
iCloud reportedly held back by 'deep organizational issues' within Apple
Steve Jobs had a particular interest in keeping photos, one of the most highly shared forms of media, in sync between devices. Yet, over three years later, Apple has not reached the full potential it envisioned with iCloud.
Destructive’ malware may have hit Sony Pictures, other companies warned
Sony Pictures was hit by unknown hackers last week who managed to steal various sensitive information, including high-quality digital versions of several unreleased Sony movies.
Computer Tips and Tricks
Faceoff: OneNote vs. Evernote
Now that Microsoft OneNote is free for Mac and Windows, the price and cross-platform barriers to this much beloved note-taking tool are gone. But how well does OneNote stack up to (the also awesome) Evernote. Let's take a look at where each app shines, and why you might want to use one over the other.
Working Without Wires: Setting Up a Wireless Printer
You don't need to go hunting for a USB cable to connect to a printer, and you don't need a printer for every PC.
Top 10 Underhyped Windows Apps
Some apps are fantastic, yet fly under the radar. Today, we look at our top 10 underhyped apps on Windows.
Personalize Windows Explorer navigation bar, libraries, and favorites
Two of the sections, Favorites and Libraries, are easily configurable. The other sections are not configurable for a good reason.
When to image a hard drive, and when to clone it
Cloning copies the complete contents of one drive—the files, the partition tables and the master boot record—to another: a simple, direct duplicate. Imaging copies all of that to a single, very large file on another drive.
Mobile Computing
Best Android Apps of 2014 According To Google
Included in Google’s best of 2014 list are some of your favorite apps, many of which are more than expected to make this list, including Link Bubble, IFTTT, SoundHound, Secret and Google Fit. But there are also some apps you never heard of.
Use This Clever Trick To See Your iPhone's True Signal Strength
Ever find yourself questioning how accurate those little signal strength dots are on your iPhone? Luckily, there's a trick to reveal your iPhone's true signal strength, and it takes less than a minute to enable.
How to move your receipts to the cloud
These three apps will help you preserve receipts so they don't fade away by the time you need them.
Twitter is now tracking the apps you download
Twitter has assured users that it will only track which applications you have installed, not any data from within the applications.
Split between iPhone 6 and Plus models settled down to 3-to-1 after initial 6-to-1 lead
While constrained supplies of the iPhone 6 Plus initially meant the 4.7-inch model was outselling its larger 5.5-inch brother by a ratio of 6-to-1, three different sources are now all reporting that the current ratio has settled down to 3-to-1.
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