What is a meme?
A ‘meme’ is something that goes “viral”, which means that it gets shared all over the Internet. It can be almost any idea or concept expressed in some form of content on the web. It can be a photo, a video, a person, an animal, a fictional character, an event, a song, a belief, an action, a GIF, a symbol, a word or anything else. Most are captioned photos or series of […]
My husband likes a certain kind of bread that not all grocery stores carry. My son likes a certain kind of cookie. Some things consumed a lot in our house are better bought in bulk. (For us, peanut butter, maple syrup, and loose tea.)
If you have a Costco near you, and you don’t mind grocery shopping in a warehouse, you can schedule your trips to buy bulk goods. For more specialty items, you can shop […]
Using your voice to give commands to a computer once seemed like science fiction. Remember Hal from the Space Odyssey?
We’ve been able to talk to our phones for a while now, using Siri or Google Assistant.
Since Windows 10 and Cortana, we can talk to our PCs as well. And with MacOS Sierra adding Siri support, we can now talk to all of our Apple devices.
But why be tethered to a device? Now there’s the Amazon […]
Are you Mac or PC? What does that say about your personality?
Let’s look at a little history to see how we got here with this question. The Apple II was the first personal computer, released in 1977 after Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded the company – followed by the IBM PC in 1981, running Microsoft MS-DOS.
Always one step ahead, Apple under Steve Jobs released the Macintosh in 1984 – its windows interface was a […]
In the above still from an episode of the TV show “The Middle”, Sue Heck had accidently deleted all the family photos. No one had taken on the responsibility of backing up the computer and keeping those memories safe. (The Hecks probably could have taken the computer to a data recovery tech, but who wants to have to do that?)
In this article in the Guardian, Amy Malloy wrote about losing the photographic record of her 20s, […]
We’ve got five computers in our household. We’re almost like a small business – we need regular maintenance and backup. Rather than set up a separate backup device for each computer, I elected to go with a network-attached storage (NAS) device.
You connect the NAS device to your internet router. Your computer sees it as a network device that it can use for backup.
It’s a great way to add storage for backup and also for shared […]
Going it alone is not always a good idea and can stall your progress, so it sometimes makes sense to invest in a coach.
I call myself a “productivity consultant” rather than a “coach” because I have years of expertise in technology, organization, management, and communication – all skills that I leverage to help my clients with their digital chaos. Coaches, such as business and life coaches, have expertise as well, but their skills are more […]
In the old days, a library meant either a place for people to borrow books or a room in the house where books were stored. Information to manage that library was written on index cards and cross-referenced by a numbering system.
In today’s digital world, a library is a collection of related information, including the media itself – music, photos, etc. – and its associated information, called metadata.
Digital music libraries keep metadata about each song […]
Have you ever wondered if you still need a computer? If you own both a smartphone and a tablet and find yourself using your computer less and less often, then it’s a valid question. Our mobile devices have evolved to become as powerful as some desktop computers. They are easier to use in many ways with their touch interfaces and dedicated apps and also easier to maintain. They are less vulnerable to hackers (thus far).
So […]
All computers slow down over time. As the months or years go by, and as more & more applications are installed and data fills the hard drive, you may find yourself looking at a spinning wheel more often than you’d like.
If you’re running a software program such as Norton Utilities, or if you have a vendor-installed maintenance program, then you have a built-in, automated tool to keep your computer “tuned up”. But if you’re not […]
