Welcomed Google Assistant into our home. Me: OK Google, cook dinner. The Google: Sorry, I can’t help you with that.
Category: IT
Updating PC’s
Drippy weather + sprained leg = a good day to slow down and update our PC’s.
Freekin’ Cheap: Free Landline Phone Service
Google Voice and a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) adapter give us free dial tone on all our landline phones. Almost all calls within the US and Canada are free. International calls are near enough free. We use our home landline phones the same way we have always used them. People continue to call our… Continue reading Freekin’ Cheap: Free Landline Phone Service
Freekin’ Cheap: Free Landline Phone Service
Posted Freekin’ Cheap: Free Landline Phone Service. We pay nothing for landline service.
Fiber to the Basement
Signed up for fiber to the home: half the price of DSL or cable. Local service provider, no teaser rates or bundling.
Pure, Dumb Luck
Used a low-tech solution to bring an ancient CPU back to life: a blast of air at the connectors. Pure, dumb luck.
One-Time Password Generators
Drippy day. A good day to write about one-time password generators.
Tax Prep Day
Tax prep today. A first (for us): we only brought digital records. Then, we celebrated over brunch at Wise Acre Eatery.
Google Chromecast
Plugged Google Chromecast into the television. Now it’s remarkably easy to choose a show. And only $30, shipped.
Software Updates
Upgraded a tablet to KitKat (a breeze) and a desktop to Windows 8.1 (printer was a challenge).