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Sunday, March 18, 2018
Roku vs. Amazon Fire TV Stick, my choice by Carl Thorne
I have both Roku and Amazon Fire TV Sticks.
All the blogs I read that compared these two devices left
out the reason I like the Roku over the Amazon Fire TV Stick.
I can watch channels on any PC monitor or TV monitor with
these devices without renting a cable TV box.
Why is Roku better in this regard?
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Your cable TV provider must support a app on
either the Roku or the Amazon Fire TV Stick. Comcast supports more channels on
the Roku.
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Roku provides a free movie app. These offering
change monthly. I can always find a couple of my movies watching each month. No
such channel exists from Amazon.
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Many...
Is Google Fiber Right for You? by Carl Thorne
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Saturday, March 17, 2018
Google’s new PhotoScan will protect your old photos … forever by Yahoo Finance
Break out that box of old photos, because Google is going to help you protect them forever.
Available as a free download, PhotoScan will let you scan your old photos using your smartphone’s camera.
The app will eliminate the glare that usually comes from taking a photo of a photo.
Google says it’s able to do this with machine-learning techniques that recognize and remove glare and shadows.
The tech giant promises the scans will be clear enough to be printed.
But thanks to Google’s free unlimited photo storage, you don’t have to print right awa...
Pogue’s Basics: Have your iPhone announce your calls David Pogue
I’ve
got a friend whose home cordless phone (yes, she still has one of
those) announces, out loud, who’s calling. It’s kind of cool, because if
you’re making dinner or watching TV or something, you know whether it’s
worth answering. “Call from Vantage Insurance,” it’ll say — a
telemarketer — and she ignores it. “Call from David Pogue,” and, of
course, she leaps to answer.
Turns out the iPhone can do that too. But not one person in a thousand knows.
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Open Settings > Phone >Announce...
How to avoid falling for email scams by Daniel Howley
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Early
one Sunday morning, my editor, Yahoo Finance’s Erin Fuchs, checked her
personal email and was surprised to find a message from PayPal (PYPL). The missive said she had recently changed her password, and asked her to call a phone number if that wasn’t the case.
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Pogue's Basics: How to forward a text message by David Pogue
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In a previous “Pogue’s Basics” tip, I let you know that you could report cellphone text-message spam by forwarding it to 7726.
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“Well, great,” one reader wrote, “but how do you forward a text message!?”
Ah. I guess that might...
No, your Apple computer isn't immune from ransomware by Daniel Howley
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Since
Friday, hundreds of thousands of Windows PCs around the world have been
hit by a nasty strain of ransomware called WannaCry 2.0.
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Now I get it: Ransomware by David Pogue
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On May 12, a computer worm called WannaCry began infecting over 300,000 Windows computers in 150 countries—and made headlines around the world. Here’s what you need to know.
Meet ransomware
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How to switch from iPhone to Android and vice versa by Yahoo Finance
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Change
is good. It’s, as the cliché goes, the only constant. But change is
also hard. And the hardest kind of change, outside of my transformation
from obnoxiously dressed teen to a just plain obnoxious man-child, is
changing the kind of smartphone you use.
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