
Skype Fail
[Update June 6] Well. I was wrong. My Windows phone was updated to 8.1. That means Microsoft has abandoned a good chunk of their base. [Update June 5] It Continue Reading →
[Update June 6] Well. I was wrong. My Windows phone was updated to 8.1. That means Microsoft has abandoned a good chunk of their base. [Update June 5] It Continue Reading →
The latest Flash update (e2c7b for the Mac) includes FOUR promotional installs. Come on, Adobe. Flash is a dead-end product anyway. Do you really need to drain every last penny out of it? Continue Reading →
I will, of course, file for a patent as soon as I figure out how I did it. Continue Reading →
If there is a technology company with worse customer relations management, I don’t know who it is. Continue Reading →
That’s right — these are the lightweight file viewers that have been available forever at Microsoft.com. To actually do any work, you’ll need to subscribe to Office 365. Now this is actually not a bad deal. For $100 a year you can use all of Office on up to five computers and five tablets. But, frankly, I’ve been using Documents to Go for years now and really like it. This app is from DataViz and is priced at about $20 for the version that lets you edit files. Continue Reading →
I’d like to summarize its contents, but frankly I’m not even sure what the company is trying to sell me. In the first paragraph they seem to think I’m a current customer. Wrong. We kicked uVerse out of our home office at the end of January. (Unsolicited plug for Sonic.net, giving us terrific internet and customer service.) But in the second paragraph they invite me to rejoin uVerse. We left uVerse because, frankly, the service was terrible. Continue Reading →
a link at the bottom of the page let me see more questions. I clicked it, got more questions (equally bad), then clicked the link on the new page. That displayed the complete list:: Continue Reading →