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well... duh!!I try to backup my cellphone to a computer once a month. Since it's running an Android O/S on a Samsung, gmail handles all my contacts, data and apps....

Receiving "Likes" here on CS.....I am quite thankful for the real ones I get. But many come in without photos, and in black and white, and never seem to really exist. Not being a cybe...

Pc / Laptop / Tablet / CellPhoneWe are in a New Technology world: Just about everything is possible with communications across the world, being a millisecond away: You are totall...

cellphone cords with the ability to hack...I read a story today that people who charge their cellphones in public places are at a high risk of being hacked... especially if the charging cord or...

Right now, I'm grateful, here on my knees, and not in front of any burning bush.But the word is finally in, at the "too much money and time on hands" Consumers' Delectronics "group f-ck convention" in LV Nevada. Thank the Goddess,...

OK, all you astute CS bloggers.........As hinted at, here it is. We all have to thank the founders of this great CS service for making our lives better in lots of ways. And doing so wit...

Battle #2 With The Advertising AlgorithmsEarly in my relation with Amazon, I made the mistake of buying several items in my cart, just after a price increase. Apparently the algorithms decid...

laser etched diamonds...Two coworkers were talking about an expensive diamond ring purchased while on a cruise to the Caribbean. I asked if there was a chance of fraud and th...

Uhura had the first Bluetooth...Star Trek came out in 1966. Uhura was the communications officer aboard the USS Enterprise. Her claim to fame is having the first Bluetooth. It was...

4.20...The wind is down and I'm charging batteries to catch a few model aircraft flights this morning. The batteries I use are lithium polymer or Li-Po for s...

Building a hospital in 10 days...I've seen video from China with a dozen or so tractors and earth moving equipment running around the clock and scheduled to build a hospital in 10 day...

DRONEon episode 8...The subject is Obstacle avoidance. I was reminded about this feature as the Kobe Bryant crash on Sunday January 26 killed all nine aboard a Sikorsky S...

usernamehi! hope this reached you in a good condition. lol. so i wrote this to ask if it is possible to edit or change my username. i’ve looked but didn’t see...

A little common sense sure helpsMy home has a modern high efficiency furnace only a few years old and of course troubles so being the diy i am I made a go at it after studying the th...

Fossil fuel fed electric power plants........ending their heyday?....Some (academic--so likely alt liberally biased-VERY biased) researchers claim that the costs of these operations will now...

Networks, and network theory........links and nodes... Sure, concepts such as like sorts with like (homophily), contagion and resilience, she who has tends to beget more, falsehoods...

HTTP Error 503.2 - Service Unavailable...Now that millions of people are home under lockdown, it's safe to say the internet is on bandwidth overload. Many sites cannot handle the amount of in...

Google Maps...We've grown to rely of Google for everything... well, mostly everything. I'm trying to resist as Google is invasive to the Nth degree. If I have an ad...

HE washer? I'm a frayed again...The condo I bought had an old washer & dryer. I didn't expect them to last long and I was right. Small capacity, they actually worked well, but they w...

3D Pen...You've probably heard of 3D printing where a filament of heated plastic is extruded to build up layers creating dimensional objects. Yes? They are use...

Helium and beryllium- strategic elements.The USA has most of these, as other places have concentrations of their own substances. Google these two, for their many essential uses. What a stupid...

Safe modeMy desktop computer goes through phases of hanging or buffering for literally minutes on end, but not all the time. It starts, usually, about 10 minut...

SpaceX scheduled to launch 60 satellites today...Today at 3:30 PM EDT (12:30 PM PDT) from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with live stream expected to kick off around 3:15 minutes prior, SpaceX is putting...

Life before the InternetThis is for young people who weren't around when there was no such thing as online anything. The personal computer wasn't even invented yet. Oh, the...

Converting songs and things to metric...America made a poor attempt to convert to metric in the 1970's and with the exception of tools and some engineered products, we switched back to the i...

Batteries...Too often batteries are the issue in things needing to be replaced. Years ago, I had cellphones that the user could change out a battery when it no lo...

International short wave stations...Still many broadcasting to many (developing) parts of the world. In dozens of languages. The cutbacks, with the internet, seem greatest in Europe and...

Hot Wheels...Earlier this week, I read a story about looters in California who broke into a car dealership and stole luxury and sports cars worth millions of dolla...

Brunelleschi's Dome

Advertising -Over-handed & desperate.WOW...Connecting Singles is a "used to be thing". When someone has to maneuver reading or reply & try to put it somewhere to have it read. I thin...

Updates...For many years, I've been using Firefox for my internet browser and update usually once every 3-4 months. In the past few months, it's been nagging fo...

Awesome Christmas ad 2019...

The RAZR is back!Last week it was a leaked rumor. This week it's been confirmed. Motorola is bringing back the legendary RAZR flip-phone. Introduced in 2004, the RAZR...