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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...

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...

Going down on me in the middle of the night...I scanned an old photo to send to my brother last night and my computer wasn't connecting to the email server. I tried to access the main website and...

To 5G or not to 5G...I'm thinking about a phone upgrade this year and the model I want is around $1,000. Scary thought to pay so much for a phone, but there's an interface...

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...

Under my nose...There was a time I had control of all my tools, gadgets and hobby parts. I could switch hobbies for months and when I returned back to one everything...

My private cell site...I was a Sprint customer for many years and when I started working for a company that had a metal roof on their building, my phone reception (inside th...

Cracked Software...I bought my first personal computer in 1975. It was made by Commodore and the programs had to be typed line by line and saved to a cassette. Soon afte...

Spin Cycle...One of my requirements of buying a condo is it had to have a washer & dryer within the unit. I shopped some communities where they had one laundry roo...

Cool Christmas gift...Every year, I tell my family not to get me anything for Christmas. They all develop selective hearing loss and get me something. This year, I received...

Cellphone HELL...With all the phones, tablets, laptops and computers I go through, I should be used to upgrades/changes by now. Last week, I took delivery on the Samsu...

5G...I'm rounding the bend with my recent episode of cellphone hell. Most of the issues with my new phone have been eliminated with setting changes and ins...

Carillon Historical Park...On Friday, I got to visit the Carillon Historical Park, with some of the oldest buildings in the Dayton area. There were a few hundred displays of thi...

First ever video on Youtube...

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A big change in my life...The computer mouse is an important tool in my daily life. I've tried lots of different brands of 'mouse-like' products including trackballs, joystick...

'Watch' this...I estimate the percentage of iPhone users versus 'the other phone' users to be as high as 70/30 and many most of them have an apple watch to go along...

How hard is it to change a SIM card...I have an added feature with my phone carrier to notify me of potential spam calls and an enhanced blocking feature. For some reason my good friend Jo...