If your Gmail account is pretty active, it can make notifications on your phone about every incoming email quite annoying. Between the icon in the top bar and a sound notification with each one, you might turn notifications off all together. A better way to handle the problem is to ensure you only get notifications for messages that you care about. Fortunately, the Gmail app on … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2017
Configure Outlook to recurring appointments for the last weekday of the month
Calendars have their own quirks so Outlook, part of Microsoft Office, sometimes bears the brunt of the frustration at calendars because it is a calendaring program. One behavior that can be difficult to master are meetings or appointments that recur with the day of the month rather than the date. From easiest to more difficult to predict, and therefore program, I would … [Read more...]
DDoS an increasing concern for majority in 2017 [infographic]
Corero made an infographic from a poll of technology decision makers and security experts at the 2017 RSA Security Conference. From the study, they determined: 56% of respondents view DDoS as more of a concern in 2017 than it has been in the past 40% experience attacks on a monthly, or even weekly or daily basis 31% have experienced more attacks recently 45% view … [Read more...]
Unboxing and reviewing Amplifi HD mesh networking
Home networking has been a frequent topic that I pursued for personal reasons to get the best coverage in my house. My last house was a ranch style with the cable Internet coming in the center of the house. With cheap routers, this meant the signal dropped off at either end of the house. I first used powerline adapters to distribute the Internet to the ends of the house and … [Read more...]
How to enable fingerprint gestures on the Nexus 6P with Android Beta
If you are running the Android beta on your Nexus 6P, the latest update brings the OS up to Android Nougat 7.1.2. One of the new features for the Nexus 6P includes fingerprint gestures, a feature previously available on the Pixel. With the feature, you can swipe from top-to-bottom of the fingerprint reader to bring the notification tray down or swipe up to close the … [Read more...]