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Cameras on Smartphones: Photography for Everyone
Call me old fashioned, but, this is the first year that I am really enjoying using the cameras (front and back facing) on my smartphone. My new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a camera that is every bit as good as our standalone Sony camera for utility, instant, use. Caveat: I am not a professional…
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Test Your Web Site to See if Google Thinks it is Mobile Ready
I found this link recently and gave it a try to make sure my web sites are approved by Google to be “mobile ready”. They are! You should do the same….. — TechyMike.com — TracyReaderDad.com — ForCarol.com — Conclusion Change your web sites to mobile friendly because the world is going mobile…
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Google Project Fi: Google Wants to Be Your Next Wireless Service Provider
Google just announced that they will be jumping into the cellular wireless service provider space joining the likes of AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, et al. with Google Fi. Promising to use new technology to provide a robust, multi-network, multi-device, experience for voice, texting, and data from 120 countries, Google has the potential (in my mind)…
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Diversify Your Telephone, Cell Phone & Internet Services
Although a rare occurrence, yesterday we lost AT&T Wireless service to our cell phones. This made me think about diversity of communications in the home. Every time I go to pay our Comcast bill I am told that by adding telephone service (and more recently a home alarm system) I can “save money” over what…
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Crowd Mics: Audience Participation via Voice, Text, and Polling
UPDATE: May 2019 I guess they are gone. Hmmmm, even great ideas don’t make it sometimes. 😦 In the old days, I gave a ton of speeches at conferences on video conferencing technology. At the end of my talk, during the Q&A session, two people stood in the audience with wireless microphones that they would…
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Blast From the Past: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer
This was published in early 2007 or 2006 (I moved to WordPress in Nov 2007). Way back then, the cell phone was used mostly for talking and people were walking around with their cell phones plastered to their ear. Times have changed: Texting (and other Smartphone features) have made all the difference. Enjoy. —…
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Apple Watch
A few years ago, I lost my watch and searched everywhere for it. No luck. But, since I had a smartphone, I decided that I could live without my watch. Interestingly, at about the same time, the whole world decided that watches were passe. But as is the case in life eventually good things come…
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Using Google Inbox
UPDATE Nov 2022: Inbox has been gone for several years now. I still miss it. 😦 I am always willing to try something new. Sometimes that has been a curse (like being 20 years ahead of the videoconferencing curve) but sometimes it has been a blessing in that I occasionally find a gem that I…
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Taking A ScreenShot with Android
Got a Samsung (I have an S4) Android phone and need to take a screenshot? Here is how you do it. Hold the power button down and the main / home button on the bottom of the phone…SIMULTANEOUSLY Look in your pictures….. Easy as 3.14. Here is a GREAT video from Android Authority that covers more…
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TechyMike
A year or so ago, I pretty much gave up on TelBitConsulting (my video conferencing centric technology blog) choosing to concentrate on AltamontCowork (a coworking location in Tracy, CA) instead. Two weeks ago, a friend of mine fired up his new videoconferencing related site, so I paid $13 to WordPress and redirected all of TelBitConsulting’s…
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