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Category: Technology

  • Amazon Scout Autonomous Delivery Robot

    Amazon Scout Autonomous Delivery Robot

    Scanning the news a few days ago, I spotted an article showing a picture of the Amazon Scout autonomous delivery robot. As always, in this day and age, I just read the headline and moved on to the next headline. But today, I went back to that article and looked closer. Hey….this is interesting stuff…

  • Using the Netgear Orbi WiFi Router

    Using the Netgear Orbi WiFi Router

    UPDATE 12/17/2022: The Orbi is still going strong! And it is keeping up with our Xfinity speeds. Just checked the speeds on my Pixel 6 Pro: 399 Mbps down, 11.9 Mbps up. 🙂 UPDATE 10/28/2019: After resetting unexpectedly, the Orbi has been flawless since April 4, 2019 and before that for several months. Not sure…

  • Pixel 3 XL Night Sight

    Pixel 3 XL Night Sight

    Google has released the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL Night Sight camera feature.

  • Using Google’s Titan Security Key

    Using Google’s Titan Security Key

    I wanted to see how Google’s ($50) Titan Security Key could work to secure my online accounts. Based upon my past experiences at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, where we tested a separate physical key, I understand how well the security offered by an external physical device can work.

  • Pixel 3 XL: Using the Top Shot Photo Feature

    Pixel 3 XL: Using the Top Shot Photo Feature

    Playing with my new Pixel 3 XL. Using the Top Shot photo feature. It’s awesome!

  • Beta Testing Digital Wellbeing

    Beta Testing Digital Wellbeing

    I un-installed Digital Wellbeing and, in addition to my blood pressure normalizing, I had a stroke of creativity (instead of worrying about every freakin minute I was on my phone) and wrote this blog. 

  • “Grasshopper: Learn to Code in JavaScript” by Google’s Area 120

    “Grasshopper: Learn to Code in JavaScript” by Google’s Area 120

    UPDATE 5/6/2018: After working on Grasshopper for 16 days in a row…..I GRADUATED!  Yippeee! Tired of your kids, or grand-kids, having all the fun learning how to code?  Well…..here is an app for us “old” folks.  😉 Adult learners, using the Grasshopper app on your Android or IoS phones can now learn how to code…

  • Learn IT Support: Online Google Course

    Learn IT Support: Online Google Course

    Saw this a few days ago: Google is now providing an online Google IT Support Professional Certificate class that can get ANYONE (Hmm, but, I’m too old, right?) up to speed on becoming an IT Support Specialist in less than a year. Very cool! 🙂 Here is the blurb from the Google Blog announcing this…

  • Google Pixel Augmented Reality: An Experiment with Blaze

    Google Pixel Augmented Reality: An Experiment with Blaze

    ‘Twas the week before Christmas…….and I was working with Blaze on his down-stays while also GEEK-ing out with the newly released Google Augmented Reality (see below the video for a definition) Stickers for my Pixel XL. As Blaze and I were training, I decided I needed help from the “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” crew,…

  • Using Android Pay on My Pixel XL

    Using Android Pay on My Pixel XL

    The never ending battle for truth justice and the…….. Oh well, you know the rest, and now that I have officially used Android Pay for the first time…..I will soon be able to save the world with my Justice League friends, starting with Wonder Woman! Makes me feel 10 again!  Love it…..:-) Paying by phone…