April 3, 2018May 27, 2018Microsoft Edge, Windows 10 Turning a WordPress Blog into a PWA Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are web apps that feature a native Windows app experience, and can use features like push notifications. The […]
March 22, 2018May 27, 2018Connected Home, Cortana Cortana, IFTTT, Invoke all together now Microsoft just announced that Cortana now works with IFTTT. Cortana has had an appalling lack of third party skills (still does) but […]
February 17, 2018Alexa, Connected Home, Cortana Alexa you aren’t doing very well with weather forecasting All of my Alexa enabled devices are configured with the correct geo location, but I’ve had doubts for some time as to […]
January 25, 2018April 9, 2018Surface Where is the Surface Pro LTE Recovery Image (How to get) Microsoft’s latest addition to the Surface Pro family is the Surface Pro LTE. If you are a road warrior, this is THE […]
October 27, 2017March 24, 2018Connected Home Sonos One Meets Alexa It’s not my fault that I’m very, very particular about how my music sounds. My dad was an audiophile who originally owned […]
October 25, 2017March 24, 2018Connected Home Harman Kardon Invoke Cortana Speaker Harman Kardon launched its Invoke Cortana powered speaker on October 22, 2017 into an arena dominated by Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. […]
June 30, 2017Security Does Removing SMB1 Break Anything on Home Networks? My previous post provided information ( primarily for home users) on how to turn off SMB1 to help avoid the bad guys […]
June 27, 2017Security Turn Off SMB1 on Windows Now For the non technical computer users out there, this is a red alert. You many have heard of Wannacrypt. There’s a new […]
June 19, 2017March 24, 2018Surface Surface Pro (2017) I really loved my Surface Pro 3 (purchased June 2014), but earlier this year, it became useless as a portable with a […]
May 27, 2017Security Multi Factor Authentication App Backup and Usage Strategies I’ve been using Microsoft’s Authenticator App because not only does it support Azure Authentication (Office 365) but because it supports my Microsoft […]