This is a quick review of the Amazon Fire TV 4K Max streaming stick. This new one is my 3rd Fire TV stick I’ve owned, the last one being a Fire TV stick 4K, the model just under this new “Max” version. While the “Max” is not a huge upgrade over my 2 year old …
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Review of Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K MAX
November 9th, 2022 | Posted by in Hardware | Streaming | television | Tips | TV/Video | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Review of Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K MAX)Why everyone needs to own a wired mouse
June 14th, 2021 | Posted by in Fix | Hardware | How-To | Mac | software | Tips - (Comments Off on Why everyone needs to own a wired mouse)Why do I suggest that everyone keep a wired USB mouse in a drawer “for emergencies”? The answer is simple. Once in a blue moon it can save you a lot of time trying to get your wireless mouse working when that goes wonky. I consider having a wired USB mouse a necessity. I recommend …
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RE: “Important policy changes for Google Account storage” (Do Some Cleanup Help)
December 10th, 2020 | Posted by in Fix | How-To | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on RE: “Important policy changes for Google Account storage” (Do Some Cleanup Help))If you have a Google / Gmail account you probably got this message recently to Dear Google User regarding “Important policy changes for Google Account storage”. Google is changing some policies about storage. We are writing to let you know that we recently announced new storage policies for GoogleAccounts using Gmail, Google Drive (including Google Docs, …
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Microsoft Office on Apple M1 Macs
December 8th, 2020 | Posted by in Hardware | How-To | IOS | M1 | Mac | Tips - (Comments Off on Microsoft Office on Apple M1 Macs)I had a client recently who bought a new M1 Macbook Pro. He needed some help because he said his MS Office / Word application running on his M1 and Big Sur would not authenticate. I screen shared with him and we tried to uninstall and reinstall MS Office and still would not authenticate. Office …
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How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone or iPhone)
October 23rd, 2020 | Posted by in Fix | Hardware | How-To | Mac | Tips - (Comments Off on How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone or iPhone))How To Call Block A Phone Number (using a Panasonic phone) If you are getting annoying calls (robo-calls, unwanted sales calls, etc) one thing you can try is blocking the number so if they ever call back, it will ring once and stop. Here’s how to using a Panasonic phone; Other phones may use slightly …
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How to use Google Photos to back up your iPhone photos for FREE !
August 16th, 2019 | Posted by in Backup | How-To | IOS | Mac | Maintenance | Tips - (Comments Off on How to use Google Photos to back up your iPhone photos for FREE !)Did you know that you can get FREE backup protection from ever losing your photos? If your phone gets lost, stolen, falls in the toilet, gets run over by a truck, etc….. you can just get the GOOGLE PHOTOS app, which is free and comes with unlimited free storage for ALL your photos, on all …
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How to buy a refurbished Mac, MacBook, iPhone, or iPad directly from Apple
May 27th, 2019 | Posted by in Hardware | How-To | Mac | News | Tips - (Comments Off on How to buy a refurbished Mac, MacBook, iPhone, or iPad directly from Apple)How to buy a refurbished Mac, MacBook, iPhone, or iPad from Apple If you hear “refurbished product” and immediately think of buying some piece of junk that is dented, scratched and otherwise really “USED” with a capital U, think again as far as Refurbished products that Apple sells. What Apple calls “refurbished” is quite different. …
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What is “LoCast” (Streaming Local Regular TV, FREE)
February 22nd, 2019 | Posted by in Mac | Streaming | television | Tips | TV/Video - (Comments Off on What is “LoCast” (Streaming Local Regular TV, FREE))If you are young, you may not believe this, but TV used to be FREE. Seriously! It was broadcast over the air for free, by law. Then Cable TV came along, and changed the rules of the broadcast game so now you had to pay for cable. If you are one of those interested either in “cord-cutting” …
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What is Streaming?
January 29th, 2019 | Posted by in Mac | Streaming | television | Tips | TV/Video - (Comments Off on What is Streaming?)Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock the last few years, you have probably heard the word “streaming”. Still perhaps you are not exactly sure what is meant by the term, “Streaming” ? Have ever watched a YouTube video on your computer or your smartphone? Or maybe watched a Netflix movie on your laptop? Well …
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Amazon Prime Video has classic HBO series like THE SOPRANOS and THE WIRE and more for “free”!
January 23rd, 2019 | Posted by in News | Streaming | television | Tips | TV/Video - (Comments Off on Amazon Prime Video has classic HBO series like THE SOPRANOS and THE WIRE and more for “free”!)(UPDATE: NO LONGER VALID; HBO’s changed to HBOMax) I found this out just last week by accident and thought I’d pass it on. If you are an Amazon Prime member, you get Prime Video. You can watch many complete “classic” HBO series which are included “free” via Amazon Prime Video! So if you don’t have …
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