I made the news in my hometown, and I'm just a little bit excited about it. Here's a repost of the article from the Scioto County Daily News.
I Made The News!
7 Female Detectives You Don’t Want To Mess With
If you're looking for the best mystery books to read in 2020, check out these 7 female detectives you don't want to mess with.
Digital Killed the Local Media Star
Once upon a time, local media had a pretty simple shape. The newspaper landed on the porch. The radio station had a morning show with someone who knew how to pronounce the town names. The local TV anchor told you if school was closed, who got arrested, and whether the storm was headed your way. The classified ads were in the paper. The grocery store bought a full-page ad. The furniture store bought a radio remote. The car dealer sponsored the weather.
Privacy Policy Words Translated Into Human
Most of us do not read privacy policies or terms of service. We click Agree with the same emotional energy we use to swat a fly. We want the app. We want the coupon. We want to upload the photo. We want the recipe. We want the printer to work before we are old enough to qualify for a senior discount at places that already think we’re suspiciously clos
Is Google AI Looking at Your Gmail, Docs, and Everything Else?
Google has been adding AI features to Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Search, Android, and Gemini. Some of those features are handy. Some are creepy-feeling. Some are both at the same time, which is pretty much the official motto of modern technology.
LOCK IT DOWN: THE 8-STEP PLAN TO PROTECTING YOUR ACCOUNTS
You don’t have to be a computer expert to make life a whole lot harder for scammers
GOT A MINUTE? 20 ONE-MINUTE TECH FIXES THAT ACTUALLY HELP
These are 60-second fixes — little things you can do to your PC, phone or tablet right now that can free up storage, save battery life, improve performance or simply make your technology less annoying.
THE 10 WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO TO YOUR COMPUTER
Most people don’t deliberately abuse their computers. Nobody wakes up and thinks, You know what this laptop needs? A blocked air vent, 73 browser tabs and six years without a proper restart.
DESKTOP, LAPTOP, CHROMEBOOK OR TABLET?
Buying a new computer used to be relatively simple. You bought a computer. Now you walk into a store — or, more likely, open a website — and you're confronted with desktops, all-in-ones, laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, tablets, 2-in-1s and phones powerful enough to do things that required an entire office full of equipment 25 years ago.
SPEED UP YOUR PC IN 5 DAYS
Is your computer taking longer to get going in the morning than you do? Before you decide it's time to spend hundreds of dollars on a new one, give the old girl a little attention.
My Novel Purgatory Came to Me in a Dream
So, how much of Purgatory is real? This may be a dangerous question to ask me. Because the answer is: way more of it than you probably think.
DO MY DRIVERS UPDATE AUTOMATICALLY?
A reader recently sent us this question: “Do the drivers update automatic? My virus wear keeps saying they need updated. Not sure how to find them and to see if they do.” This is a good question because computers have an impressive ability to make a perfectly ordinary update sound like you're preparing a rocket for launch.