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Texting May Work When Everything Else Fails
Our recent experience with hurricane Irma confirms the wisdom of not putting all of your eggs in one basket. The storm interrupted communications for hours. Immediately afterward, my phone had a good RF connection to T-Mobile’s cell site, but no IP (Internet Protocol) connection. Text messaging using SMS (Short Message Service) worked fine. (SMS is a telephone — not Internet — protocol. It’s…
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Non-Replaceable Phone Batteries Make No Sense
My recent experience with hurricane Irma confirms my scepticism of cell phones whose batteries aren’t user-replaceable. Most of the newest phones, in an effort to make them thin, use batteries that can’t be quickly replaced. Apple began this sorry trend and Samsung followed suit. Even in good weather, I’m often away for 14 to 16 hours, during which I use my phone. When its battery dies, I pop in…
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Why Are Our Warships Colliding?
The guided missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain have recently crashed into huge merchant ships. This is shocking, disgraceful, and unacceptable. Two collisions in two months indicates that there’s one or more major fleet-wide problem. These collisions occurred in the western Pacific Ocean and reflect poor navigation and ship handling skills. My limited warship experience When I was…
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Prevent Aircraft Crashes
I’ve always enjoyed reading Flying magazine’s “Aftermath” and “I Learned About Flying From That” monthly columns. Both contain forensic examinations of general aviation calamities — from narrow escapes to fatal disasters. In flight, there are thousands of things that can go wrong. Most flights can survive one or two failures, but bad things happen when multiple failures stack up against the…
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Live Music Streaming Via Periscope
I’ve been using the Periscope app on my Android phone to stream live music from Fort Lauderdale. Music genres include solo guitar, rock, reggae, and Cuban. South Florida has always been blessed with hordes of great musicians. These “scopes” contain some of them. You can browse through my “scopes” by clicking www.pscp.tv/therussbellew. What’s Periscope? Periscope is a live streaming video app.…
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Tweets As Prose Haiku
I like simple English. Long words and complex sentences only obscure meaning. Our goal should be to express ourselves in as few words as possible. Have you ever tried to write a Haiku? It’s a Japanese poem style which contains seventeen syllables in three lines. Its terse form imposes discipline. Try writing a Haiku. It’s not easy. Twitter imposes a 140 character limit on tweets. It’s sufficient…
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Gordon Welchman, Codebreaker
Gordon Welchman was an Englishman who, while working on decoding German messages at Bletchley Park during World War II, invented traffic analysis. His idea was that even if one couldn’t decipher message contents, just tabulating who messaged whom, when, and how frequently, lent knowledge about the enemy. After the war, he emigrated…
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Walt Mossberg, WSJ Tech Critic
I just listened to an excellent interview with Walt Mossberg, who since 1991 wrote a weekly computer industry column for the Wall Street Journal. Walt’s now retired. Leo Laporte, an industry podcaster, coaxes some great stories from Mr. Mossberg. Walt’s perspective was always that of a user — not a tech freak. Most industry reporters are techies who don’t appreciate that most of us don’t care…
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Google, the app killer
Meebo, Picasa, Wave, Google Plus . . . All of these useful apps were killed by Google. Google has a fickle reputation. More often than not, they quickly kill struggling projects, rather than refine them. Compare this to Microsoft. Excel, Word, Access, Internet Explorer, Windows Server, Windows itself — all were weak also-ran competitors to much stronger market leaders. Yet in each case Microsoft…
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Why some videos have disappeared from this blog
Why some videos have disappeared from this blog
Some videos that I’ve linked to in this blog are no longer available, for one or more reasons: Someone has claimed a copyright and objects to its being published here, A video hosting or file sharing service has changed its policies or is no longer on line, I’ve goofed in any of dozens of ways. I hate seeing these dead links. In some cases without the video, the article is pointless, so I’m…
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Stop annoying pop ups on your phone's web browser(s)
Stop annoying pop ups on your phone’s web browser(s)
When using my Android phone, I’ve become reluctant to click on links to unknown websites because many — maybe most — of them contain obnoxious pop ups. I’ve stopped this by disabling Javascript in my phone’s web browsers(s). Each browser is different, but in general go to the Settings for your web browser and turn off Javascript. Most browsers will allow exceptions to this Javascript off rule.…
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Dropbox Uploads Consume Available Space
I notice that the Android Dropbox app, when uploading a file to the Dropbox server, first copies the source file to a cached file. Then it uploads the cached file to the Dropbox server. Why? I don’t know for certain. Maybe the app developers wanted to ensure that the source file isn’t altered during the upload process. So what? The cached file consumes precious storage space on your phone.…
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Piscine DELIGNY, Paris When I travel, I like to find local swimming facilities. The oddest one was Piscine DELIGNY, a floating barge that contained a swimming pool(!), on the River Seine in Paris.
Speeding Up Twitter On Android
I’ve been using Twitter on my Android phone and noticed that over a period of days or weeks it slows to a crawl. A simple way to kick back into high gear is to exit Twitter and just delete all of its data, and then restart Twitter. On my Android 5 phone, I go to Settings, Applications, and Application Manager, and scroll down to Twitter, then ptess the Delete Data button. Answer Y you do wish to…
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Piscine DELIGNY, Paris
When I travel, I like to find local swimming facilities. The oddest one was Piscine DELIGNY, a floating barge that contained a swimming pool(!), on the River Seine in Paris. I’d guess that the pool was about 25 meters long by 20 meters wide. It was surrounded by two floors of private changing rooms. There was even a unique “ski nautique” concession: a winch powered by an electric motor would pull…
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Wikileaks publishes DNC emails
Yesterday, Wikileaks published almost 20,000 emails that were purloined from the Democratic National Committee. You may search the emails on this page. Overnight, evidence was discovered within these emails.of a conspiracy within the DNC to hinder presidential candidate Bernie Sanders; a close relationship between DNC and the mainstream media. Twitter is jumping with revelations from these…
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Google reviews must include text
I tell my SEO (Search Engine Optimization) clients that “Five-star Google reviews are like gold”. One client listened and encouraged customers to write reviews . . . which his customers did. Unfortunately, while they scored my client as a five-star vendor, their reviews included no text. None. These five-star reviews with no text are, as far as I can tell, worthless. Google places them at the end…
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