Ideas from Mark Stout

Have family members needing a lot more hand holding on their PCs than you want to give?  A Chromebook might be a good gift this Christmas. The latest  Family Tech  is up.

Be sure what attachments you are opening.  Otherwise, it could cost you big. The new  Family Tech  is available.

Once upon a time I was a Road Warrior. Lessons learned about using tech while travelling. The  latest Family Tech  is online. Links post is  here .

When Google Keep first appeared, myself and others thought it was Google’s attempt to make an Evernote type product. I had long thought Google should acquire Evernote, or barring that, create their own personal note storage system.   Google’s mission seems to be indexing all the world’s information.  That should include our own personal information, but before they can index it and let us search on it, they need to give us a place to store information. Perhaps that is still their intent, but if it is, they are getting there at a snail’s pace.  There have been few upgrades to Keep. The only really major upgrade was the addition of reminders; adding a date and time to a note and having the app alert you when appropriate. At our Google+ Keep community a poster wondered if perhaps Keep was not actually intended to replace Google Tasks.

What is it?  Why we should worry about?  And how it is being imperiled. Latest Family Tech  is online.

Apple introduced two new iPhones, and our town now has an Apple Store.  Open today! New Family Tech posted.

I revisit cord cutting with a discussion of some new trends, the Google Chromecast, and some comments on Comcast. A new Family Tech column