My Windows 10 Showed up
My laptop has updated to Windows 10. I'm blogging about it over at FamilyTechOnline.com.
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Email into Evernote if you do not have Premium
Recently Evernote reduced a feature of the Free tier. Now only five emails a month can be made to your Evernote account, unless you have Premium level. Lifehacker.com reports on Digital Inspiration's post telling about how you can use the Evernote Gmail clipper to send Gmails to Evernote. And Lifehacker goes on to note two IFTTT.com recipes to send information to Evernote via email. There are not perfect, but they get back some of the lost functionality.
A Day Learning about Early Aviation
Yesterday, I went on a day long tour of early aviation artifacts and sites located in the Washington DC area organized by Smithsonian Associates ( link to tour ) The tour was lead by Paul Glenshaw . Paul was acknowledged for his help by David McCullough in his book :" The Wright Brothers ", a book I read in preparation of this tour. We first visited the National Air and Space Museum to view the early Wright gliders, and of course,the 1903 Wright Flyer. We also saw Lilienthal's early glider, and the Langley Aerodrome. #5 . This aircraft was flown successfully unmanned near my home, off of Chopawamsic Island ( map ) itself just off Quantico Marine Base. The next visit was the Smithsonian Castle. The garden there was the site of Professor Langley's construction of the Aerodrome. ' Afterwards we visited Haines Point , site of the unsuccessful attempt to fly the powered Aerodrome by pilot Charles Manly. Next was ...
Family Tech: Time to step away from the landline. Here's how.
Why and how I stepped away from our landline. A new Family Tech column.
Google Voice improves voicemail transcriptions
The Google Voice/Project Fi/Hangouts team has announced improved voice mail transcriptions .
Anker Compact Car Jump Starter and Portable Charger
If it were from anyone but Anker, I'd be dubious, but I own several Anker products and love their products. This is not only a portable charger for your devices, but will jump start your car . It will jump start your car 15 times! Amazon Affiliate Link
Open Office 365 Files from Google Drive
Google released an add-on for Office 365 allowing a user to open and save Office 365 files to your Drive space. You can download it here .