Ideas from Mark Stout

I wrote here on March 23 about my delight the first time I made a Google Now voice note "Note to self:" and how Google Now prompted me to send it to Gmail or to Google Keep. Previously the only option was to send it to Gmail.  I have a Gmail filter to send any "Note to self" emails on to my Evernote account. Now a Lifehacker.com post by Whitson Gordon alerted me that now Evernote is included in that option. Evernote did not appear on my list options before when I made a note with Google Now.  I wonder if it is not a new capability added by Evernote when they released Version 5 for Android about that time. On my Android phone I went to Settings, Applications and brought up the record for Google Search (which is really Google Now). Then I scrolled down and touched the button Clear Defaults . Then I went into Google Now and made a voice "Note to Self".  This time the option box had three choices: Email, Keep and Evernote. I went ahead...

I save this blog for my geekiest posts and haven't been doing much geeky things lately; instead concentrating on more technology for the family issues in my column. Although I have started doing a bit more geeky things in the column, with How-To support on its blog, like the recent column on consolidating a families photos from their many camera phones, to one place. However, I just worked out something geeky, and wanted to document it here for others that might search for a solution in the future. When I first bought my Galaxy S III (I'll call it the Galaxy S3 here too for searching purposes), it did not have Google Now on it.  So I started using Samsung's own S Voice. When Jelly Bean made it to the S3, Google Voice became available. However, when I click the button on my Bluetooth earpiece, it was S Voice that came up. One night I decided to sit down and solve that problem, thinking it would be relatively easy. I did find some good resources, but som...