Google App Gets A Whole Lot Smarter

The Google mobile App for iOS and Android devices has become smarter.

It's always been able to answer specific questions, like "Who is George Washington".

The app can analyze a question and answer specific qualifiers such as tallest, largest, or first.

Using the voice search option makes asking these questions even easier.

Consider these questions:

     -  What is the tallest building in the United States?

     -  What is the largest city in the United States?

     -  Who was the fifth president of the United States?

In addition, the brains behind the app can provide information based upon specific dates or other key events.

For example, "Who was the president of the United States in 1911?"

Other examples of more complex questions include "Who was the Vice President of the United States when the Titanic sank?"

These improvements brings natural language computers even closer to human capabilities.

Google can still get questions wrong.  But it's an amazing new leap forward.

The mobile Google App is available for iOS HERE and for Android HERE.

Enjoy!

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"Find My Device" is New Feature of Windows 10 in November 2015 Update

By now you should have received the November 2015 update to Windows 10.

This automatic update released last week brings many behind-the-scene fixes as well as new features and capabilities.

The most interesting new feature is a "Find My Device" feature builtin to Windows 10.

We've told you about this type of service available for PCs and Macs.  Now a basic service is built into Windows 10.

While the feature is now available, users must turn it on by going to: Settings> Update & Security> then Find My Device.

To Find Your Device

1. Ensure you are logged in with the same Microsoft account that you log into your PC
2. Go to http://account.microsoft.com/devices
3. Choose the device you want to locate and click Find My Device.
4. You'll see a map with your device's location.

Enjoy!

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How to Find Customer Service Phone Numbers Using Google Search

Have a problem with a product or service and need to call customer service?  What's the number?

Use Google to quickly find the phone number, usually toll free.

Here's how.

1.  Go to http://www.google.com ot use the search Google search in Google Chrome.
2.  Enter the search 'xxx customer service number' where "xxx" is the company name.
3.   Sears Customer Service Number
4.  Google will return the following results:

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This Hack Will Let You Use Siri Hands-Free Even on Older iPhones and Not Be Connected to Power

One of the cooler features of the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is the ability to use Siri hands-free without being plugged in.

Earlier iPhone models such as the 5, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus only allow the voice-activated Siri while the device is plugged in for power.

But there is a cool hack that allows the older devices to activate Siri with the "Hey, Siri" command.

Here's how to do it.

1. Ensure that the "Hey Siri" command is enabled in settings (Settings, General, Siri, Allow "Hey Siri")
2. Press the home button once to activate Siri and ask a simple question like "What Time is It?"
3. After Siri answers, Siri will accept the "Hey Siri" command for another question.
4. You can continue to ask Siri questions, hands-free, and not be connected to power.
5. If the screen times out and locks, you'll no longer be able to use this trick.  You can change the length of time for the lock screen in settings.

Of course, the reason that Apple requires Siri to be connected to power in the older models is to conserve battery strength.  But there are times when this hands-free trick can be handy, like in the kitchen.

So enjoy!

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Google's New "About Me" Lets You Manage Your Profile Information in One Place

What have you told Google about yourself?

Not much?

If only it was that simple.

As Google has acquired a variety of services over the years, your Google-wide profile may reveal more information than you remember.

Google has released a new tool, About Me, to let you see what Google has as your profile information.

http://aboutme.google.com

The new site allows you to edit key profile sections: 

• Personal Contact Info
• Education
• Work History
• Sites
• Places
• Gender, Birthdays, More
• Privacy

This is a great new capability to review profile information that Google has on each user.  Be sure to check it out to ensure that you are only sharing information that you mean to share.

Enjoy!

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How to Use Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

It's not very obvious but Facebook has a number of useful keyboard shortcuts when using a web browser on the Windows PC or Macintosh.

Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts

Press the following keys:

j or k - Scroll up or down in News Feed
p - Post a new status
l - Like or Unlike a story
c - Comment on the selected story
s - Share the selected story
o - Open the attachment of the selected story
<Enter> - See more of the selected story
/ - Search
? - More shortcuts

That's it!  Use these keyboard shortcuts the next time you are using Facebook on the web.  facebook has a few more keyboard shortcuts to access other others besides the News Feed.  Press ? to see them when you are in Facebook.

Enjoy!

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How to Use "Pin Tab" to be More Effective with Google Chrome

How many browser tabs do you have open?  Just one or more, many, many more?

We all do it.  An open tab for email, one for Facebook, one for watching an Ebay auction, and a few more searches.

It's called "tab creep".  We're all creatures of habit and the tabs we have from left-to-right usually indicate the importance of the tabs.  We open the most important ones first.

Google Chrome has a cool tip managing the tabs.  Specifically, any tab can be "pinned".  By pinning a tab, it will shrink and move to the left.  In addition, if Chrome is closed, pinned tabs will be retained when the browser is opened next.

To pin a tab, right-mouse click on the tab and select "Pin Tab" from the dropdown menu.

You'll notice that pinned tabs lose the close "x".  To close a pinned tab, right-mouse click on the pinned tab and select "close tab".  To unpin, right-mouse click and select "unpin" tab.

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Access Prospective Search in iOS 9 For Quick Access to People, Apps, News and Nearby Restaurants

A very cool but often overlooked feature of iOS 9 is prospective search.

It's easily accessible from the home screen by <swiping> right.

This page shows your most recent contacts as well as most recent apps, tops news and nearby places such as restaurants, gas stations and convenience stores. (In the screenshot above, I scrolled down a bit to show the news but that hid the most recent contacts.)

Clicking the Breakfast icon will show a map and list nearby restaurants.  The Breakfast icon changes by the time of day to lunch or dinner.

This is a hidden gem in iOS 9.  Check it out!  Enjoy.

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Let Cortana Translate For You

Parlez-vous Français?

Cortana, Microsoft's personal digital assistant, has been updated in Windows 10 to offer translations in 38 languages

Users can ask Cortana to translate via verbal or written requests and Cortana will answer with audio and written replies.

To try this yourself, ensure that Cortana is active in Windows 10, then either type your request or say "Hey Cortana", then "Translate "Word, phrase or sentence you want to to translate" in 'Language you want to translate to'.

Of course, change the request to something like "Translate 'Where are the bathrooms?' in Spanish'".

This new capability adds the recently introduced translation capabilities in the Microsoft Skype audio/video chat service.

As Cortana improves and expands, this service will be more useful in mobile devices.

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How to Plug in a USB Cable Correctly Every Time!

Does the USB plug in this way or that?

Since the plug ONLY plugs in one way correctly, you should have a 50/50 chance of plugging the USB cord in right.

But it seems to be the wrong way 100% of the time.

What crazy engineer designed it this way? And when will they fix it?

That problem will change as the latest USB standard USB-C, becomes the norm in new computers, mobile phones and peripheral devices such as Bluetooth speakers.  The new standard will be faster, more universal, and most importantly, allow the USB plug to be reversible.  It will plug in either way.  But the downside is that all existing USB cords will be obsolete.  That's how technology rolls.

Until then, how can you tell which way the USB cord should plug in?

There are two simple answers.

Logo

The top side of the USB plug will <generally> display the USB logo.  

Just make sure the logo is on top when you plug the cable in.  

This is the easiest. way to ensure the USB will plug in correctly.  

But not all USB cable manufacturers bother to put the logo on the USB plug or the plug cord is so dark that the logo is hard to see.  

Oh well.

Seam

The other solution is to look at the metal plug itself.  

The bottom always has a seam running thru the middle.  

That means that side should always be down when you plug it in.

That's it.  Next time you need to plug in a USB cord, take a quick look for the top-side logo or the bottom-side seam.

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