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Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are web apps that feature a native Windows app experience, and can use features like push notifications. The addition of Service Worker support in EdgeHTML makes this all possible. Other platforms (iOS, Android) have had this…
All of my Alexa enabled devices are configured with the correct geo location, but I’ve had doubts for some time as to the accuracy of weather forecasts. We have a winter storm heading this way, I’ve got email alerts from…
Microsoft just announced that Cortana now works with IFTTT. Cortana has had an appalling lack of third party skills (still does) but at least IFTTT offers some hope to folks who have services and devices that are not natively supported…
Microsoft’s latest addition to the Surface Pro family is the Surface Pro LTE. If you are a road warrior, this is THE Surface SKU to get. While it may not be an “always connected PC” (ACPC) officially, it sure seems…
It’s not my fault that I’m very, very particular about how my music sounds. My dad was an audiophile who originally owned a record store and moved on to own radio stations. He’d build speakers for our home from scratch,…
Harman Kardon launched its Invoke Cortana powered speaker on October 22, 2017 into an arena dominated by Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. As many reviewers have noted, the Cortana powered speaker is very late to the game. The hardware is…
My previous post provided information ( primarily for home users) on how to turn off SMB1 to help avoid the bad guys who are out to cripple your Windows computer. Microsoft released some patches, and if you are totally up…
For the non technical computer users out there, this is a red alert. You many have heard of Wannacrypt. There’s a new variant out now. Even if you haven’t heard of this ransomware malware, please turn off SMB1 on your…
I really loved my Surface Pro 3 (purchased June 2014), but earlier this year, it became useless as a portable with a non functional battery. If I hadn’t encountered the (well known) battery issues, I would still be happily using…
I’ve been using Microsoft’s Authenticator App because not only does it support Azure Authentication (Office 365) but because it supports my Microsoft Account, Google account, and anyplace else that supports the OTP standard. Any site or service that supports RFC6238…