If you have older machines that are running Windows 7 you may have run into an issue where Windows Update gets stuck at the Preparing to install screen (seemingly forever). I've been able to get past this issue just by stopping the Windows update service, then applying the "July 2016 update rollup f...
I use PSI, an open source desktop chat client to connect to a jabber server I run at work, and also to connect to Google Talk (aka Google Chat, Google Messenger, Google Hangouts - whatever they are calling this XMPP based instant messenging service this week). I've used this setup for years, PS...
The way I read this, either a or b is true:
Not allowing folks to customize their default stream is forcing some devs to take matters in their own hands to offer workarounds. A Chrome extension by Micah Wittman (I haven't tried it yet but can't wait to install this) promises to provide some of the obviously missing functionality like: setti...
On August 1st, Google plans to drop support for older browsers. This is a good thing! Using an older browser makes it much more likely that you'll get a virus on your machine (at least if you run Windows), or succumb to a nasty javascript attack to steal your passwords (a browser on any OS is vuln...
As a user of Google Apps for a couple different domains, I was elated to find that Google has FINALLY rolled out the ability to log into a Google Apps account using the standard gmail login page, as well as enabled lots more Google features for Google Apps accounts. You can't limit these new feat...
Got this message from Google Voice today:
and received this handy transcription:
It's not a matter and I want to make a single. But I think the rest of the not. If you're not. You're gonna.
Unfortunately, Google Voice didn't recognize that the message had been left...
