Gordon's Tech

I think this is an interesting example of what works and doesn't work on the personal AI front in early 2024. My son was given a printed...

My son has an email address of the form tim@familyname.com where familyname.com is a pseudonym for a domain I own with legacy free Google Ap...

When I travel every bit of IT in our family starts to malfunction. On a recent trip this included Emily's emails, they were intermittent...

UPDATE : As of early May 2022 Google has relented and will allow continued personal use of legacy G Suite domains . You need to login to you...

I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it'...

If you are using Blogger Draft you will find that it works fairly well in Safari.app and Chrome.app for iOS. The new interface is responsive...

For years I’ve launched gmail and gcalendar on my Mac using apps in my user/application folder I’d named gCal.app and gMail.app. I loved the...

… we’re living in a time when algorithmic software is just good enough to eat the world and still bad enough to be endlessly frustrating. ...

This is one heck of a time saver. Didn’t realize Google Docs allowed this.

Every 1-3 years I write a “solstice letter”. Since 2010 or so I’ve used Google Docs; it’s the best match to sharing it via PDF and web.  To...

A book project  forced me to dig into a perennially painful topic — Calendar sharing and subscription in iOS and OS X (MacOS Yosemite) for G...

I noticed my daughter was receiving email sent from my iPhone with my email address but the sender name of “Gmail personal”. It took a whil...

In the beginning we wrote web pages in BBEdit and we FTPd them to a NeXT box. Things progressed quickly. Almost two decades ago, when Micro...

Please don’t put data into iOS Notes. Really, it’s quite horrid [1] If you do you may find it’s stuck there. We ran into this when my daugh...

It’s hard to imagine now, but once upon a time Google gave big stuff away. Until Dec 2012 anyone could get extended family Google Apps serv...

It is hard for Americans to understand how awful Canada’s mobile and Internet options are . Imagine that your only option for cell and net a...

I don’t use iCloud for much - Apple’s cloud functionality is almost as lacking as its reliability. Our family has used Google Calendar for 7...

For a few years Google offered a free version of Google Apps, and even after that was discontinued you could get a free Apps service with a ...

It's simple, at least in Chrome. Control-Click on the Compose button. Your Compose opens in a tab - with To and Subject line exposed, ...

I've been using  Golden Hill Software's CloudPull Premium  ($15 now, I only paid 410 due to a promo, TidBITS users can jump get a 20...