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...

Recently more of the email that bypasses Gmail's spam filters has a return address with the suffix "*.xt.local". I've been...

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...

Google Blogger has been largely forgotten, but   over the past 1-2 years it's been receiving regular updates . Mostly these have been im...

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...

I'm now unable to use MarsEdit with Blogger on Mojave or High Sierra. When Google asks me to authenticate instead of getting the usual e...

Long ago I setup Google Voice as my son’s phone’s voicemail using “conditional call forwarding” on H2O Wireless mobile (very cheap, but also...

I’ve been contemplating migration to WordPress for almost a decade, but Google kept Blogger good enough to keep that headache at bay. Alas,...

Visiting Google’s official Blogger blog today I tried viewing comments on a May 2018 post (a list of things removed and a promise of future...

I’ve been using Google Voice for eons — starting before Google acquired GrandCentral. It saved me thousands on my daily mobile calls to my m...

… 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. ...

I got a notice from Google yesterday. tech.kateva.org had been quarantined as a phishing vector. Visitors would be warned away. I had a shor...

Wipe that iPhone to give to your child or sell? I’m sure you remembered to launch Google Authenticator and remove the device from your trust...

Apple has broken me. I’ve left iCloud Photo Stream shares for Google Photos. First I lost the ability to share from Aperture to Facebook. I...

How to upload images to a specific album in Google Photos: Create the album. You have to choose an existing photo to create it. Drag and ...

Google’s device activity page used to let me remove devices that I no longer used: https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity Today it l...

Google is tracking a curious uptick in government-backed (Russia, China, ?) attacks on journalist gmail accounts . They are suggesting two ...

I’ve been trying to get Chrome to open in one of my 15 user profiles since at least 2012 . I have visited an open SuperUser question on this...