Gordon's Tech

I did a review of Qustodio’s parental control product for iOS on my special needs blog . It wasn’t a positive review. The product routes all...

I like to listen to medical and historical podcasts on my commutes. I have years of material in iTunes and limited listening time, I don’t n...

My new  $160 32” 2015 720p Roku TCL TV records up to 90 minutes of OTA TV.  This “Live TV Pause” was added to Roku OS in Nov 2016 — just 3 ...

There’s a lot I like about Scrivener , a writer’s integrated development environment with compilation to platform specific documents. I’m no...

It may require federal legislation, but someday text messaging services will interoperate. Today, however, we have cruddy old SMS, held in ...

For my book project I searched my  moto E test phone  (Android 5.1) user guide for “child” and “restriction” and “parental”.  I found “prod...

This post is based on  my two star Amazon review of our 3yo paper-jamming Brother HL6180DW : We've had this printer for 3 years. Ear...

I'm using Scrivener to write  Smartphones for All - Using iPhone and Android to build independence for atypical minds . It’s brilliant ...

I was once an enthusiastic user of Quicken for DOS — despite an annoying tendency to database corruption. Each month I’d receive a 3.5” disk...

This posts could go on for hours, but I’m racing a 20 minute timer [2]. I think it’s still worth sharing. Until this year I used an ugly co...

I think OS X Mail.app for Yosemite is a pretty good Gmail client. The one big problem is that one must download the entire archive, though t...

Ten ( ten !) years I wrote in this blog … Gordon's Tech: Tivoli PAL (or iPAL): the iPod speaker accessory of choice? … At $130 the price...

Remember the great American Digital TV Transition of 2008 ? Our elected representatives explained that while some would see more channels an...

[This post was first written in 2013 and then revised in April 2016.] When Emily said she was interested in Trello , on a day when I was at...

After much   deliberation , and on the advice of @la  and other appnetizens, I bought a Kobo Glo from, oddly enough, Common Good Books . I ...

The Maxell AirStash Wireless 8GB Flash Drive  [1] is designed to stream movies to kid's handheld devices on long car rides [3]. It proba...

I used an Apple LaserWriter Select 360 for about twenty years . When I could no longer buy a cartridge for it I got five years from a  Broth...

I think with the HL-2270DW  and its TN-450 toner cartridge Brother has figured out how to apply the ink-jet business model to the previou...

I have about 2,200 Contacts, and if they could speak they'd all complain about iOS Contacts.app. The bizarre Groups implementation, the ...

I bought my 83 yo mother the unlocked GSM  Snapfon ezONE-C Senior Cell Phone with Big Buttons  for about $80 (it's $60 now) along with i...