TechByter Worldwide 2024-10-11: Sidelined By Covid.

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Here’s where I would mention the upcoming topics, but there aren’t any this week. That’s because Phyllis and I both contracted covid after avoiding it entirely for more than four years. I’m better now, but there’s not enough time to finish the program that would have been here. I’ll pick things up again next week.

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-10-11: Sidelined By Covid.

TechByter Worldwide (formerly Technology Corner) with Bill Blinn

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#Techynology #Hardware #Software #Home Office #Small Office #Windows #Mac #Linux #News #Tech News #Blinn

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-12-20: Are You Getting The Speed You’re Paying For? Short Circuits. 13:58

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-12-13: Beware The Growing Threat Of SMS And RCS Scams. Short Circuits. 18:35

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Text messages on our phones are so easy to use and so common that it’s all too easy to forget how useful they are to scammers. Every text message should be treated with suspicion. In Short Circuits: Recently I needed to format a 64GB thumb drive using FAT32, one of the older formatting types. The Windows formatting tool won’t allow it, so maybe you think the FAT32 limit is 32GB. It’s not and formatting the large drive turned out to be refreshingly easy. • Sometimes I wonder if Tim Berners-Lee or Marc Andreessen had any idea, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that the browsers they were developing to view simple text files would expand and virtually take over the world.…

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-12-06: New And Improved For Photographers From Adobe For 2025. Short Circuits. 17:01

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Some of Adobe’s improvements in Photoshop and the other photographic applications are little short of magic. Boring and cumbersome tasks can be handled by AI, giving photographers more time for creativity. In Short Circuits: If you’ve ever had your Facebook account stolen by thieves, or know someone who has been a victim, you understand how difficult it is to recover the account, if recovery is even possible. That’s why you should act now to enable security measures for your account, particularly two-factor authentication.…

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-11-29: There is no podcast this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. 16:23

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Because there is no program during Thanksgiving week, here is a link to last week’s podcast.

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-11-22: How To Get Rid Of A Key You Despise. Short Circuits. 16:23

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-11-01: How To Get A Better Start Menu. Short Circuits. 18:18

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TechByter Worldwide 2024-10-25: Free Access To News Sources From Your Library. 20:39

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