On a stage in San Fransisco, California, on January 9th, 2007, Apple’s Chief Executive Steve Jobs told the audience that was in attendance, “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes the world,” he said. “Today Apple is going to reinvent
In 2016, we had a large number of celebrity deaths, from Prince to Princess Leia (Carrie fisher). For some reason, a website has decided to post a hoax celebrity death to start 2017. That hoax has now started making the rounds on Facebook. The hoax
One of the regular hoaxes, which seems to have a life of its own, involves Facebook charging users a service fee for its services. There are 1000s (seriously) of variations, but overall the hoax says that unless you share, or send the following post to
This week I came across an error with Amazon, while trying to launch the Amazon App Store. I received an error message concerning the “License Limit Reached”. The error happened after installing the Amazon App Store on a new device, when trying to log in.
Every year as the clock nears midnight on December 31st, the eyes of the world turn once more to the dazzling lights and bustling energy of Times Square. Anticipation runs high. New Year’s Eve at the symbolic center of New York City has become more
For those of you who got your new Windows 10 toy (aka a PC, Laptop, or Tablet), and are coming from a Windows 7 or Windows 8 environment, here are a couple of Windows 10 Tweaks to give you all the power of Windows 10
Deal Alert on the Kensington Folio Cover iPad (via WOOT!)
WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging subscription service for smartphones and selected feature phones that use the internet for communication. In addition to text messaging, users can send each other images, video, and audio media messages as well as their location using integrated
One of the issues that I’ve come across regularly, while trying to provide support, involves having to reinstall either the Windows operating system and/or the Microsoft Office software on a pc without having the product key (serial number). How do you recover the software product
You are showing your age, if you remember what keyboard commands like (holding down) Ctrl – C, Ctrl – V, Ctrl – X do. For those of you who are not familiar with keyboard short cuts, on a computer, a keyboard shortcut is a sequence
The on-screen keyboard on the iPad works well, but if you need to do a lot of typing a regular keyboard may make life easier. Keep in mind that any Bluetooth keyboard will work with an iPad, you don’t have to use the one from
To All Our Visitors – Merry Christmas With all the issues and changes we have had in 2016, we would really like to thank all those who have visited Tech Geek and More, and would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy
Seems Facebook is releasing an update to the Messenger App to allow for Group Video Chats in Facebook Messenger. According to a post in the Facebook Newsroom, the Group Video Chat will be “super easy to use”, and will allow up to 6 people
Not sure if you heard the latest Warning about Facebook. Facebook is coming after you (warning sarcasm alert ahead). If you didn’t know what Facebook has planned, read this……Latest Facebook Hoax That’s right, you can expect a run on Aluminum Foil the next time you
Yahoo has just posted information concerning a newly found breach of its systems. This hack of Yahoo systems appears to be unrelated to a previously announced breach in September 2016. Yahoo Announces New Breach According To Yahoo This time the Yahoo breach is reportedly affecting an astronomical 1