Have you ever looked at a picture and it looks like you’re zooming into the scene? That’s a “Zoom Burst”. In the photography community, we find divided opinions on it, some hate it, some love it, and some don’t care. I learned how to do it when I was doing a weekly photography challenge. Zoom…
If you have a fabulous Internet plan, count yourself lucky. In parts of our country, it’s not possible to work from home, watch a movie, or play a game that requires Internet connectivity. But what happens if you have a great Internet plan but you still can’t seem to watch a movie without it stuttering…
Controversy isn’t new to social media. I think I joined Facebook in 2006, but people were arguing politics and religion online long before then. There’s something about the tubes and wires of the World Wide Web that emboldens people to make bold, controversial statements, even when they know that people they see often will see…
I remember my first smartphone. It was an iPhone 3GS. I can’t remember how much storage it had, but I had to be extremely judicious with its use. I had to pick a very limited music playlist, I had to keep photos cleaned up and stored on my computer, and I could only bring in…
“Please state your name.” “Please say or enter your account number.” “Please give a brief description of the reason for your call.” You know when you’re talking to a robot; that emotionless voice on the other end of the line, the canned responses to anything you say, the limits on the available options. Chatbots, they’re…
Many years ago I became friends through other friends with a young man who had lost the use of his arms and legs. He was at a river with some friends in a boat, and he took a dive from the back of the boat into what he was sure was pretty deep water. It…
I get really excited when I have a new piece of tech gear. Even when I got my the equipment for my work-from-home office, I seriously enjoyed getting it set up. It’s probably pretty common, we want to play with our new toys and we often don’t give much thought to something important until it…
Over Labor Day weekend of 2024, my husband and I visited the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Neither of us had visited the museum before, and we were looking forward to it a lot. We both enjoy history museums, both for the facts and for the personal accounts. I recommend this experience…
I’m not an inventor. There, I said it, it’s out in the open. Truthfully, I doubt anyone ever figured I was, so nobody’s disappointed with my statement. When we picture an inventor, we imagine Caractacus Potts from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Doc Brown from Back to the Future. You know, people who seek to…
Living in a digital age means that device connectivity is of critical importance. While most of the time, it’s merely inconvenient when one of our devices won’t “talk” to another one. However, there are times when it absolutely has to work. Emergency services rely on stable connections. Business and financial transactions occur in fractions of…
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