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Disabled google apps defaults

Grrr. 😉 https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/nexus/3Zjt6_bMucw

Guidestar.org useful…

…information for those in the not-for-profit community. Did you know – top compensation for registered U.S. nonprofits – matter of IRS public record. Example here – local (sic?) clinic north side Chicago. From guidestar.org.

Recent Android Updates – Mobile Data…

…Come one, come all? For my budget conscious clientele. Tunein alone will chew through a small to medium to perhaps large ting.com (sprint) data bucket at this rate. Clarifying – background data – not listening to anything mobile. Search “android “restrict app background data”” and you’ll get hits going back years – see cnet.com “11 […]

google apps & google news

Some adjustments required. enabling news “officially” for your domain. adjusting settings at news.google.com (feeds to “google now”?) seldom-sometimes-often-always are the options. some ref. sites say “never” used to be an option. Preparing for “marshmallow” android, google now & related got me looking at this options. A few screen shots below.

Use with caution but…

blogspot google drive plug-in Note publication date of 21 July 2015. Reviews as of today? Ongoing support from google.com as well as microsoft.com? Still has the new car smell. The ash tray won’t fill up for some time. 🙂

(another) Google Translate Tour

translate.google.com

whoa there big fella(s) II (the adventure continues…)

recaptcha “fix” breaks things to an even greater degree. Unable to logon to web site plus – can’t logon using google.com provided “emergency file”. Geek fix – rename the plugin directory.

Whoa there big fella(s) – buggy wordpress patch for reCaptcha

This is going to cause some grief for the less geeky wordpress audience…crashes wordpress sites. Just happen on barfooinc.net wordpress patching today. All your site visitors get is something along the lines of: Parse error Syntax error in google-captcha.php instead of your site. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parse-error-syntax-error-in-google-captchaphp Contiued 27 Aug 2015. Had to disable /wp-content/plugins/google-captcha completely. The fix […]

To err is human…

What’s up doc? I can: Share View Information Delete Dot Dot Dot (more) But edit from desktop is gone, gone gone. Again what’s up doc (google.com)?  

Interesting omission – malware & virus via advertising…

Found it interesting they found time to mention “ethics” but made no mention of: malware virus Both known to masquerade as internet advertising & often unmonitored by paid site. AD BLOCKERS AND THE NUISANCE AT THE HEART OF THE MODERN WEB Note the funky formatting on the bullet list. Latest wordpress – still a work […]