ISSUE 21.17.1 • 2024-04-23 By Susan Bradley The April updates have been relatively quiet, with some exceptions. That’s why I’m lowering the MS-DEFCON level to 4. Most of my concerns lie not...
ISSUE 21.17 • 2024-04-22 HARDWARE By Susan Bradley You’re probably thinking this article is about cleaning paper dust from a printer or fixing a stuck pick-up wheel. We all deal with that sor...
HARDWARE By Susan Bradley How do you plan for getting rid of your old phone? Eventually, you will get a new phone. Perhaps you dropped your iPhone 9 into the bathtub. Perhaps your iPhone 7’s ba...
HARDWARE By Will Fastie After 25 years, I’m changing the way I work. Many hardware changes are on the horizon. You may recall my previous articles about building my Windows 11 PC, named Obsidia...
HARDWARE By Will Fastie I’m filled with angst about Microsoft getting out of the PC accessories business. PC peripherals of any kind are a very personal matter. But those with which we interact...
Now that busy season is over for me, I’ll be doing some long overdue upgrade projects. At the office I’ll be planning on upgrading my Windows 11 22H2 machines to 23H2 (more on this in an upco...
ISSUE 21.16 • 2024-04-15 Look for our BONUS issue on Monday, April 22! WINDOWS 11 By Lance Whitney Frustrated because your Windows laptop runs out of juice at the worst possible times? There ar...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/how-to-preserve-your-battery-charge-on-a-windows-11-laptop/
PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston The blogosphere has been going nuts lately after learning that Apple quietly turned on by default an iPhone setting known as “Discoverable by Others.” Desp...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/apple-turns-on-discoverable-by-others-should-you-worry/
MICROSOFT 365 By Peter Deegan Microsoft Forms is a good way for anyone to gather info for polls and surveys, or test with an online quiz. If only the links to Excel were more elegant and straight...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/create-awesome-forms-and-quizzes-with-microsoft-forms/
PATCH WATCH By Susan Bradley It’s raining CVEs. There are definitely going to be two groups of patchers this month. One will say, “Issues? What issues? My computer updated without issues.” ...
https://www.askwoody.com/2024/a-deluge-of-vulnerabilities-for-april/