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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Stereo Recordings 

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

 Private Boxes

Christy and Joe talk about cages and independence on this week’s show.

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  1. Steve setting up a Google Free Android Phone
     
  2. Dean wants to get his own equipment for his home office Wi-Fi and internet.

“SkyNet Tunes In To Root for the Robots” 

“First Names Only”

“Google How NOT to Google” 

“Tech On”

“Whenever you can, throw a wire on it” 

“ZOOM hates the Wi-Fi”

“Wi-Fi is like a Bubble” 

“The Faraday Cage We Also Park Cars in”

“The Best Tech Call in Show in Eagle Valley” 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Side Loading

Sideloading generally is uploading a file to a phone. But usually it refers to installing an app outside an app store.

Fingerprinting

Colleting info from browser settings and other information to identify computers across websites..

VPN

A secure hidden tunnel from your computer to an exit node, hiding your traffic from your ISP

ISP

 

Internet Service Provider. The folks that provide your internet connect to you and who get to watch your browsing unless you are using a VPN or secure https: sites

On Prem

 

Equipment at the user site not in the cloud (on the internet) Backup can be on prem in a hard drive or in the cloud such as Microsoft One-Drive.

Mesh

 

More than one box to provide home Wi-Fi throughout a site without speed reduction of an extender. Mesh rebroadcasts the Wi-Fi AND has a dedicated channel for administration of the network.

Faraday Cage

 

.A metal enclosure that stops wireless signals (including radio and Wi-Fi) from getting out or in the boxed enclosure.

 

 

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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Stereo Recordings 

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

To Keep Your Voice Google Regularly 

Christy and Joe welcome callers, Stephen, Terri, and Joan.

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  1. Stephen finds his Google loses his Voice after two months 
  2. Terri and outsmarting the Smart TV.
  3. Joan’s computer takes naps. Oops. Hibernate saves to storage (hard drive) NOT memory! Some computers will wake from sleep with the power button.

“Essay Answer to a True/False Question”

“SmartTVs…get dumb quick” 

“Wiggle My Husband”

“‘Fast Startup’ is the backwards way of saying ‘Never Turn Off’” 

“Taste the Tech Next Tuesday”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Google Voice

Formerly GrandCentral, is an internet telephone service offered by Google. Can be used by special VoIP phones or computers.

VoIP

Voice over Internet Protocol. This protocol allows users to make telephone calls using the internet. 

Fast Startup

An advance power setting in Windows that keeps the computer on when the user shuts down the computer so the computer will start faster. 

 

 

 

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BBT from 2020

Going Off-Line At Times

Christy and Joe deal with  privacy, a battle with default monitor settings, off-line apps, and late night/early morning texts.

 

  1. Michelle has Fuzzy Characters on her Monitor. 
  2. Anne wants to compute without the internet! 

 

“Or I’ll Not Be Disturbed When I Wish To Be” 

“Oh that Crazy Latin phrasing. We love the Latin” 

 

 

TECH BATTLE PLANS


WIN+Shift+S

Allows you take to take a screen shot.

WIN+V

Menu of current and previous (history) clipboard contents. Enable in the Clipboard settings page in System

PDA

Personal Digital Assistance. SmartPhones without the phones.

Ad hoc

Local Wifi Network without the internet. See also Peer to Peer network.

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Google Google Gone

Christy, Joe, and has calls from Stephen, a follow up from Terry, and Joan 

 

  1. Stephen has a Google Phone that has gone asleep.
  2. Terry calls about her dumb SmartTV that we proved was broken. Win?!
  3. Joan fights her way through menus to keep her computer awake. Including the fast startup which is really never shutdown

 

“Fast Startup is really Never Shutdown.” 

“We’ll Continue To Have Calls Forever and Ever Because Nothing Stays the Same” 

 

 

TECH BATTLE PLANS


VOIP

Voice Over Internet Protocol – Phone calls made over the Internet.

 Sleep & Hibernate

Sleep uses a little power to save the computer status in memory while Hibernate saves the computer status to the Hard Drive and shuts off the computer.

 AIO

All in One the computer is packed inside the screen housing.

Epoch Time Converter

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