A Pain in the Whatchamacallit
By Tiny Ruisch
One of the few programs I spend money on is Evernote. I’ve used it for several years and find it indispensable. As I write this, I’ve got 634 notes saved in 71 notebooks. I’ve got eight notebooks just for SWLAPCUG stuff. I’ve got one notebook where I save stuff that I want to check later. I’ve been a little remiss in clearing out this notebook. There is 66 notes that I have to take action on. I thought this might be a good time to share some of my oddities with the club.
1. How to Use Your Laptop Like an External Monitor is an article from Make Use Of that I saved because I use multiple monitors. After rereading it, I’m deciding that it’s too much trouble. I’m deleting the note.
2. How to Disable the HomeGroup Feature in Windows (and Remove It from File Explorer) is a How To Geek tutorial. I forgot that I had saved it almost a year ago. I had made the changes on all my computers except the desktop. It’s changed now and the note is deleted.
3. Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with ADB was a Make Tech Easier article with a good tutorial for using the Android Debug Bridge (ADB). I moved it to my Android notebook so that I’ll know where to find it when I need it again.
4. How to Connect Multiple External Monitors to Your Laptop is another How To Geek article that I thought would be useful. After rereading it, I realized the advice was to plug the internal monitor into a port. Another one for the trash bin.
5. Make Tech Easier had an article titled 5 of the Best Camera Apps for Android You Should Try. I should delete this link to, but someday I’m going to try them.
6. ManualLib is a useful site for downloading manuals for just about everything. Good thing I’m writing this article because I finally got the link moved from Evernote to my web browser links.
7. I saved this article from Android Central. Best Universal Lenses For Android Phones is a review of attachable camera lenses. I was thinking about spending a little money and getting one. After further reflection I decided not to waste my money. My Canon camera takes better pictures.
8. I made a note on the Q4 Operating System. I have computers with various Linux Distros, Windows 10, 7 and XP, and iOS. I thought about trying this one, but deleted it.
9. Media Bias Fact Check is an online media outlet dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices. I don’t remember where I originally found out about the site, but I put a link (right underneath Snopes) on my browser home page.
10. TV Series Finale is a site that I added to my browser entertainment bookmarks. It keeps users up to date on whether a TV show has been renewed, canceled or put on hiatus. There is also a lot of other television information on the site.
This is just ten of the actions I did. I don’t usually let my “action” notebook get so bloated. I guess I can blame it on spending too much time redoing the clubs’ website portal. Most of the remaining notes I deleted. There were a few that I have posted on the club forums. There were some that will end up in a future newsletter Mindbender. Out of the original 66 notes, I kept four for future action.
My next project is to review and clean out my seventy other notebooks. That will probably be a good project for next month on the cruise ship. I’ve got a feeling there will be more links posted on the club’s website.
Thanks for reading.