With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose. Before I could set up the watch with the new phone I had to download and install a big OS update on the watch, which took most of an hour……
The new iPhone arrived this evening and I have it all set up… It’s pretty nice, and usable one-handed, which is a bonus. Oddly, I have to get another sim from Ting (my carrier) for the 5G capability of the iPhone, so that means getting a new number. And, in…
Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and in service fees… Some places would even give you the pager for free if you signed up for a yearly…
Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the fellow who bought the motherboard couldn’t get it to work and requested eBay refund his money. I responded to his…
I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies… Being a bit of a scholar of this sort of thing, back in 2004 I took the opportunity to go…
Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended to be purpose built for a specific function – like a Bulletin Board System, or BBS. My very first online…