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Tech New Year’s Resolutions for 2020

New Year's resolutions

If you’re thinking about making some New Year’s resolutions for 2020, consider adding some tech related items to your list. While your health and financial situation are important, it’s okay to add some unconventional resolution to the mix. We rely so heavily on technology these days, it’s important that our computers, programs and devices are …

How to delete contacts from LinkedIn

Relationships change over time, and sometimes you need to part with certain contacts whether it’s personal or business relationships.  With social media, we get so many connections over time we don’t really think about if we should go through our past thousand contacts we may have and see if there are some to delete. It’s …

Google Photos – Unlimited, free, smaller.

I was chatting with family friends at a dinner the other night and this retired gentlemen was telling me how he stores all his photos on Google Photos and it’s unlimited.  I know as a tech there there’s always fine print.  So, I had to find out but I wasn’t going to start testing and confirming while …

Netflix – Is it really saving you money?

I’ve always wondered about this service but never investigated until now.  Netflix is aware of Internet bandwidth issues and so they posted information about managing it on their website via this page https://support.netflix.com/en/node/87 which says you can throttle your bandwidth use by changing the quality of your video. Let’s do some basic math now.  If you …

How to vote in Readers Choice Awards

The time has come to once again vote for your favorite business in the Markham Economist and Sun’s Readers Choice Awards.  It’s in the Markham Economist newspaper as of Thursday October 10th, 2013 on page 21.  You can fill out the paper or do it online.  Please vote “Twinbytes Inc” for the best in “Computer …

Delete old Linked In Contacts

It’s easy to unfriend someone on Facebook or unlike a page on Facebook since you just go to that page and click the Like button or Friend button again to unfriend or unlike them.  But with business contacts in Linked In, although it’s not complicated it’s not as easy to find so I’ll show you …