To @Apple, please make a way to turn off Siri's "witty" remarks to simple tasks, like setting a timer. Same four jokes, over and over and...

To @Apple, please make a way to turn off Siri's "witty" remarks to simple tasks, like setting a timer. Same four jokes, over and over and...

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) August 13, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Kudos to @RandPaul for fighting Civil Asset Forfeiture. Americans are supposed to be Innocent until Proven Guilty. https://t.co/JxRYqHNjMY

Kudos to @RandPaul for fighting Civil Asset Forfeiture. Americans are supposed to be Innocent until Proven Guilty. https://t.co/JxRYqHNjMY

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) August 3, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

@bollingermotors What's the Retail Price expected to be?

What's the Retail Price expected to be?

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) July 30, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

@bollingermotors Love the B1 off-roader concept Truck! https://t.co/0lFqhJHt0K When can we BUY one?! ;)

@bollingermotors Love the B1 off-roader concept Truck! https://t.co/0lFqhJHt0K When can we BUY one?! ;)

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) July 28, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

@camelfarmer why does @Amazon not allow camelcamelcamel to track "Kindle Edition" products?

@camelfarmer why does @Amazon not allow camelcamelcamel to track "Kindle Edition" products?

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) July 27, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Wrong @SCMagazine to link @telegram in Headline of story https://t.co/0xKlTmJki6 Trying Guilt-by-Association, just bc badguys use it too??

Wrong @SCMagazine to link @telegram in Headline of story https://t.co/0xKlTmJki6 Trying Guilt-by-Association, just bc badguys use it too??

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) July 12, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

The @NintendoAmerica Super NES Classic is a Great Idea! (I hope you make enough this time.) But were is *Super Mario All-Stars* ?? So sad...

The @NintendoAmerica Super NES Classic is a Great Idea! (I hope you make enough this time.) But were is *Super Mario All-Stars* ?? So sad...

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) July 5, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Explanation of Bitcoin

Here is a good, simple, non-tech-jargon explanation of Bitcoin and Blockchain:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-absolute-beginners-mohit-mamoria

Hope that helps!
-J

Why @WinnDixie do I need to "Activate" any/all @PlentiRewards Offers manually?? Just make it automatic! +YES to ALL+ This is tedious & dumb.

Why @WinnDixie do I need to "Activate" any/all @PlentiRewards Offers manually?? Just make it automatic! +YES to ALL+ This is tedious & dumb.

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) June 28, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

How To Delete Gmail Older Than X-number of Years

Recently I had the opportunity to help a friend that was approaching the space-limit for his Gmail account. He needed a quick way to delete all email older than three years old. Google has made this really easy. In the search bar, type older_than:3y

And this will display all email older than that date. You can simply check the [_] all box, and the link to select all conversations that match this and trash them.

This might take a few minutes if you have a LOT of mail that needs to be filtered through. But be patient and let it finish.

Then go to your Trash label, and check the [_] all box, and the link to select all conversations that match this and [Delete Forever] them.


UPDATE (20190513): You can also search based on file size, so for example "older_than:7y size:10m" would search Gmail for all emails that are older_than 7 years, and larger than 10MB.

Welcome to a New Era in Messaging -- Telegram

The single unified multi-platform open-source secure multimedia Instant Messenger I've been looking for!

Welcome to:

https://telegram.org/

I am extremely impressed with the design and execution of this application:

• It truly does run on nearly every platform and is very consistent across multiple platforms.
• Cloud Based Device Synchronization: Telegram intelligently runs on multiple devices, and knows when you've viewed a message, and clears the "new message" badge from other devices.
• Chat on PC, Cell, Tablet, etc. and switch between them seamlessly.
• Can be used even on WiFi only devices (like kid's phone &/or tablet)
• Can make Voice Calls on WiFi or cell-data between Telegram clients.
• Group chats with up to 5000 simultaneous participants
• Voice memos in-chat.
• Send images, documents, and files of any type. 
• There is no need to worry about disk space on your device. With Telegram’s cloud support and cache management options, Telegram can take up nearly zero space on your phone.
• There's no username/password to keep up with - simply sign up using a textable mobile phone and you can authenticate other devices from there.
• It uses the wonderfully good emoji set from iOS.
• Secure and Encrypted Communication.
• Fastest IM client available today.
• Telegram is FREE and Open-Source. And will stay free — no ads, no subscription fees, forever.

Audio Ambiance Loops

Great site for music + ambiance loops!

http://tabletopaudio.com/

You can play them right from the site, or even download DRM-free MP3 files!

Example:

The Dismal and Depressing End to Deep Space Nine

/!\ SPOILERS WARNING

Don't read on, If you haven't watched Deep Space Nine (DS9), or haven't finished watching it...


Here goes...


3...

2...

1...



I admit, it's been a long time since I had watched DS9 -- probably at least 15 years ago. Long enough that I hardly remembered any of it. So it was time to watch it a second time. I started about a year ago, and we just finished the whole series last night.

I didn't remember the end being so dismal and depressing! In fact, I vaguely thought Kira was going to be allowed to become a shape-shifter and join her love Odo in the Great Link. Nothing of the sort.

Let's review the outcomes for the cast of DS9 - and you tell me, does this seem depressing to you?!

• The great leader and protagonist of the entire show, Captain Benjamin Sisko, dies in the end.
• Newlywed Kasidy Yates Sisko is left alone as pregnant widow by the death of her husband.
• Jake Sisko is left deserted to roam the station as an orphan... (His mother died in the beginning of the series, and now his father has died at the end.)
• Odo deserts the Federation, defects to join [and cure] the enemy Founders; and in doing so, dumps his love Kira Nerys.
• Kira, abandoned by Odo, and pushed into command by the death of Sisko, now has to run the station alone.
• Miles O'Brien, still just an enlisted man (no officer promotion in the whole series?!) takes some teaching job at Starfleet on Earth, and in doing so abandons his best friend of many years, the doctor;
• Dr Julian Bashir remains to toil on at his same post indefinitely, and friendless now that Miles and Garak have both left... At least he has some nascent relationship with the perpetually confused Ezri Dax¿
• Jadzia Dax? Oh yeah, she was killed off last season.
• Quark - teased that he was going to become Grand Nagus of Ferenginar, gets usurped by his younger brother Rom.
• Worf leaves the station, abdicates his Starfleet comission, and becomes a bureaucrat on the Klingon home world.
• The Great Klingon Warrior, General Martok, gets to live the rest of his days as a politician on Qo'noS...
• Gowron, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, is killed by Worf.
• Garak, finally makes it home to his beloved Cardassia - from where he has been exiled from for the entire series - only to be devastated by the near genocide of his entire race by the Dominion. Everyone he knew and loved is dead, his home is gone, the culture he knew is gone, and he's not even appointed to lead his people (so far as we know).
• The newly-heroic rebel leader, Leggett Damar, dies just inches away from regaining his former position as leader of his Cardassian people.
• Kai Winn is incenerated - burned alive by Dukat.
• Gul Dukat is killed by Sisko's kamikaze suicide plunge to death, and is forever damned to exist as a spirit with the Pah-wraiths of the Bajoran Fire Caves for eternity.
• Weyoun9, the last of his clones, also dies (killed by Garak).
• The Female Shapeshifter, Founder and leader of the Dominion, is forced to surrender. Tried and convicted as a galactic war criminal.


Seem pretty dark and dismal to me... I don't remember thinking that the last time I watched this...

Kuddos to @Microsoft for Patching Windows XP & Server 2003 against WannaCrypt, even though those OSs are expired. 👍 https://t.co/iSzZbCrsO7

Kuddos to @Microsoft for Patching Windows XP & Server 2003 against WannaCrypt, even though those OSs are expired. 👍 https://t.co/iSzZbCrsO7

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) May 17, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

The ditching of GoogleTalk by @Google is a Bad Move on their part. Why drop a hugely successful IM client?! "Hangouts" is a poor substitute.

The ditching of GoogleTalk by @Google is a Bad Move on their part. Why drop a hugely successful IM client?! "Hangouts" is a poor substitute.

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) May 11, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

My @yourKarma unit let me down this weekend. And their email support is terrible. Site says no phone support. Is there any way to get help?!

My @yourKarma unit let me down this weekend. And their email support is terrible. Site says no phone support. Is there any way to get help?!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) May 11, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

The information in @amazon's product questions is great! But is there any good way to SEARCH those Q&As? There has got to be a way!?!

The information in @amazon's product questions is great! But is there any good way to SEARCH those Q&As? There has got to be a way!?!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) May 11, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Kuddos to @JoelGHodgson and all the staff at the New @MST3K on @netflix! You've done a Great Job on the reboot and kept it funny and clean!!

Kuddos to @JoelGHodgson and all the staff at the New @MST3K on @netflix! You've done a Great Job on the reboot and kept it funny and clean!!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) May 3, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

I will buy a new iPhone @Apple when you add Qi-style wireless charging ability natively into the phone!

I will buy a new iPhone @Apple when you add Qi-style wireless charging ability natively into the phone!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) April 17, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

I usually listen to SN podcasts with my kids in the car - but Ep. #604 had to be cut off. @SGgrc and @leolaporte you should know better...

I usually listen to SN podcasts with my kids in the car - but Ep. #604 had to be cut off. @SGgrc and @leolaporte you should know better...

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) March 29, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Come on @Google can't you add FAXing ability to @googlevoice service? This seems like an obvious instant software improvement to GoogleVoice

Come on @Google can't you add FAXing ability to @googlevoice service? This seems like an obvious instant software improvement to GoogleVoice

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) February 16, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

VirusTotal Multi-AV File Scanning

Recently, a colleague of mine had a website that was being blocked by both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox for having "potentially unwanted software":

He was quite sure that the EXE download that he was hosting was indeed safe, and had tested it with several desktop AntiVirus (AV) programs that had all passed his file as OK.

As it turns out, his file was good, but the wrapping software (to make a 30-day trial out of the program) was old, out of date, and had been hacked by others, on other sites (but apparently not his).

The only way we were made aware of this was by running the file through VirusTotal's website:

https://www.virustotal.com

VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware.

They have the ability to upload a file, recognize it uniquely by it's SHA256 hash, and run it against around 60 AV programs, and give you an output:

And even a link that you can share with others so they can view the same results.

I've been looking for something like this for a while, and am glad to see that VirusTotal is making this happen.

Since it's news to me, I'm sharing it with you!

-J

 

In your Printer article https://t.co/E6OxSKfE1p, @DougOlenick, why didn't you get a copy of an actual Print and include it?? We want to see!

In your Printer article https://t.co/E6OxSKfE1p, @DougOlenick, why didn't you get a copy of an actual Print and include it?? We want to see!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) February 8, 2017

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

How to Save a YouTube video...

The easiest way is to try:
www.clipconverter.cc

If that doesn't work, try (for Firefox) this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Or, (also for Firefox) this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-video-downloader/


Happy snipping!

Kill the Tabs in Notepad++

"create a totally empty file called 'asNotepad.xml' and put it in the Notepad++ directory at the same level as the notepad++.exe file"

Thank you ioSamurai from source!

Create a New folder in Windows 10 with a keyboard shortcut

New Windows10 shortcut!

In previous versions of Windows Explorer, to get a new folder made, I would use:
     [Alt]+[F] --> [W] --> [Enter]

Now there's an official keyboard shortcut:
     [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[N]

-J

How about more GIMP tutorials, to balance out all your Photoshop tutorials @howtogeek? Let's support open-source options we can all afford!

How about more GIMP tutorials, to balance out all your Photoshop tutorials @howtogeek? Let's support open-source options we can all afford!

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) November 8, 2016

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj

Is YOUR Network Listed in Shodan?

Use this online test:
     http://iotscanner.bullguard.com/

To see if you have IOT devices (or others) that are being publicly listed in the Shodan search network (not good!).

Stealth Health

This seems like a good idea:

stealth health n. The practice of making a recipe or food product healthier without advertising the change to consumers. Example: And once a reformulated food passes the test, companies often avoid saying anything on the label or in advertisements about the nutritional improvements — especially when it comes to salt. Most people don’t think they need to cut back on sodium. Better to say nothing. It's known in the trade as "stealth health." —Corby Kummer, “Pie In the Sky,” The New York Times, October 5, 2016

-J

Why does @Dropbox software still run on Windows XP *and* ask for credentials, when "Dropbox doesn't support XP anymore"?? @DropboxSupport

Why does @Dropbox software still run on Windows XP *and* ask for credentials, when "Dropbox doesn't support XP anymore"?? @DropboxSupport

— Jay Harrison (@twrj) October 13, 2016

from Twitter https://twitter.com/twrj