You can only truly turn off this “feature” in the desktop/laptop version; on the Mobile app for iPhone, the best you can hope for is to force it to only work when your phone is connected to wi–fi. update: ios 7.1 includes the ability to turn OFF video autoplay: go to Settings>Facebook>Settings>Video; set Auto-play to OFF, or to Wi-Fi only. Here’s the way it […]
How to Turn Off Facebook’s Annoying Video AutoPlay
Is Glass Your Next Big Thing?
The short answer is probably not yet. Glass is Google’s latest R&D effort. Okay, it’s a cool concept. Would I like to play with it? Yes, I probably would. Would I spend $1,500 to play with it? Nah. Absolutely not. But let’s remember this: At $1,500, I’m not the target market for this product. Glass is still highly experimental. It’s […]
What’s That Up In the Sky? (It’s my delivery from Amazon!)
I don’t know that I would ever bet against Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. He’s had more hits (Amazon Web Services, Prime services, the Kindle line) than misses (Kozmo dot com, askville dot com, LivingSocial), and even if the misses were BIG misses, the hits were BIG, BIG hits. That said, I’m not sure I’m ready to call it in […]
What can I get rid of, and how do I NOT mess it up?
I had a reader question on this subject, and this is a very good question. There are things that DO need to be on your computer, and things that DON’T. Knowing the difference between the two can determine whether or not your computer still runs after you’re done fixing it. These instructions pertain to Windows operating systems. If you need […]
Okay, so what IS the motherboard?
A motherboard is a printed circuit board that contains the stuff that makes up the computer, or it has slots to put some of that stuff in. Your computer is a box of electricity, and what makes it work and display stuff to you is the flow of that electricity. Each component in the computer has a printed circuit board […]