9 December 2013 I spent a lot of time yesterday, Sunday, struggling with two issues. The first is to get the old HP LaserJet 5P accessible by other computers since I have moved it to dvgibson2old. I resolved the problem…

5 December 2013 Yesterday I paid 6 bills and deleted three payees and added one new one. But Quicken Bill Pay failed, tried over and over again. Today tried again and also moved the backup to the old computer and it failed…

13 October 2013 I started last night to try to download more issues of Bon Appetit to my Kindle. Very flustrating having to keep signing in with both username and password each time. Its my own copy of the application…

24 November 2013 The new Bother printer is being a pain to install!  Spent many hours trying to install the “driver” which includes huge invasive applications. Lots of crap in the tray now, not even identified by its owner. Computer is slower to boot. cashes…

6 November 2013 A few days ago I thought it would be cool to get a mobile app from TD Bank and deposit some checks electronically.The app installed fine, then the first test to get the account balances seemed fine.…

9 October 2013 I have been trying for days to get my employment verified with Verizon so I continue to get my phone discount. It used to be simple, click on verify by email and respond to the email. But…

13 September 2013 Started off this morning to see what I could do about the TiVo Desktop problem. It stopped working on Serrano; it picks but it does not download. And you spend a lot of time finding out that…

31 August 2013 Trying again on the Homelink garage door opener controls on the new car. Still can’t get it get to recognize the rolling code. Then, I think back through what I did before. First I used the remote…

27 August 2013 I was trying to get the Homelink Garage Door Opener to work from the new, to us, Lexus last night. We have a garage door opener with a rolling code so I had to find the instruction…

26 August 2013   Last night there was a nasty smell of dead mouse in the Lexus.    This is not quite high tech but how I did find the mouse is. By having learned earlier from a U-Tube video…