May is arriving shortly and that of course means Memorial Day, May the Fourth, May Day, and of course World Password Day.  This year...

Windows Power Toys             Microsoft Power Toys started as a collection of small utilities distributed freely to Windows 95 users. ...

Potpourri             This month we look at some of the things affecting science and technology in the news.   Computer Prices are Rising...

Useful Software for Free The holidays are over. You got that new computer you were waiting for but no software. On the other hand,...

Happy Windows 10 End of Life             This New Year 2025 Windows 10 is supposed to reach the End of Life.  It is scheduled to occur on...

More Tech Gift Ideas             Currently it is getting close to Thanksgiving, near the end of November and I am writing my December...

Holiday Tech I find myself near Halloween thinking about the end-of-year holidays, not the ghoulish season at the end of October. This...

Android Android 15 will be released to Googles Pixel phones this month (October), it is has inspired me to review some of the features in...

Back to School 2024 It is August and as I am writing this if school hasn’t started already, it will begin shortly. Last year I worked as...

Summer Potpourri    This month I thought I would hit some short topics, light reading for the vacation season.  Since we just completed...

Space 2024: Part 2 I have had an interest in space since I was a young boy and watched John Glenn’s launch into orbit on TV. I used to...

Every now and then, I move away from computer technology and look at a different area. This month we look at what is going on in space.

World Password Day 2024 World Password Day occurs on the first Thursday each May. This year it is May 2nd. The day makes a good reminder...

Raspberry Pi It has been a little over two years since I wrote about the Raspberry Pi Computer.  I missed Pi Day this year because I was...

Printers – Part 2 This month we continue with our discussions of printers. As I mentioned last month I am in the market for a new...

Printers This month I thought I would start writing a series on computer peripherals.  Peripherals are those add-on devices that go along...

Late Holiday Shopping Ok, so this could be for those late shoppers looking for technology stocking stuffers or it could be for those that...

Programming Languages First Program In 1976 I wrote my first computer programs in Fortran, a language that had been created in the 1950’s...

Ghosts of Christmas Past So, it is October and I find myself writing the annual Christmas column so it will be published before Black...

As long promised, I am now ready to begin my “Using our tools” series on the spreadsheet. Dan Bricklin developed Visicalc, considered by...

Back to School 2023 Another August and another school year. Welcome to our annual Back to School Edition of Tech Sense. The last two...

Phishing This month I thought I would revise an article I wrote about three years ago. This year I am thinking about my vacation and...

June Potpourri Last month I had the opportunity to do a presentation for the Laurel Senior Friendship Club. We designed this as a...

World Password Day 2023 May the 4th be with you. This year World Password Day occurs on Star Wars Day. It seems like such a long time...

Part 1 of this series is available here. Part 2 of this series is available here. Word Processing Part 3 This month we conclude our...

Part 1 of this series is available here. Word Processing Part 2 This month we continue our “Using our Tools” discussion of the Word...

Using our Tools: The Word Processor This month we continue the “Using our Tools” series with the Word Processor. Word processing was one...

Part 1 of this column can be found by clicking here. Part 2 of this column can be found by clicking here The Browser Part 3 So here we...

FYI: Part 1 of this column can be found by clicking here. The Browser Part 2 This month we will continue our “Using our Tools” series and...

Shopping for Holiday Tech 2022 In some ways I am feeling the way Costco must feel when they start to put Christmas merchandise out in...

Using your Tools: The Browser We have been back to school for a few weeks now and I thought it might be time to learn how to better use...

Back to School 2022 School is about to start again, and for the first time in a long time we are expecting a more normal school year with...

Finding eBooks This month I am on vacation as I write the column. As a result, I will be revisiting a topic I last touched on in 2019 to...

Upgrade This month I thought I would briefly cover a variety of topics, staring with updates you may want to consider for your home and...

I have been writing this column for several years now and it is hard for me to believe that I have never written about computers and...

World Password Day 2022 World Password Day is on May 5th this year and is observed by updating your passwords and verifying your security...

Tech Sense Q&A Every now and then I get questions that I put aside and answer when I have room left in my column. I have accumulated a...

Pi Day - March 14th Monday, March 14th is also known as Pi Day. Pi is of course the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s...

A Safer New Year I believe that the New Year is a great time to improve your security posture, so with that in mind I have a few...

Another Holiday season and we are feeling the economic impacts of nearly two years of COVID. There are shortages of many popular...

Potpourri 2021 This month I thought I might touch on several short topics before we go into the holiday season. Windows 11 Windows 11 was...

Wireless This month our topic is wireless technologies. We will try to briefly cover three wireless technologies that we find in our...

Back to School 2021 School starts again shortly, are you ready for the new reality? We are not certain where our students are going to...

Space 2021 A number of significant achievements have occurred in space technologies in the past couple of months and I thought I would...

Chip Shortages I thought for this month’s column it might be interesting to explore the chip shortage which is having an impact on...

Ransomware I am writing this in May of 2021. As I drive down US 1 here in Beltsville the gasoline prices have all jumped from about $2.40...

Another World Password Day I have been writing this column for just over five years now and I have written five columns (one was in two...

The USB Port As I see it part of the purpose of this column is to give the readers insight into technology. This month I thought I would...

Pi Day - March 14th March 14th is Pi Day. Pi is the number that represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. In...

How Search Engines Work Happy New Year! Welcome to 2021, hopefully a better year. Last week I was asked how search engines like Google or...