Retired Navy Captain, psychologist, NIH scientist, retiree. In 2012, we retired to Happilyeverafter on the Central Florida beach. I spent the bulk of my career in the DC Metro area but I lived in Ft. Worth 7 years as a student, lab manager, and med school academic, another 7 managing a lab in Oklahoma City for the FAA while also doing studies for the Pentagon and the White House, before moving to the National Institutes of Health. My spouse and I spend 3 months out of the year at our house in Bulgaria which enables us to keep in touch with our many friends throughout the EU.
Mobile Phone Update: Google Pixel 5 and Samsung Z Flip 3
Here are my experiences with two mobile phones I have used over the last 6 months. From my perspective (a tech-savvy older adult), one was really bad. The other was "OK", but definitely not "for everyone". Read about my experiences below.
This series focuses on helping readers of all generations learn the fundamentals of scams, what scammers are after, how they use mail, email, mobile phones, tablets, and personal computers to steal your identity, your money, and even the Internet bandwidth you pay for every month to access the internet.
What to do when a parent shows signs of falling for “scams” — and seems unable to take the appropriate actions to avoid them? While it is often appropriate to let older adults worry about their own “scam-proofing”, there are some situations in which an intervention is appropriate.
Learn how scams work, with examples. Because, the best protection against exploitation by scammers comes from having a general understanding of how people try to con the elderly into sending/wiring them money or worse, giving them the electronic keys to their financial kingdom.
Here are some very specific actions you can take to avoid the sort of scams that impact older adults. This article also includes some easy-to-follow “spam avoidance rules”.
There is an infinite cache of brilliant essays, news articles, scientific reports, and books available on the Internet, but you cannot access much of it without giving the website owners something of value in return, unless you master a few simple “surfing techniques”.
This page contains some detailed instructions for how to set up Internet feeds so they stream useful articles and other content to the home page of your browser — so you don’t have to go searching for them.
This continues the article “Surf the Web Like a Pro“, in which you can read more — including what exactly “Feeds” are and why you might want them, and is part of the series “An Internet Enabled Life“.
I find having the right “Browser Extensions” installed on my browser makes a huge different to how easily I can surf the web, and avoid popups and paywalls, and find what I want to read easily and quickly.
Here is the list of my personal “Favorite Browser Extensions”.
As I mentioned in the introduction to “My Internet Enabled Life, you can see the world while sitting at your PC in your own house or apartment. Here is a list of websites that offer an amazing assortment of places to visit, theater performances to watch, TV series, and movies.
For as long as I can remember, my late mom, who passed away at 96, used to call the PC that sat on their desk “The Email.” This segment of “My Internet enabled Life” talks about “The Email”.
Peter Paul and Mary had a hit single decades ago called “Whats-her-name.” The chorus goes: “I wonder whatever happened to whatshername.” Your PC might help you find not only whatshername, but also whatshisname too. Here is how to do it.
Retired Navy Captain, psychologist, NIH scientist, retiree. In 2012, we retired to Happilyeverafter on the Central Florida beach. I spent the bulk of my career in the DC Metro area but I lived in Ft. Worth 7 years as a student, lab manager, and med school academic, another 7 managing a lab in Oklahoma City for the FAA while also doing studies for the Pentagon and the White House, before moving to the National Institutes of Health.
My spouse and I spend 3 months out of the year at our house in Bulgaria which enables us to keep in touch with our many friends throughout the EU.
Tom Hilton
