22nd July Technological trauma


Technology is great until it either stops working as shown by the recent Cyberstrike worldwide outage or it changes. Or you buy a new device. This week, thanks in part to the recent Amazon Prime sale, I became the proud owner of two Alexa type speakers and a Galaxy tablet. 

Well the owner of a Galaxy tablet once Amazon had managed to deleiver it on the 4th attempt. And then without a charger included in the purchase.That it turned out was the easy bit.

The hard bit has been trying to work out how they work especially given that the tablet didn't come with a hard copy of how to set it up and the Alexa app didnt seem to like working on a computer. And I haven't even mentioned passwords. 

I do wish someone had told me many many moons ago a safe and yet easy way of being able to remember the passwords to a multiple of different sites / applications without every single password being identical.

Some had thankfully been 'saved' or stored within the browsers on my computers but others have involved a guessing game trying to recall what the elusive digital key might be. It has been frustrating to say the least. 

Finally, after several e mail exchanges and a whole host of Youtube tutorials, not helped by the screen on the Galaxy tablet switching itself off before I had the time to change the display settings, I am now able to work the basic fundementals of both the tablet and the two Alexa speakers.  If only I could think of something for her to play!!

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