Recent content by Mark Mandel

A month or two ago my Samsung Galaxy S-6 started making nearly constant notification signals, like every minute or 2. Any useful notifications were lost in the flood. I turned notifications off, but that's really unsatisfactory. I've gone down the Notifications setting page and turned them off...

SUMMARY: Bunch of apps disappeared leaving "ghost Android + SD" icon. :eek: When I turned on the display of my VErizon Samsung Stratosphere (model SCH-I405, h/w v. I405.05, f/w v. 2.3.6) for the n-th time this afternoon, a bunch of my apps suddenly had just a "ghost" (translucent gray) Android...

I got a notification today to download a new OS to my SCH-I405. So I did, and when it came up again my old wallpaper was gone and in place of it was a photo that is very pleasant but distracting and definitely NSFW That photo may be from one of my files, but I don't want it as my wallpaper...

Oh phooey, I am so mixed up this morning. I meant FROM IMAC TO DROID. Save in TextPad, hit Cmd-Sh-T to turn off all fonts and formatting, and save as .txt. THEN you can Bluetooth it to your paranoid Android, which will recognize the most basic of all text formats. Otherwise, not.:'(

Apparently there is one way to transfer text from verizon 'droid stratosphere to iMac via Bluetooth: save it as .txt. Bye-bye any font, color, (hyperlinks?) or other formattinng you might have done: all down the sewer. So WTF good is Quickoffice (imitation MS Office) if it can't travel out of...

My friends say get an iphone.

My name is Mark Mandel and I live in Philadelphia. When I needed to replace my years-old smartphone, all my friends told me "For Heaven's sake DON'T get a Samsung Galaxy anything!" Well, I went to the Verizon store on Walnut about 38th and (after a lonnnnnng wait) told the sales clerk I didn't...