I wrote about the rechargeable wireless business clip-on earbud1 a few weeks ago; since then, I've been accustomed to using it. This morning I popped out of the house to pick up a parcel; I had the earbud in my ear before I left, and I decided to keep it there. Of course, someone telephoned me when I was out. I didn't even have to take my phone from my pocket: I simply pressed on the correct button and talked. When I came back with the parcel, I forgot that I had the earbud in; I picked up the headphones connected to the computer and continued listening to music. A bit later, someone else called, or maybe it was a WhatsApp message which is when I realised that I could hear both the earbud and the headphones. In other words, when someone calls, I only have to remove the headphones; I don't have to start fiddling around with the earbud because it's already in my ear. So I'll put it in when I start work in the morning and I'll take it out in the evening.
My regular computer has been giving me problems 2 again. On Sunday morning, the first working day of the month (and incidentally my birthday), the computer simply stopped in its tracks maybe five times in the space of an hour. I gave up and continued working with the computer that I have from work. This second computer doesn't have a separate numerical keyboard (which I find very useful) and has a smaller screen, but it has never given me any problems. After working with this computer non-stop for a day and a half, I wanted to print something. This computer does not have my Pantum printer3 defined, so I dug out the installation cd and copied its contents to the computer. I then ran the setup program; this installed not only the printer but also the scanner program that for some reason was not defined on my primary computer. This morning I've been working without any problem on the primary; maybe the problem was overheating*. Anyway, now that I know that the scanner can be installed, I went ahead and installed it on this computer. No more scanning via a third computer then transferring the files via Anydesk.
Unfortunately, scanning takes a long time (several minutes for a page): this is because the data has to be transferred via wifi. The scanner is connected physically to the XP computer with a USB cable, so naturally that works much faster.
I also found out how the computers - and my mobile phone, for that matter - connect with the printer: I originally wrote "I failed to connect the printer to my wifi: I gave it the network name and password but no connection was made. When I installed the printer driver on the computer, it gave the option of accessing the printer via its own wifi.And lo and behold: I can now print from my mobile to the printer via the magic of wifi!" But this isn't strictly true. What actually happens is that the printer is connected to the router via a network cable, whereas the computers and phone connect to the router via wifi. The computers are not connecting to the printer's wifi but to the router. This isn't going to change anything - as opposed to the first two discoveries - but it's nice to know. It also helped me understand how I (or my wife) can print directly from our mobile phones instead of having to send me something by WhatsApp so that my computer can see the message and print it.
* Indeed it was. It was like watching open heart surgery when the technician took the mobile apart, found the fan - that was not turning - and extracted it, in order to clean all the gunk away. Putting it all back together was somewhat nerve-wracking for me, but he knew what he was doing.
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