How To Print from Your Android Device

First, a disclaimer of sorts. The original design for the Android operating system did not have printing from the device as a requirement. It seems dumb, but the thought was that the device is truly portable and you would use your PC or other device to do any printing. Well, the designers were wrong and are now playing catchup. As of this writing, some third parties are providing some print capability, but with limitations. In this blog entry I'm going to talk about the only first party application available, called the Google Cloud. With a little "jumping through hoops" you can print just about anything. A key dependency is that you have Google Chrome on a machine that can print to a printer. For Windows, you also need a certain service. I am also assuming your email account is google. That doesn't mean other email accounts won't work. I just haven't tested other options.
The instructions I've written are a little to complex in format to put in a blog. So I've created a PDF document, which is here.

You know how you get folder views in Windows Explorer?

This is a continuing aggravation for me.  I click on explorer (this is what Windows uses to display your folders) and up comes a view that shows a bunch of folder icons.  So I have to go up to the "View" entry on the menubar and pick List or Details, my preferred way of compressing the view so I can see as much as possible. Now, I know how to change explorer so what I assumed was ALL the explorer views showed the list view.  However, it didn't do it for all folders; it seemed so arbitrary.  Well, I found a really good tutorial on this, + some suggestions on alternatives to explorer.  It is a little "geeky," but take a look:

How to see the same view in all Windows 7 folders.  

On-Line Videos Re: Auto Maintenance/Parts, etc

CNET sent me a link today that I found very helpful:   "How to videos specific to your car."