Thursday, October 17, 2024

Adding storage to my Fire tablet

 
I needed more storage for my smaller Fire Tablet 7 (my newer one.)

The first SD card I tried was 256GB, but resulted in a message that the disk was corrupted. I googled this issue, and learned that for some fire tablets, there's a limit to the size of the SD you can use. So I returned it and ordered a 64GB SD card.

This one also said it was corrupted. But this time I clicked on that message, and it told me I have to format it first. So it's possible the bigger SD card would have worked.

It then formatted it. 

Then it asked if I want the storage for moving files and I said no. Then it told me that if I want to use it for apps and such, that I have to move the content, so I said yes. Then it said:

 
Your SD Card is ready to uSe. Your content was moved
To manage this SanDisk SD card, go to STorage Settings.

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Enable 3D Mode in Google maps

Try this: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3031966?hl=en-GB&sjid=12801735407415340256-NA

Or this worked:

If you navigate to this link http://maps.google.com/?force=webgl and you then see an error at the bottom of the screen along the lines of "We’re sorry, only the lite mode of the new Google Maps is available at this time."  webgl is probably not enabled for your browser.
On Chrome, navigate to chrome://settings/ -> expand the Advanced settings at the bottom of the page -> under System, make sure "Use hardware acceleration when available" is turned on.

Thursday, October 3, 2024

Notification Settings in Google Docs




  1. Go into the document
  2. Click help
  3. Use "search the menus" to search for notification settings