April 28, 2019 – Peter's Quasi-Daily Blah-g

How to Download Your Entire Amazon Purchase History

Image: Kevork Djansezian / Getty

Over the years I’ve made more than a few Amazon purchases. I’ve always known that I could go into the site and look at my recent order history. One thing I didn’t know is you can download your entire order history in spreadsheet form from the site. CNBC detailed how to do it earlier this week.

The site’s Order History tool allows you to download a list of every order you’ve made ever, or just for a certain period of time. The spreadsheet will not only list those items but also tell you when you ordered each item, who you order it from (Amazon or a third-party seller), how much you spent on the item, what payment method you used, and where you sent the product.

To do it, go to Amazon’s website and then select “Account & Lists” from the top right. You have to click on it. From there select “Download order reports” under the “Ordering and shopping preferences” section of the menu.

A form will appear where you can select the type of report you’d like. “Items” is what will show your actual purchases. You can also look exclusively at the refunds or returns you’ve made on the site. To which to one of those select something different from that drop-down menu at the top of the form (it defaults to “Items”).

Finally, select a start and end date on the form and then press “Request report.”

Amazon will tell you it’s processing your report and will email you a link to the finished product when it’s done that you can download.

If your report is anything like mine, then it’s time to personally reflect on what an insane amount of money you’ve spent over the years on things you might not even remember owning.

via Lifehacker https://lifehacker.com

April 27, 2019 at 12:57PM

April 28, 2019

Windows preview brings Android notifications to your PC

https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/28/windows-10-preview-your-phone-notifications/

Microsoft has fulfilled one of the larger promises behind its Your Phone software — if you’re willing to experiment a bit. The developer has released a Windows Insider Preview that displays Android notifications on your PC. If you allow apps to display alerts, you can find out about an important message or status update without reaching for your handset. You can clear notifications one at a time or all at once, and anything you dismiss on your PC will be reflected on your phone.

The feature is gradually rolling out to Windows Insiders using at least the 1803 (RS4) build. You’ll also need a phone running Android 7.0 Nougat or newer and a minimum of 1GB of RAM. You can’t respond to notifications (at least not yet), but this could be particularly vital for Snapchat and other apps that don’t really have a presence on the desktop.

Via: Android Police

Source: Microsoft

via Engadget http://www.engadget.com

April 28, 2019 at 06:57AM

April 28, 2019

Report: Amazon Readying a HiFi Music Streaming Service

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/04/26/report-amazon-hifi-music-streaming-service/

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According to sources of MBW, Amazon is readying a HiFi music streaming service, one to combat TIDAL’s offering.

Reported to cost somewhere around $15.99/month, the source claims at least one major record label has signed on to license its music to the service. Not a lot of details were shared, though, the quality should be, “better than CD.”

If we’re comparing to TIDAL, it offers CD-quality lossless streams at 44.1 kHz / 16 bit for $20/month. There is also the Masters tier, which are 96 kHz / 24 bit streams.

The streaming service is said to be available by the end of 2019, so if you need yet another music service, here you go!

// Music Business Worldwide

via Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog http://bit.ly/2dLq79c

April 26, 2019 at 04:24PM

April 28, 2019

AT&T Says It’s Live, Real 5G Network Hit 2Gbps Speeds

https://www.droid-life.com/2019/04/27/att-says-its-live-real-5g-network-hit-2gbps-speeds/

ATT 5G Speeds

About a month after its 5G+ network hit 1Gbps download speeds, AT&T says that the same network has now reached the 2Gbps mark.

During testing in Atlanta, AT&T used their NETGEAR Nighthawk 5G Mobile Hotspot while connected to their commercial 5G network to surpass their previous record. While not a phone, since AT&T still doesn’t sell a 5G phone, that’s an impressive number for a hotspot device that shows the potential of 5G.

As mentioned in their press note on the speed milestone, AT&T says that with those speeds, you could download a 2-hour HD movie in about 10 seconds.

Of course, I can’t help but point out that it won’t be long before AT&T charges you extra to reach those speeds that their fresh, untouched network is producing. Just this week their CEO said that they plan to copy the home internet industry by charging wireless customers for speed tiers. It’ll suck, don’t worry, and those speeds will only touched by those willing to pay a premium.

Good job, though, AT&T!

// AT&T

via Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog http://bit.ly/2dLq79c

April 27, 2019 at 05:03PM

April 28, 2019

A Video Game Developed To Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Seems To Be Working

https://kotaku.com/a-video-game-developed-to-detect-alzheimer-s-disease-se-1834331632

Sea Hero Quest is a video game developed in partnership with Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, game studio Glitchers and several European universities and it is designed to identify individuals who might have early and mild symptoms of dementia that medical tests aren’t able to detect.

When most folks think of Alzheimer’s disease they think of an illness that ruins a person’s memory. But while memory problems are very common and severe with Alzheimer’s disease, these are late-stage symptoms. Researchers and doctors want to catch the disease as early as possible, before memory loss occurs, to give future treatments the best chance at working.

Sea Hero Quest was built as a way to identify people who might be at risk of Alzheimer’s but who aren’t yet suffering any major symptoms of the disease and according to a study recently published in the journal PNAS, it seems the game is effective.

In Sea Hero Quest, which is a VR game, players have to navigate and control a virtual boat. They are given a map and shown checkpoints, then the map is taken away and players must navigate to these checkpoints in the game world without the map.

According to researchers, every two minutes spent playing the game is equal to five hours of lab-based research. Because Sea Hero Quest has been out for a few years and downloaded and played by over three million players they’ve collected the equivalent of 1,700 years of research data on Alzheimer’s.

Researchers involved with the project studied people who carried the APOE4 gene, which is thought to increase that person’s risk of developing dementia, as they played the game. They then compared these people’s results to the results of folks who played the game who don’t have that gene.

“We found that people with a high genetic risk, the APOE4 carriers, performed worse on spatial navigation tasks. They took less efficient routes to checkpoint goals,” said Professor Michael Hornberger, a member of the team.

Using data gathered from thousands of players who downloaded and played Sea Hero Quest, researchers were able to create a baseline that their test results could be compared to. In the future, the team hopes this data and the game will help identify people who need treatment for dementia before they begin suffering from some of the worse later stage symptoms.

via Kotaku https://kotaku.com

April 27, 2019 at 04:34PM