Winners Announced! iMyFone has kindly offered our DCT readers a chance to win one of five licenses for their Passper for RAR program. At the time of writing these are one-year licenses each valued at $29.95. There is also a free trial version you can try out to see if it suits your needs. “Simply […]
Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Expired! iMyFone Passper For RAR Winners Announced! iMyFone has kindly offered our […]
This past week at my real job (yes, I have a real job) my coworker was being set up with a new computer for her job. To me, this is no big deal since as a Tech, we do this all the time. Now, she was doing fine moving her files over until I heard […]
Word is possessed of powerful editing tools that we can use to do more than manage our text. So if you find that you are working with images and pictures, you can access some formatting options to help you out! Crop An Image Follow to steps below to learn how: Select your photo, which activates […]
This morning I realized I was on my last roll of toilet paper. This wasn’t an emergency since I still had a whole roll to use, but what happened next is relatable to millions across America. I sat down, went on my phone, opened Amazon and ordered a new pack to arrive the next day. […]
A woman called me and she wanted to download some pictures from her Facebook account to her iPhone. She was going to have them printed up later from some photo service, probably Walmart. I only had remote access to her computer to do this. If I remember correctly, she was using an iPhone 6. I […]
A few months back I found a deal on a Corsair Strafe mechanical keyboard. My old keyboard was working OK but I wanted one that lit up the whole keyboard and not only a few keys (like WASD). As you might imagine, I was excited to hook up this bad boy when it arrived at […]
I had a small video that I wanted to remove the background audio from before uploading to Facebook. You can do this using VLC. Here’s how. Open VLC and then go to Media (top left-hand corner), then Convert/Save… or press on Ctrl + R. In the Open Media box, click on the Add… button or […]
Computers are all around us no matter what age we are– from young to old. In my experience, many elderly users find it confusing but there’s a way to set up the Desktop and remove a lot of that confusion. Instead of placing a shortcut on the Desktop to access their browser and try to […]
I wrote before about enabling Flash games on Facebook in Chrome but the only problem is you have to do this every time you open the browser. I was looking for a more permanent fix and I think I found it. It does require using the Registry. And just for the record, when I say […]
Over the last few months, I’ve installed Windows 10 numerous times on our machines at home, mainly due to major hardware changes such as CPUs and motherboards. My last clean install was when I replaced an ageing Gigabyte 770 motherboard which was paired with a Phenom 965. The upgrade to a Gigabyte 990 motherboard, with […]
Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Running Now! iMyFone Passper For RAR iMyFone has kindly offered our DCT […]
I was playing on my laptop the other day and looked at the Taskbar at the bottom of my screen. Nothing new but I wondered if I could make any adjustments to it. The one change I really wanted to change was removing the Search Box. This is the one thing I don’t like hanging […]