Ascomp Text-R Pro Ascomp has kindly offered our DCT readers a chance to win one of five licenses for Text-R, an Optical Character Reader (OCR) program currently valued at $29.90 (US). Ascomp also offers a free 14-day trial period so you can try before …
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We all know that our phones have a default ringtone. Most of the time it is one we don’t really like and would love to change. You came to the right place because I did the research for all of my readers on how to …
I know that most of the people reading this are not computer programmers. What if I told you that by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) you can use a computer programming language you know nothing about to do amazing things in Windows? Even if you DO …
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There is a button called Shapes, which is very useful because it can be manipulated in a lot of ways. You will find that shapes are very versatile and there are many to choose from. In Word, shapes are known as vector graphics, which are …
DNSJumper is portable freeware that allows users to quickly and easily change between DNS servers. DNSJumper also provides a quick and simple method to flush the DNS cache, which can occasionally be necessary when experiencing issues connecting to certain websites. Flushing the DNS cache isn’t …
It’s probably been there all along but I only recently noticed the “My Pictures” folder listed for media in the playlist view of VLC. “Ctrl + L” toggles the playlist view on or off. Or go into “View” (top menu) and click on the first …
An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses. For example, the domain name www.example.com translates to the address 93.184.216.34 ~ Source Wikipedia The DNS (Domain …
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It has been a while since I have written an Amazon How-To article. I guess now it is time. As always, I was doing a little shopping and decided I need to change my public profile name. That is right, you can change your profile …
One of my main grudges with Windows 11 is being forced to use a Microsoft account rather than a local one in the setup. There are a few posted tricks to bypass this online. I’m going to install Windows 11 on one of my old …
Microsoft Word gives us myriad shapes we can use to enhance our documents. We have gone over several of them this month. Today we will learn how to insert icons! Icons are images that represent other things. In Word, they are black-and-white line drawings that …
In this article, I’ll show you how to add the “Copy To” and “Move To” options into Explorer’s right-click context menu. This is a registry hack that has been around since Windows 7 days and still works today. This guide is specific to Windows 11 …
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Download ImageCacheViewer From Nirsoft.net Sometimes I like to experiment with programs to see what they are like. How well do they work, if at all? I came across the reference for this program but can’t remember from where. According to their website: It is a …
