“Jim is the resident freeware aficionado at DCT“. So says the opening line of the BIO at the bottom of my articles – and you’d better believe it. I started writing about freeware back in the day when Clif Sipe (AKA Clif Notes) and Ian […]
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Yep, Windows 10 takes some getting used to and while Microsoft is big on having you use their Tile View, I’m still looking to my Desktop to provide the best shortcuts. Creating shortcuts manually isn’t hard in Windows 10, but the fastest way I’ve found to dump
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Snow Bunnies Everyone has them. You know, the photos of children that should be kept in a photo album and not shared. Those firsts with your children that you want to brag about. The photo of them on the potty having success. Those same photos can
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First attempts Today is Mother’s Day (at the time I started writing this), and I decided to create and print up a custom Mother’s Day card. Normally, I create cards, whatever the occasion, in a program called Micrografx Windows Draw. I have it installed on
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How Fast is Your Internet Connection? We all want the speediest connection as is possible to the Internet. We are also subject to the contract we set up with our Internet Service Provider (ISP). Generally speaking, if you are getting about 85%, or better, of
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Change Your Auto-Recover Settings in Office Programs When you’re creating a document and your computer crashes for any number of reasons, you have to appreciate the Auto-recover feature in Microsoft (MS) Word and other Office programs. This feature works in the background to automatically save
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2-Step Verification Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker on a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained
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DOOM Publisher: Bethesda/Zenimax Developer: id Software Review platform: Windows PC (Steam) The King is Back! id Software pretty much invented the First Person Shooter (FPS) back in 1993 when the original Doom was launched and, as the years have passed, its DNA can still be seen
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Creating forms in Word is easy – folks do it all the time! But suppose you want a form that folks can fill in – on their computer? Not to worry! Turns out you can do this, and fairly painlessly as well! You will need
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What is the Google App Launcher? Shame on you <wicked laugh> for not knowing about it. I use it and am a big fan of it. Many of the writers on the DCT Team have their specific Browser Preferences. I am a Google Chrome fan.
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Control Panel on Steroids I came across this a few times in the past but never really fooled around with it. I had it on an older system that conked out on me but haven’t bothered with it since. It involves creating a special folder
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*PLEASE NOTE: This process requires a second internal hard drive. If you haven’t got a spare hard drive or are not prepared to purchase one, then this guide is probably not for you. This guide also assumes that the reader has a little advanced knowledge.
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What is an ISO Image? The International Standards Organization (ISO) maintains standards across a number of categories including CD and DVD formats. “An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents from every
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