It’s been quite some time since a new and innovative freeware program has been released. I remember, many moons ago when Sandboxie was first released and terms such as “sandbox” and “isolation technique” were akin to a foreign language for many. These days, of course, […]
Sorry, no screenshots this time. A few days ago I was called because a guy’s laptop wouldn’t boot up. This was an HP. It seemed completely dead. Then I noticed a little light that came on where the power was plugged in and another little
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CONTAINS SPOILERS! ALIEN films by date released: Alien (1979) Aliens (1986) Alien 3 (1992) Alien Resurrection (1997) Alien vs. Predator (2004) Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) Prometheus (2012) Alien: Covenant (2017) ALIEN (1979) Some films stay with you forever and ALIEN, released in 1979, is
I have an issue with Thunderbird email pausing updates in RSS feeds. As I understand it, it does this automatically when it runs into errors fetching the updates. Why the developers thought that pausing the updates without any real explanation was the best course of
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Once you have sent a document out for your colleagues to review, you might receive more than one version in return. And they might all have suggestions and revisions you do not want to miss. Should this occur, you can simply combine all the edits
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Last week, I decided to write an article on Amazon Push Notifications. I wanted to stick with this subject and share some more tips to make better use of your Amazon account. If you missed last week’s article, here is the link to it: How
Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! WonderFox has most kindly donated 5 LIFETIME licenses for the brilliant HD Video Converter Factory Pro software for us to give
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The latest iteration of Microsoft’s Edge browser now includes a sidebar with a number of useful features. The sidebar displays down the right-hand edge of the browser window and is closed by default. Clicking on an item (icon) in the adjacent menu bar (which is
You are most likely familiar with the term “Navigation Pane” because it has been around since the 2007 version of Word. Then, it was called Document Map. The name may have changed a bit and been updated from time to time, but the fundamental reason
Most of you would be well aware of the increasing intrusion of online tracking and that selling users’ data has become more and more lucrative. It’s why more and more users are becoming more and more privacy-conscious. But how can we trust that claims of
I know there are some naysayers when it comes to OneNote, but there are also quite a few people who still use it and rely on it. It definitely still has a place in your bag of tricks for quick and easy working. Follow the
Fixing A Hidden Title Bar See the Original Tips and Techniques for DOD Degree of Difficulty Values DOD = 1 Occasionally an application window will repeatedly open with the Title Bar hidden above the desktop. Not being able to grab the Title Bar and move
I have two older Dell towers. One is a Dell Inspiron 531 with 2 GB RAM. The other is a Dell Inspiron 530 with 1 GB RAM. They both take DDR 2 RAM and I realized I had a bunch of 1 GB DDR2 RAM
