I know I am dating myself but I programmed computers a while back that used 8-inch floppy disks. They were called floppy because when you held one side they would actually bend. The most common size held 80 KB of data. That does not seem […]
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Vacation time is filled with many great trips. We are on vacation as I write this. There are plenty of opportunities to take pictures so we can view them later and bring to remembrance the good times we had. Many of my pictures are uploaded
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How did all that junk get on my computer? That is a question many of us have and the more junk, the longer it takes to start up and to do something. So we run maintenance programs like CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Superantispyware, and Malwarebytes. They
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I am sure you have seen people with two or three or more monitors on their computer. Well, maybe on a TV show. Two is easy with a laptop. Just plug a second one into the VGA port on an older laptop or the HDMI
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Ever since Windows 95 we have been able to press F8 while the computer was starting and boot into Safe Mode. We could elect to boot with or without networking and even to boot to a DOS-like command prompt–C:\. Enter Windows 10 and the old
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Have you ever wanted to print a large poster, but you only have a standard printer? In the past, I would take a flash drive to one of the local Office Supply stores and have them print it for me. But that is an expensive
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I remember the days when I would turn on my computer and go make a pot of coffee. When the coffee was done, I would take a cup back to my desk and maybe it was ready for me to sign in. Then computers got
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In my opinion, Ninite is the safest site to install programs from. When you open Ninite you are presented with a list of programs to select from. You check the ones you want– the ones I picked here are Chrome, Malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware, Revo, and Glary.
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I have been insistent for years about safe removal of USB drives. I remember a student or two when I was teaching college that pulled their flash drive out too quickly. It was the only device where all their college work was stored. They lost
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I checked my Google Account the other day and did not know we have complete access to everything Google has saved about us. I was amazed that I had over 18,000 photos on Google Photos, and all stored for free! Google has a wealth of
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When I was growing up my parents would take 35 mm slides during our vacations. When friends would visit, the projector would be set up and their friends would see the pictures and listen to my Dad give them the details about each one. Today,
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I believe one of the most valuable classes I took in school was typing. We had manual typewriters that you really had to bang on to get those keys to work. I learned the keyboard layout and have used that skill ever since but especially
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I remember being a boy in a “tech-less” society. The most tech was the black-and-white television and the electric beater my Mom had. I would play hide-and-seek with my friends outside. One would hide and the rest of us had to find them. I don’t
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Create An Image I talk a lot about the importance of doing backups on a regular basis. Macrium Reflect is one program that I use to make an image backup of my computers. It copies the entire contents of the hard disk to a single
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