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 using my computer. Not everyone learned to type. I remember […]
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 know if you have had to find a hidden friend, […]
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 compressed file on an external hard drive. Using that image, […]
The Password Quandary Passwords have been around seemingly forever. Try as we may, there seems to be no way to remember them all so we do things like use the same one everywhere. That is easy to remember but makes us vulnerable on many levels. Someone gets our Facebook password and now they know the […]
Dropbox is a good way to upload your data to a safe cloud. If you download the Dropbox Application to your computer it will even synchronize data in your Dropbox folder to your Dropbox cloud. I use it for saving data, but not for keeping that data synced to my computer. I use it for […]
Setting Up A New Computer It’s a new year and Santa brought you a new laptop. All your “stuff” is still on the old computer, so how do you get your files and programs moved to the new one? This is not a difficult task, but there are a few steps to take. The data […]