Regular readers will be aware that I am a huge fan of portable applications. If I am looking for a program to perform a particular chore and there are multiple choices, I will always opt for the one that includes a portable version. Portable applications […]
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I am a man of many talents, just ask me. However, I do not have an artistic bone in my body and envy those individuals who possess any sort of artistic bent. Fortunately, for people such as myself, there is a free software called FotoSketcher
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The rollout of Windows 10 2004 update has been completed and should be available on most Windows 10 machines. At this stage the 2004 update remains optional — that is, the user has to initiate the update — and pretty much all machines that previously
I recently updated my main Windows 10 machine to the latest 2004 feature update and all seemed to go well until I opened my email client, Windows Live Mail (WLM), and was unable to send or receive new messages due to an error marked 0X800C013E.
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We recently published an article taking tech writers to task with regards to their overuse of click-bait articles– those articles that sensationalize a non-event and make mountains out of molehills: Tech Site Journalism Reaches All-Time Low. Controversy sells, don’t ya know. Once again, a bunch
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I’ve written about programs auto-starting with Windows many times and how they can be unnecessarily consuming valuable resources. Apparently, many software developers believe that their programs are so good they need to be running all the time. The fact of the matter is, most of
Personally, I haven’t used any discs or burning software for many years. In these days of inexpensive flash drives, just about every electronic component coming with at least one USB port, streaming services, etc., I simply don’t have the need. Was a time when I
One of the things I come across quite often when working with clients’ machines is multiple printers listed under Devices and Printers. This occurs over time as older printers break and are replaced with new printers without removing the old printer from Windows. It won’t
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been taking steps to change my long-time default browser, Firefox, over to the new Chromium Edge. As reported in earlier articles, I used the terrific Bitwarden Password Manager extension to transfer all my passwords/logins over to Edge and
For the uninitiated, TikTok is a relatively new Chinese-based video sharing service that has proven extremely popular in the social media arena. Following its launch in China back in September 2016, TikTok, which allows users to create 15-second video clips, has amassed over 800 million
I’ve been a log time Firefox user but I am in the process of changing over to the new Chromium-based Edge as my default browser. I’ve already transferred all my passwords/logins over to Edge complements of the Bitwarden Password Manager extension but I wasn’t happy
