I ended up on another Spanish website, and a small window appeared in the top right-hand corner of my Opera browser, asking if I wanted to translate it to English. I didn’t click on it right away, so it closed. But what if I changed […]
Forgotten Password A man called because he couldn’t access his email. A forgotten password. He was using Chrome. I went to the password manager in Chrome, and it had somehow saved his email address as the password, which I was pretty sure it wasn’t. In
I have a bunch of videos on my computer that I can stream through my Android TV cable box to watch on my TV. Everything was working fine until one day I noticed that VLC wasn’t displaying all the videos in my shared media folder
I hooked up my DVD drive and lost power to my entire system. My CyberPowerPC already had a DVD drive installed, but it wasn’t working. I checked inside the computer and discovered the reason. There were no cables hooked up. No wires to be seen,
My Sister’s Android screen froze up. She tried to restart the phone by holding the power button. The shutdown screen options appeared, but tapping any of the icons had no effect. It seemed like everything was working, but the touch screen. So if your touch
I was watching a YouTube video, and all of a sudden, it started to fast-forward, then pause. This repeated with every video I tried. I suspected my remote control at first, so I switched remotes, but the problem persisted. I exited YouTube and switched to
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I clicked on an email to read it, only to see it had a black background with black text, almost unreadable. I noticed a small switch symbol just above the message to the right. I clicked on it, and now the email has a white
This is a weird one. Opera is to blame, of course. I noticed my browser was slowly being taken over by the Spanish language. I have nothing against it, I just can’t speak it. This morning, I went to Facebook, and the login page was
Watching movies copied to a flash drive on my TiVo cable box. This project originally started differently. I connected my Android cable box to my computer. I wondered if I could access any of the files on it, especially the recordings. The first problem I
I’m thinking of turning my old Acer desktop into a media server. I have a few DVDs that I would like to rip to obtain a digital copy. I wrote before about this using “WinX DVD Ripper”. Read here: How To RIP DVD With WinX
I went to log in to Facebook this morning, only to discover my Facebook login page was in Spanish. I clicked on “Iniciar sesion” to see if my entire Facebook page was in Spanish. It was not. Back to the login page. I noticed at
A woman brought me two HP laptops to check over for her. Both had Windows 10 but were not compatible with Windows 11. Otherwise, they were both in pretty good shape. A problem on one of the computers was a constantly high CPU and disk usage,
I never tried to get a Netflix account because I assumed you needed a credit card to sign up. Something I’m lacking. But as it turns out, you don’t. You can do it with “Netflix gift cards”. My Brother recently gave me a card, so
My uncle wanted to sell something on Facebook Marketplace. He wanted me to post it on Facebook for him. So, I signed into his account. Down the left-hand menu, click on “Marketplace.” If you don’t see it, click the “See more” option. Then scroll down
