I wrote previously about an HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca that I acquired and what I had to do to replace the hard drive. I was wondering why anyone would give up such a laptop because of a hard drive issue. Then I discovered the real […]
When it comes to family members and some friends, I’m where old computers go to their last resting place. So I either fix them and make them work again or dissect them for parts. I recently received an HP Notebook – 15-bs023ca that looked like
There was a prediction for two stars in a binary system to collide and form a massive explosion, a Red Nova. A star called KIC 9832227 in the constellation Cygnus located about 1,940 ± 30 light-years away. A YouTube channel called THEREALPAX has a live
A woman called me because her pictures were not showing up on Facebook after being uploaded. I uploaded some for her remotely through Teamviewer. They were not displayed in her pictures on her profile but they were shown on her timeline. Read: How To Connect
Have you ever wanted to create an Animated GIF? A series of pictures strung together that when opened it’s like watching a video clip. I’m going to show you how to make one using a photo editing program called GIMP. Download GIMP But first, you
Sometimes you may have issues with your browser and resetting is the only option to fix it, so here is how to do it with the most popular browsers. This list is based on the browsers I have on my system at this time, all
Microsoft finally dropped support for Internet Explorer on June 15 after 27 years. I know it’s a bit late writing this but then I came across this: A South Korean fan named Jung Ki-young created an Internet Explorer gravestone. Its epitaph: “He was a good
My uncle got in touch with me and said he could upload messages to Facebook on his Android phone but couldn’t upload videos or pictures. I suggested restarting his phone first. Sometimes this clears things out – like restarting a computer That didn’t work so
So, you are using another writing program but decide to switch to LibreOffice. You want to use it as your default – that means the main program that opens when you double-click on an associated file type. Usually, during the installation, you do get a
Some people still don’t like the modern-day version of Facebook. There used to be a number of extensions that would set the look of Facebook back to its classic days, but most of them don’t seem to work anymore. One that kind of works is
…And Set It As An Animated Wallpaper In Opera WebP : “WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.”
I updated OpenOffice today and discovered that the spell checker wasn’t working. I know because I’m used to seeing a sea of red squiggles on my page. So either I just became a champion speller or more than likely there was something wrong with OpenOffice.
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Just a quick tip. Sorry, no screenshots. My sister was having trouble logging into the Facebook app on her Android phone. She would log in and everything seemed Ok for a few seconds, then she would get a Login Session Expired message. She would log
I recently came across a backup of my old web page from Oct 2002. I decided to share some highlights from back in 2002. First, I wrote about using an uncompressed drive. This was back in the Win 95, 98, 98SE, and later the ME
