I’ve been having problems with my cable for a few months now. Sometimes I just lose the channels with a 5102 error stating there is a problem connecting to the media server. Then I have my YouTube videos constantly crashing, from the app on the […]
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Download OpenOffice Download LibreOffice For privacy, you might want to clear out the recent documents list kept in both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Note: When you clear out the list through one app, it clears it out for all the apps as in the Spreadsheet and
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I wrote about this before. You can read it here: How To Use Video As Wallpaper With VLC I called it flaky. I went online to try to find a way to make this procedure more stable. I didn’t find anything else online but digging
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Download CCleaner Love it or hate it, CCleaner is still a popular tool for removing temporary junk from your system. I usually only use this once a month. I’m in the habit of cleaning out my temp files before I make a system image. If
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To set a video as a background or wallpaper in VLC, just open up a video and in the top menu click on Video, and then Set as Wallpaper. Seems simple enough but it doesn’t stay simple in my case. The video, when set, opens
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When I place a picture in the background on my computer, I either use one image that gets mirrored on both monitors or use one large picture and span it across both monitors. Read here: How To Span Pictures Over Multiple Monitors But I discovered
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It happens. You play a video in VLC and it doesn’t fill up the screen. You still end up with black bars above and below the video. In this case, you might have to play around with the Zoom, Aspect Ratio, or Cropping options in
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A man brought me a cassette tape to transfer to a CD. I wrote about how to do this before. Read: Copy Compact Cassette To Computer Audacity I ran through my procedure only to discover the final recording volume was very low. I tried to
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I recently watched a video on Dave’s Computer Tips Youtube channel called, How To Take Snapshot Of A PDF. This video deals with using Adobe Acrobat, but I’m not a fan. I do like Foxit and I got curious and started clicking around to see
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Download PotPlayer Here. I was trying to fix a streaming issue in VLC, read here: Fix Choppy Streaming YouTube Video In VLC One of the things I was trying to do was isolate the issue of whether it was the player or my connection. Windows
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I usually have a bunch of HTML files on my system for one reason or another. When I double-click on one it would open in my default browser, Opera. After the last update, that stopped. Instead, I was getting a blank screen and in the
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If you have two or more monitors and you want your videos to open on a second or third monitor, full screen, then do the following: Go to Tools and then Preferences or press Ctrl + P. Click on the Video icon towards the top.
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Note: The Google Play Store and Android apps are not supported in this version. You might want to first read a list of other known issues. Warning from their site: Chrome OS Flex is currently released for early access testing and is not suitable for
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I keep seeing people posting their Wordle score on Twitter and decided to check it out. I settled on this website called Wordle Game. Go to their website and you’ll get the default 5-word puzzle. Your goal is to guess the word and you have
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