So I have four towers, most used for backup purposes but not enough jacks on the back of my router to plug them all in. There are four plugins on the back but I have to keep my cable box plugged into one for the […]
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You can have Artificial Intelligence (AI) create a piece of artwork for you by going to this site: https://app.wombo.art It’s pretty easy to use. Type anything where it says Type anything in the Enter prompt box or pick one of the suggestions just under it.
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I’m one of those people who have tons of little bits of paper notes on my desk and I decided I wanted to try some Sticky Notes. Not the paper ones but digital, on my computer. I believe Windows 7 had a built-in sticky note
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I was just surfing online and all of a sudden my web pages refused to load. I checked the internet connection and everything seemed to be working. Using other browsers confirmed this. So, it was just Opera. I got lucky this time because Opera did
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I came across a post on Reddit about someone trying to stream from archive.org (the people trying to back up the internet) so I decided to check it out. It can be done. I’ll give you the same answer that I gave that Redditor. Go
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Before I started using VLC as my main video player, my media player of choice was Media Player Classic. If you installed any codec packs like K-Lite, then it’s possible that you have MPC already installed. One thing I like to do is take screenshots
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Yesterday, my 4K Downloader quit on me. It kept showing the word Error with a red triangle by it. I tried different videos, restarting 4K, restarting my computer. The other downloaders on my system were working so it was a 4K issue. I clicked on
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A woman called and said she couldn’t get into her computer, which usually means, “I can’t get on Facebook,” but it turns out this issue was a bit more serious. She said she got one of those ads that pop up in the browser claiming
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I don’t know how long this has been in Opera, too lazy to look it up, but discovered it by accident, Opera’s Reader Mode. When activated it gives you a cleaner page to read with menu bars and ads removed. You can toggle it on
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My sister gave me her old Canon PowerShot A560. A nice little camera but one major problem. It will not stay on. The viewscreen goes blank with an error message to “Change The Batteries” and then it turns off. I’ve tried a number of different
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With Halloween only a few days away, I’m a fan of these two-sentence horror stories. Each one is only two sentences long, as the name implies. Here are some I like: Have you heard any? Got any to tell? To the comments with you.
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I was recently trying to stream videos through my network using VLC and at first, I couldn’t get it to work. I followed numerous suggestions online but still no luck. Then I tried it this morning when I got up and now it works. I
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This method only works through your local network and not over the Internet. You can start up a movie on one of your computers and stream it to other computers on your network, and maybe your phone (untested). Set Up The Server First, open up
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I was helping someone copy pictures from their iPhone when I noticed the file format was HEIC. It didn’t produce any thumbnail image and no program could open it. HEIC files are a picture format introduced by Apple. It stands for High-Efficiency Image Container. It’s
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