My uncle called me and he couldn’t get the Internet to work on his Compaq AMD laptop. It’s simple enough to enable or disable it. Just hold down on the Fn key, usually in the lower left-hand corner of the keyboard, and then the F12 […]
How To Enable/Disable Wireless On Compaq AMD Laptop Read More »
A bug in Opera. Seems many people at the Opera forum are having this problem. You type in a web address or a search term in the URL address bar and hit enter and… nothing. The words go gray and that’s it. It happens randomly.
Grayed Out URL Address In Opera – Solved Read More »
A guy called me because his Facebook didn’t seem to display properly. He couldn’t see who was online in the chat. He’s still on the old version of Facebook where the green dots are separated and to the right of the contact picture. In the
How To Open Window SysMenu With Hotkey Read More »
Yahoo keeps sending me email claiming I will not be able to use the Thunderbird email client to access my email. I jumped through their hoops before to get a secure password for Thunderbird but I’m afraid I might not be able to use Thunderbird
How To Close Out A Yahoo Email Account Read More »
So some commenters earned their bragging rights, but for those who didn’t here are the answers. read: http://davescomputertips.com/riddle-me-this/ 1. 4 eggs. In all steps, you are dealing with the same two eggs. 2. 87. Just turn the picture upside down. 3. 2110. So first you
Riddle Me This. . . The Answers Read More »
A woman called me because she had copied some pictures from her computer to her phone. It’s an Android. She then takes them to Walmart to get prints made but she couldn’t see them on her phone. It’s a naming issue. I experimented with my
How To Transfer Pictures, Computer To Camera Read More »
Enough of the computers, let’s take a break. Let’s keep our brains busy doing something else. Like riddles. Here are six. I don’t think they are too hard. Comment with what you think the answers are and in a week or so I’ll tell you
I wrote before about a website where you can download videos from Twitter. Read here: https://davescomputertips.com/how-to-download-videos-from-twitter/ Now let’s try this using an extension called sssTwitter. First, go to this web page sssTwitter – https://ssstwitter.com in your browser of choice and click on the Download Extension
Download Twitter Videos With sssTwitter Extension Read More »
There is an extension that makes it very easy to download videos from Facebook. This one seems to be only available for Chrome-based browsers. Before you can use it in Opera, you need to install an extension called Install Chrome Extensions. In Opera, go here:
Download Facebook Videos With “Video Downloader For Facebook” Read More »
The procedure for both OpenOffice And LibreOffice is basically the same. I will be mainly using OpenOffice in my example. OpenOffice – https://www.openoffice.org LibreOffice – https://www.libreoffice.org Open the program of your choice and create a new Text document (OpenOffice) or Writer Document (LibreOffice). Then in
How To Print Envelopes In OpenOffice, LibreOffice Read More »
Facebook is rolling out a new look. You can switch back temporarily but eventually, you are going to lose that option. There is a more permanent option and that is by using an extension. This extension basically looks and works the same in all browsers.
How To Revert To Facebook’s Classic Look, Permanently Read More »
My sister had some DVDs of their vacation from years ago. They were originally VHS tapes transferred to DVD using a VHS to DVD recorder. When she tried to watch some of their own vacation videos recently, they would not play. The first thing that
How To Finalize DVD Made On Different Device Read More »
My Uncle sent me a video that he wanted me to change the background on and put in a slide show of pictures. Way beyond what I can do, but I found another solution. Have you seen videos online where someone is talking and you
How To Add A Picture-In-Picture Effect To A Video Read More »
PhotoFiltre 7 I usually do my basic photo editing in PhotoFiltre 7. Sometimes I need to blur sensitive data. I used the smudge tool originally (it looks like a pointing finger in the toolbar) until I realized that PhotoFiltre has a built-in blur option. (Ed
How To Blur Pictures With PhotoFiltre 7 Read More »
