A woman called me and she wanted to download some pictures from her Facebook account to her iPhone. She was going to have them printed up later from some photo service, probably Walmart. I only had remote access to her computer to do this. If […]
I had a small video that I wanted to remove the background audio from before uploading to Facebook. You can do this using VLC. Here’s how. Open VLC and then go to Media (top left-hand corner), then Convert/Save… or press on Ctrl + R. In
I wrote before about enabling Flash games on Facebook in Chrome but the only problem is you have to do this every time you open the browser. I was looking for a more permanent fix and I think I found it. It does require using
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A number of people get so much junk and Malware on their systems simply by not paying attention during the installation of certain programs. They click next, next, next one too many times. There are programs that try to protect you from such third-party installations
I was in the browser options in Firefox and I noticed a blue link across the top: Your browser is being managed by your organization. These messages usually mean some kind of restriction has been put in place. But by whom and why? It turns
We recently had a storm here and lightning caused a power outage. A friend of mine had her computer burned out and her internet modem. I can’t fix the modem but the computer, I’m hoping, was just the motor gone. I did have an old
A number of people called me because some of the games on Facebook weren’t working. They are all using Chrome which disables Flash by default. Of course, those days are numbered– I believe at the end of 2020. Anyway, if you are on Facebook still
If more than one person is sharing your version of Firefox, you can set up individual profiles to keep your user information separate from the others. Firefox Profiles In the search bar type run. Then, in the Run box, type firefox -p This starts up
Crashing Video Drivers Or Malware My nephew, the last few days, had a problem with his video drivers crashing. Can’t remember its exact name or model but it was an NVIDIA GeForce. When I first tried to fix it I noticed he was almost out
If you press Ctrl + B in Firefox you’ll get a bookmarks bar on the side that allows you to conveniently access your bookmarks. It’s like switching your bookmarks bar from the top to the side. Some people prefer it that way. Opera doesn’t allow
When I first got into the internet and email I settled on The Mozilla Suite as my web browser and email client (Opera was my second browser). Then The Mozilla Foundation gave up the suite and it became SeaMonkey. At the same time, I switched
I needed to RIP or copy an audio CD on my computer. Rather than download any other software to do the job, I decided to use the software already installed on my system. A bit of searching around and I found that I could do
Every now and then I like to save pictures, memes, and whatnot off the Internet. Usually, they are a standard format like JPG or PNG, and sometimes GIF. But then an odd thing came about– pictures ending with the extension JFIF. I would not have
I’m going to show you how to do the most Important Thing that you can do online. Waste time. Warning: some of these sites might actually be useful. Starting with the Top option of watching grass grow. Watching Grass Grow Too much for you? Then
