YouTube has declared war on downloading videos from its site. Most downloading programs and extensions no longer work. There is one that still works but only in Firefox. It’s a bit of a pain to set up. Installing The Add-On Just go to this address […]
YouTube has declared war on downloading videos from its site. Most downloading programs and extensions no longer work but you can still use VLC. You’ll need to enable the Advanced controls in the View menu then choose Advanced Controls to see the Record button. Open
If you’ve been fooling around with networking at all, you probably came across this issue more than once. You try to access a computer on your network and get a network error: Windows cannot access \\ (your computer). Search online and you’ll find 101 solutions
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
