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
So I’m scanning through Twitter and I see someone I might want to follow. In the Twitter post, just move your cursor up to the name of the Twitter user. In my case it turns blue and I get a small pop-up info box about
So every now and then I like to scan through the “Twitterverse” and every now and then I come across a video I like to download. None of my downloaders seem to be capable of downloading Twitter videos. I was trying to find a program
Sometimes I need to open two pages at once to make a comparison. I normally open two tabs and just switch back and forth. This time I decided to try to open one of the tabs in a new window. I right-clicked on the tab
I open up a program sometimes and it’s off-screen to the point I can’t grab the top bar to drag the window elsewhere. So, to move the window, just use the Alt-key and the Space bar on your keyboard . A small menu will open
A woman called me because she couldn’t sign out of Facebook. When she clicked on the down-arrow to get to the Log Out option, she would immediately get taken to the settings page instead. I tried it on mine to see if it was a
For reasons beyond my understanding, I decided out of the blue to update my VLC media player. So across the top menu, I clicked on Help then Check For Updates… I had version 3.0.6 and version 3.0.7 was available so I accepted the prompts to
I was working on someone’s Windows 10 laptop that kept going to a BSOD Critical Process Died. I couldn’t get into Safe Mode and the Reset options wouldn’t work. All the built-in options from Windows: Startup repair, SFC, DISM, system restore, and chkdsk– none worked.
I have a TV that makes a better monitor than my monitors. I could hook up the TV and computer at the same time but that means switching back and forth from one source to the next. I have like half a dozen monitors and,
EasyCAP I’ve been fooling around with TV capture devices on and off for years now. This allows you to hook up your cable/satellite to your computer. I’ve rediscovered this one recently called EasyCAP that I purchased a few years ago. I decided to hook it
My Uncle called me because he said everything on his screen was gone all tiny. His cat had run across is keyboard and somehow managed to reduce or zoom out on his Chrome browser making everything look tiny. So here is how to Zoom In
