So, you open up a movie on your system and it still shows the black bars, usually top and bottom, even when you are watching the movie in Full-Screen mode. There is an easy fix– just right-click on the movie screen, then click on Video […]
Wish.com is a site like Amazon that sells a variety of products from various sellers. This site has some questionable business practices. Here are some of their marketing ploys that I really don’t like and some tips to make your buying experience more enjoyable. Log
This Only Applies To Opera It’s been an issue since as long as I can remember. I save HTML files on my computer all the time. I wanted to save a copy of the Dave’s Computer Tips newsletter, so in my SeaMonkey email program I
This problem started with Chrome. The top menu became very large in size like someone lowered the resolution of their monitor which makes everything look bigger, or set the DPI settings too high. I know I did neither. Then it happened to the Avast Secure
I wanted to print a list of fonts on my system in the actual font faces themselves for easy reference when needed. I found a simple program online that could do such a job. It’s called Print My Fonts. At the time of this writing,
My main burning software currently is BurnAware Free. Warning: At the end of the setup it offers to install WinZip and 360 Total Security. Just click on Decline, or you can accept. The interface is pretty straightforward. You make an Audio CD and an MP3
What would you look like as a zombie? Go to Make Me Zombie to find out. You’ll need a clear photo of your face in a JPG, PNG, or GIF format. A minimum background also helps. Go to their website and click on the big
Apparently, one of the world’s leading health issues is a lack of sleep. One of the causes is all our tech– especially bright monitors and other screens before you go to sleep. The problem seems to be the blue light coming from these devices. The
Do you remember ever watching a TV show or movie and a character gets hurt and his only concern is getting his Internet history erased? Are you one of these people? The best way to get rid of a browser’s history is not to save
PWNED – PassWord owNED Yet another security breach in the news. Want to find out if any of your email accounts have been breached? Just go to Have I Been PWNED. Type in your email address and click on the pwned? button at the end.
If you look down by the clock you may or may not see an icon as in my case it looks like the letters ENG. It’s so you can change the language quickly if you need such a service. In older versions of Windows, this
If you want to download videos and are concerned about the software and what is bundled in it, here’s a more secure way to do it. One commenter in a previous article suggested using Avast Secure Browser, so I decided to try it out. Avast Secure
I like to save copies of my uploads to Daves Computer Tips. Originally I used the MHTML format to save the documents. This allowed me to save the document as one file compared to saving it as a complete web page. But this format seems
