Find Similar Images Dave’s Computer Tips recently ran a Giveaway Contest for Duplicate Photo Cleaner which is designed to help you find duplicate pictures on your hard drive(s). If you don’t win one of the licenses or if the draw is already over by the […]
Unwanted “Friends” A woman called and told me she had added someone to her Facebook account thinking she knew who it was– it turns out she didn’t. She didn’t like some of the things he was saying and wanted to block him. She had already
Android Tablet A guy recently bought me his Android tablet and he wanted me to download a few TV programs on it, like The Jefferson’s, Three’s Company and The Cosby Show. I found a few episodes on-line and plugged his tablet into my computer expecting
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Metadata This is a picture I took. With my camera, from the stone ages, like all of my tech. 🙂 I can tell you the exact date and time: 01/04/2016 5:22 PM I can tell you the exact size: 4320×3240 (4.43 MB) I can tell
Subscription Service I’m assuming that you have a PayPal account and know how to make payments. But what if you pay for a subscription service that deducts a set amount from your account every month. I subscribe to a service where I pay every three
I don’t mind saying I’ve been backing up since day one. My first computer was a 486SLC. It only had a floppy drive and that’s what I originally used. They would only hold about 1.4 MB of data. At the time, you really didn’t need
A guy just called me and he couldn’t remember his wireless password. He had computers already connected but was trying to connect another device. You could just rummage through the router settings to find it that way, but Windows gives you a few options. Windows
One of the things I do when cleaning out a computer is to reset all the browsers including the ones not being used. This post will concentrate on Internet Explorer (IE) version 11 running on Windows 7, but the same steps will apply to other
I just had to clean out another laptop– this one was running Windows 7. I ran the usual cleaning procedures which you can read about in this article: How To Get Rid of Most Malware After all was said and done, the Chrome browser seemed
Opera I’ve experimented and changed web browsers over the years. I started with IE, then Netscape, Opera and Firefox. Then Mozilla Suite which became SeaMonkey. Then there’s K-Melon, Otter, and Vivaldi and Chrome. Tried them all. Originally, I settled on the Mozilla Suite until Mozilla
I come across a picture on my computer every now and then and sometimes need to find out what the source of that picture is. This is when a reverse image search comes in handy. Just go to Google and click on the word Images
Ripping the CD/DVD I recently had to upload a music CD as a video to Facebook. First, I had to rip the CD to my computer, so I used Windows Media Player for that. If you open Windows Media Player full screen, you should easily
Converting an Image to Text I was cleaning up my computer by backing up some older documents and other stuff by and then deleting them from my system. I came across a humorous graphic called, “15 Most Computer Illiterate People Ever. How Is It Possible
I did something yesterday that I never did before in all my years of fixing computers– I connected to a computer to fix it remotely. A guy whose computer I was trying to fix asked me to do it. Even though I have never used
