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What is FTP? You hear these terms thrown around by Geeks as if everyone within earshot knows, but what is FTP? FTP simply stands for File Transfer Protocol, which is a standard, like the HTTP you use to load web pages, that uses the client […]
Windows Shutdown Timeouts When you tell Windows 10 and previous versions going back to XP to shut down your computer, it waits a few seconds to give running programs a chance to save their individual data. Normally the default is about five seconds. You can
Desktop Notifications I recently got a message from Youtube asking if I wanted to enable Desktop Notifications. I honestly did not know what this meant so I allowed it to see what would happen. I soon found out, as a little pop-up message appeared in
Google Play In my last article, How to Load Clash of Clans on Kindle Fire, we covered how to load Clash of Clans. Now we need to show you how to install Google Play. That is right, you can connect to Google Play and load your
Table of Contents Perhaps you are writing the great American novel – or you just have a very long document. Either way, you might want to create a Table of Contents (TOC) for that document. The easiest method for creating a TOC is using heading
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What Is AutoPlay? Whenever you plug in a USB device such as a thumb drive, CD/DVD, camera, phone, or external drive into your computer, Windows needs to know how to handle it. Sometimes, the Windows default behavior for these devices is not what you want.
Galaxy S3 Foibles Last month we returned from a three week European visit during which my wife’s Galaxy S3 began playing up and photos she had snapped were coming up blank or simply black images in the phone’s gallery. I quickly checked that what photos
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OneDrive There are many cloud synchronization solutions offered by major companies on the Internet these days. Microsoft has OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) in its arsenal to follow the pack. The familiar DropBox is one, along with Amazon, Google, and many others. Regardless of which one you
Windows Updates Keeping your Windows 10 machine running smoothly is a never-ending story. Updates of all kinds need constant attention. We all know how important it is to keep the Windows operating system up-to-date for security reasons, and if you like, so-called new features. However,
I first played DOOM 3 when it was released in 2004. At the time I was running a Pentium 4 3.2Ghz PC with 2Gb of RAM and an Nvidia 6800GT 256Mb AGP video card. Of course back then I thought my PC was the mutts nuts
Opera Interface Opera has a habit of changing its browser interface, sometimes for the good and sometimes not, in my opinion. That’s why I stuck with version 28 for so long. This information is current as of: 1:11 PM, August 12, 2017 with Version 47.0.2631.39
Clash of Clans My kids and I love playing games together– even games on mobile devices like Clash of Clans. But during Christmas this last year my boys all received Kindle Fire 7s, which they love. The only issue with this is that it does
AutoText AutoText has always been a very useful feature in Word. There are many reasons why you would want to remove an AutoText entry created previously, including just because you had a need for it, but no longer do. Suppose you had created several AutoText
Storage Sense Of all the ways Windows 10 has found to annoy us we must admit that it manages to do some things right. One of these might be overlooked if you are not aware of it, and that would be a feature called Storage
