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Targeted Ads The other day my wifie commented how it was strange that the sponsored ads on Facebook changed after she started searching for meal delivery services. I was in the undesirable position to explain that like any company, they are going track you in […]
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Mail Merge In Word When you use the mail merge feature of Word, you can either merge to the printer or merge to a new document. In my opinion, the best option is to merge to the latter since it gives you the ability to
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We’ll be talking about the Windows Character Map today. Actually, the new Character Map App that you can get for free at the Windows Store. Its use is so simple that demonstrating it would insult peoples’ intelligence, so I won’t bother with that. The main
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Paper CD/DVD Sleeves Most CD/DVD packs now come in spindles, without any cases or sleeves. I’ve been using this method on and off for awhile now when I needed a quick casing. Take an ordinary sheet of 8×11 paper. Fold it in half by length
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Kindle Fire For the last month or so I have been messing around with my sons’ Kindle Fires (I have three monsters in my house plus my little girl who is an angel). What I have realized is there are many processes that you need
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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