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How Fast is Your Internet Connection? We all want the speediest connection as is possible to the Internet. We are also subject to the contract we set up with our Internet Service Provider (ISP). Generally speaking, if you are getting about 85%, or better, of […]
2-Step Verification Recently, it was reported that a prominent security expert acquired a database with 272.3 million eMail accounts, with passwords, from a hacker on a Russian underground forum. All it cost him was a nice review of the hacker’s skills. The stolen IDs/passwords contained
Creating forms in Word is easy – folks do it all the time! But suppose you want a form that folks can fill in – on their computer? Not to worry! Turns out you can do this, and fairly painlessly as well! You will need
Control Panel on Steroids I came across this a few times in the past but never really fooled around with it. I had it on an older system that conked out on me but haven’t bothered with it since. It involves creating a special folder
What is an ISO Image? The International Standards Organization (ISO) maintains standards across a number of categories including CD and DVD formats. “An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents from every
The Problem Recently, I updated my Mozilla Thunderbird eMail application to the most up-to-date version. We have all done this, or at least, the eMail application has automatically done it for you. The one thing I noticed after the update is that when composing an
You can easily protect the formatting of your worksheet without it affecting your data or text. Follow the steps below to learn how: Select all the cells in your worksheet. On the Home tab or your Ribbon in the Cells group, select Format Cells to
Sometimes you have a table with a fill color in the top row to make it stand out. But how about if you decide you would like to have that exact same fill color in another row in your table to draw the reader’s eyes
If you do a search on-line for tips about speeding up your computer, you’ll find a ton of tips, tweaks, and programs claiming to help you speed up your system. Most programs that you download which promise to speed up your system are crap. Especially
Facebook Videos I’ve never uploaded a video to Facebook on my own account, but for my Uncle, on his account. To date, I have uploaded 217 videos for him. He’s one of those people who, no matter how many times I show him or write
Many times when you are working on documents with other colleagues there is cause to protect certain text in that document; they are marked do not check in the Language dialog box. Also there could be styles that are set so that they will not
Legos Teams With Chrome The LEGO company has teamed up with Google to make something that I think is really cool. It’s called Build with Chrome, and you get to design things online with virtual LEGO bricks. I play with the real ones as well.
Screen Shots Before VLC At one time it was nearly impossible to take a screen shot of a movie scene because of a thing called interlacing. If you tried using the Print Screen button, I can tell you from experience that all you would have
[message type=”warning”] Following the instructions in this article requires that you make changes to the Windows Registry. Make Backups before you proceed!! [/message] Missing in Action What’s wrong with this picture? Well, I see a Malwarebytes option to scan a file or folder, but where
