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Simple SATA -> USB Adapter Sometimes you might need to temporarily hook up an internal hard drive to another computer. You might want to scan/clean an infected drive, for example, or use it as a down and dirty backup solution (mainly what I use them […]
How many times have you had to create a document and you think to yourself, “wait, I did this for another document about a week ago!” And didn’t you wish that you could quickly copy the styles from your previous document to your new one?
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Bypassing The User Account Controls Do you ever get annoyed by the constant messages generated by the User Account Control dialog box? Frankly I get a little tired of getting the message “Do you want this app to make changes to your PC?” Yes, yes
Extensions For Edge Browser The title might be a bit misleading because until the new version of MS Edge is released there are no extensions but get ready, they are on their way. While you might not have the ability yet, it is still great
When you have large worksheets in your Excel workbooks it can be cumbersome and time-consuming to move around in them. This is a slick little trick that has existed in Excel for a very long time, but most folks do not know about it. Follow
What is DNS? Download bandwidth is not the only thing that affects how fast your internet service feels when you’re online. Of course, with greater bandwidth, downloads are completed more quickly than they would be with less bandwidth. There is no way to make a
Signing in to Windows is like giving a two year old a bath – it needs to be done, but no one is happy about it! In the past we may have skipped entering a password or performed super secret settings trickery so we didn’t
Color Picking Tools I started needing a color picker when I started using WordPress to develop my department’s website. I needed, at various times, to do the following: Match the color of my organization’s logo Find and use a color that wasn’t immediately available in
Multiple Desktops Many people are not sure why you might want to use more than the one desktop provided in Windows. That is a valid question and I will try to address that in this post and hopefully you too will soon be benefiting from
File Explorer The Windows 8.x Start Menu did a good job of showing us all the Programs installed on our system. Windows 10, not so much. Now, it’s a single column that we are forced to drill through in an old-timey way. There is a
The Envelope feature in Word is pretty intuitive and fairly easy to use so that you can create really professional looking envelopes that rival the ones you get at the Stationers. Word makes it so easy in fact, that it takes the liberty of assuming
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Pictures vs “Mystery Man” Avatars Just recently I decided that I would like to associate the Contacts on my cellphone with pictures, hopefully their faces. Yes, the silhouette is nice, but it makes it a little hard to quickly identify who is calling. Like most
From Then To Now I have to admit that I have always been attracted to cameras and I have had quite a few over the years. Also, through the years I managed to evolve from a basic Brownie to those wonderful (at the time) throw-away
Have a document that has multiple highlighting in it? Yes, lots of folks DO have documents like this and sometimes they have a need to change the color of the highlighting. It could be that you have more than one person working on the document
