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Note: Using this feature requires a Microsoft account Most of you will be aware of the new AI component in Windows known as “Copilot” but did you know that Copilot comes equipped with a range of plugins? The majority of these plugins specifically target certain […]
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There are many email clients that we can use. These are some of the most popular ones out there: Microsoft Outlook Gmail AOL Mozilla The one I use for work is Office 365 Outlook Online. In my emails, I have a pane to the right of
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A guy brought me his Chrome Book because the messenger on Facebook was acting very slow. When he clicked on a contact to open a conversation, it would take a few minutes for the messenger to get ready. Sometimes up to 5 minutes. He also
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The other day I was messing around on my Instagram account and it asked me for permission to access my camera. Since I’m using Instagram I gave them permission. This made me think that I might want to adjust the settings for the app. Also,
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Two things VLC offers you are to save a snapshot or screenshot of a video and to record clips from a video or even an entire video if you want. One thing I like to do is to change the default save folders to the
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This last week my wife’s Samsung Galaxy S22 Android Phone stopped charging once it hit 85%. At first, we thought something was wrong with the cord or battery. After some research, we found out why this was happening to her device. It was a simple
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We just had an Internet/Phone/Cable blackout that started yesterday from around 6:30 PM to 9:30 AM this morning. Everything eventually came back online except the internet on my main computer. I tried connecting using different browsers but nothing. It was working on my other computers
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Not too long ago I bought hearing aids. It was clear that I was beginning to need them in both ears. Now I can’t imagine NOT wearing them each day. This article describes the simple way I connected my hearing aids to the TV audio
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I love creating articles and videos about mobile devices and this week is no different. You can check out some of them right here: How To Adjust Screen Timeout On Samsung How To Change App Icons On Samsung How To Turn Live Caption On Android
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I was downloading some files with the Vivaldi browser and the download manager would open every time on the left-hand side of the browser which I found annoying. It’s easy enough to disable this. Click on the V icon in the top left-hand corner of
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There are a couple of ways to deal with tabs in Word 365. You can drag things around on your Ruler, but that is not my preferred method. I find it too confusing and that takes up time for me and we all know Carol
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A few days ago my son had a birthday and received a new phone. This is his first one and he was very excited about it. After a couple of days, he came and asked me why the screen would time out so fast. The
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In an earlier post, we talked about using Quick Parts in Word. This is a great way to save you lots of valuable time and keystrokes when you are working with short documents, (i.e., memos, letters, resumes, etc.), that tend to be used over and
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I recently uninstalled the K-Lite codec pack from my system. One of the downsides to this action was that when I opened File Explorer some of my videos were displaying the VLC icon instead of the expected video thumbnail. I followed some instructions online about
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