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In the US, contrary to popular belief, there is no guarantee of privacy. Nowhere in the constitution is it mentioned. There are vague forms of it in some amendments, but it is never directly addressed. Do not be afraid– this is not a political diatribe. […]
I was sitting here messing around on my social Apps and noticed that I never really Direct Message (DM) anyone on them. Yes, once in a great while I will DM someone on Facebook but not very often on Instagram and almost never on the
Some of us might not like our phone automatically setting the date and time for us. The system uses this for time stamping your text messages and many other functions that require the time and date. The reason this came up is my work schedule. I like to
Creating a hyperlink to a document in a shared location (i.e., network drive, Sharepoint library) can be a very effective way to email a document to one of your colleagues. A hyperlink, unlike an attachment, will not create a copy of the file, take up
Glary is easy to use and with one click you can clean out the junk. If you want more tools, they are available. This article covers the basics. I will not drill down into all the features of this program. However, as you move through
Sharing A Keyboard And Mouse With Multiple Computers I recently wrote about sharing monitors, but it is possible to just share a mouse and keyboard. I used a program a long time ago called Mouse Without Borders. You must download and install it on all
Basic Computing 6 – Cut, Copy, and Paste It’s surprising how many users do not know how to use Cut, Copy, and Paste. Yet, of all the basic processes in Windows, Cut, Copy, and Paste are probably the most useful and important to understand and
It gets confusing when thinking about clicking. Is it right-click or left-click or even center-click? When do I double-click and when single? When I describe something a click means to point to the icon or item and click the left mouse button. Any instruction to
Sometimes when I want to back up folders, I just right-click on them and click on Send To in the menu and pick my drive. This usually works for all removable drives but I noticed it doesn’t list any local drives. So I set about
At work this past week I had a co-worker ask how they could delete/remove an email address from the Office 365 Web App. They wanted to remove the address from the auto-fill part of the email. She was asking because someone on the list changed their email address and the
If you have multiple computers and not enough monitors or enough monitors but not enough space to set everything up, then there is good news. It’s possible to share a monitor. There are various ways: KVM Switch A KVM Switch or Keyboard Video Mouse switch
As I am sure you know by now, the table options in Word are plentiful and very flexible by default. You know how it is, you create a table and every single time you spend time modifying the properties. If it seems you use the
Basic Computing 5 – Creating Desktop Shortcuts I have one particular client who, if he doesn’t have a shortcut on his desktop to a particular program or folder, is completely lost. I have shown him multiple times how to create these shortcuts, he’s even written
It’s pretty well accepted that Microsoft isn’t very good at naming things. At the very least, the names they come up with are misleading at best and downright deceptive at worst. Take the name ”suggestions”, for example. Read ”Suggestions” as ”annoying ads”. As I’ve said
