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Dropbox is a powerful cloud storage site. A free account gives you 2GB of space to store anything. For many this is enough to store typical Document folder contents. I do not recommend saving pictures and videos as they take up a large amount of …
This new scam, as reported by Sophos security company, is deviously aimed at tricking people into revealing their Facebook login credentials which can then be used for nefarious purposes. The scam works like this: One of your friends is tricked into revealing his or her …
Years ago tabs were not a part of any browser. When we wanted to look at a website we would open the browser and locate that one website. If we wanted to view a different site and keep the other one open, we would open …
It is nearing the end of a remarkable year. I think many of us are happy it is almost over; it hasn’t been a particularly happy time. There has been one good thing, though, that benefits not only our readers but DCT, as well. Our …
How many times are you looking for a password to login to a website and cannot locate it anywhere? Then you remember you can sign in to that site using your old computer because it remembers it. When you click the login button on that …
It has always seemed totally incongruous to me that, while many users continue to complain bitterly about Microsoft and Windows 10’s data collection, one of the most prolific data collectors of them all produces three of the most popular services in the world– Google Chrome …
Those of us who have reached, shall we say, a certain age, will well remember the old black and white photos we used to snap using equally old cameras. If you have any black and white photos saved in digital format that you would maybe …
Restoro is a relatively new system optimizer/repairer based on the scan-and-fix principle. To find out whether or not Restoro is legitimate, please read on. Back in September 2016, we published a similar article: Is Reimage Repair Legitimate. I believe it has since been proven beyond …
If you ever wanted to know how to save a Google WebP image file as a JPEG then this is the video for you. This is a great trick to know if you ever bump into this type of file on Google. WebP is an …
The past week or so, Facebook on my system was really lagging and slow to respond. I cleared out the cache, thinking it might help but didn’t. After a few minutes on Facebook, the page becomes more and more unusable. Response times are slowed down. …
With the widespread use of cell phones today everyone who comes to visit wants access to your WiFi. Not wanting to give out my WiFi key to the world, I used to set up a second router in my house and give out its credentials. …
FreeConvert.com A while back, I wanted to convert a couple of video files from the AVI format to MP4. Windows chokes on AVI files and you need a third-party program like VideoLAN (VLC) to play them. This is one of the rare times that I …
The last week or so, when I opened up Opera, I would get a security warning concerning a website it blocked named laqur.check-stat.com. I checked online but couldn’t find out much about the site. I went to the Opera forum to see what other info …
I often cringe at the incorrect spelling and grammar I come across regularly in posts and comments across forums and social media. I’m not sure if this has eventuated because of the abbreviated language often used in messages these days or because of poor schooling. …
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