YouTube is a great place to find How-To videos, funny kid videos and much more (don’t even talk to me about the song Baby Shark!). Some of us have tried our hand at running our own YouTube Channel– even I have dabbled in it and I’m in the works on another. If you haven’t noticed, […]
Do you remember ever watching a TV show or movie and a character gets hurt and his only concern is getting his Internet history erased? Are you one of these people? The best way to get rid of a browser’s history is not to save it at all. Most browsers have a Private Window that […]
If you are unfamiliar with the Nielsen Rating System, I am happy to explain, or may I say, let Wikipedia explain: Nielsen Ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States using a rating system. Nielsen Media […]
Data Usage History Windows has always stored information about nearly everything that happens on your system and your usage of the internet is no different. Sometimes it can be a handy thing to know which programs and utilities are eating up your precious bandwidth and this week’s Quick Tips article will show you how. History […]
When Criminals Take Over Your PC A couple of days before New Year’s Eve, I received a very anxious phone call from a customer saying that he could no longer open any of his files. Windows 10 had suddenly changed and he could no longer turn off the machine. I then asked what was currently […]
If you want to download videos and are concerned about the software and what is bundled in it, here’s a more secure way to do it. One commenter in a previous article suggested using Avast Secure Browser, so I decided to try it out. Avast Secure Browser is basically a Chrome clone with a bunch of […]
I like to save copies of my uploads to Daves Computer Tips. Originally I used the MHTML format to save the documents. This allowed me to save the document as one file compared to saving it as a complete web page. But this format seems to be falling out of favour. I tried printing to […]
GoDaddy JavaScript Injection Slows Down Your Website I have three websites hosted at GoDaddy and recently I noticed a marked slowdown when loading all three of them, so I ran some speed tests through GTmetrix and Google Page Speed Insights. Both came back with slower than expected results which was particularly surprising for my new […]
Every now and then I want to print some information I found online or if I made a purchase on eBay, I like to print up a copy of the order. These printed copies usually end up in binders so I like to have at least a one-inch border on the left-hand side of the […]
Using Cortana With Other Browsers As I mentioned in an earlier article, I momentarily lost access to my Edge Browser. One of the reasons I lean on Edge is its integration with Cortana, Microsoft’s virtual assistant. Many of us already use Cortana as the default search feature in Windows 10. In that function, it will […]
Your Browser’s Ability To Protect You Against Phishing, Socially Engineered Malware (SEM) We have talked about Browser and Web security several times on this site, but it is important to remember that the bad guys do not sit still. They are very aggressive in their attempts to invade your privacy and security. In a recent […]
Having read fellow author Richard Pedersen‘s excellent article, laying bare the details of his system, my interest was piqued and I couldn’t resist the chance to show off my systems. What I Use I run two main computers which are predominantly gaming machines and I also use them for the more day-to-day things in life such […]