The number of streaming TV shows and movie services has increased to the point where viewers are now spoilt for choice. However, this rapid increase in numbers has also caused fragmentation of licensing rights to the point where it’s difficult to know what is streaming […]
If you’ve been following the on-off saga of Elon Musk and Twitter, you’ll know that it’s been a torturous few months for social media watchers who today are either crying in their beers or popping corks. The richest man in the world is said to
Every cloud has a silver lining and that is very true of the pandemic that we all endured for two years from the beginning of 2020. That event produced social knock-on effects that will likely remain with us forever. I’m referring to the dreaded bureaucracy
When the micro-sd card in my Android phone failed, the phone suddenly no longer recognized that I had an SD card installed. The accumulated images, music, and videos from the past few years were no longer available. For this Google account, I had checked all
Seems to me that big tech – and we’re talking Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc, – are out of control and treating users with disdain. Whatever happened to customer support and why is there no longer any human contact with these major online presences? Microsoft: Microsoft’s
It All Started With Netflix It’s hard to believe that we’ve been subscribing to Netflix since 2012 and I distinctly remember my wife’s son suggesting that we give it a try, at which I was a tad sceptical. Up until then, we had been watching
My family memories website is up and running and like all things tech, it’s been a learning curve, an enjoyable one. For a start, I use features of WordPress that I don’t use here on DCT, such as inserting galleries of pictures which can be
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I first started playing around with building a family website back in 2000 using Microsoft Front Page and the result, although not stellar, was a small site with photos and stories of my family. Today, building a website of any description is light years ahead
Some of you might not realize that Daves Computer Tips has been publishing articles for more than a decade and we currently have 5000+ articles in our archive, the majority of which are tips, guides, and reviews. No matter what you are looking for, there’s
I am a wallpaper nut and, over the years, have accumulated a large collection of beautiful wallpaper backgrounds. We’ve published quite a few articles previously covering multiple websites that offer free hi-res wallpaper to download and here is another site I came across recently called
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Some time back, in mid-2020, I wrote an article criticizing the sensationalism and fabricated controversy being employed by tech site journalists in an effort to attract more clicks. Sacrificing honesty and integrity for the almighty dollar. Tech Site Journalism Reaches All-Time Low I’m unhappy to
Here then are three nice sites offering free online services that you might find useful. Between them, they provide a nice range of free PDF tools and image compression services. Smallpdf Free Online PDF Tools PDF (Portable Document Format) is the ubiquitous document format utilized
Here’s a scenario that seems to come up a lot… Your friends are getting friend requests from you even though they are already on your friend’s list. The good news here is that you are not hacked. The bad news, someone pretends to be you
I first highlighted this outrageous situation on 24th November 2021 in Facebook Bans Links To Dave’s Computer Tips and nearly two months later the censor hammer is still in place. Collectively we writers at DCT have submitted tickets to Facebook’s so-called help desk on numerous
