articles about new and upcoming technology
YouTube Shorts are short videos under three minutes long. They must be in vertical format with a 9:16 aspect ratio. I first avoided playing them because I didn’t know how to stop them without exiting YouTube altogether. After a little button pushing on the remote, I […]
The Drift Ghost XL Pro is a replacement action camera for my GoPro Hero 5, which I sold some time ago due to its poor battery life of less than an hour. Before buying the XL Pro, I researched action cams extensively and ended
Everything seems to be getting more and more expensive these days, and that applies to PCs as well. Some time back, I took the plunge and bought a refurbished desktop PC to replace my aging secondary machine, but not before I’d well and truly done
Watching movies copied to a flash drive on my TiVo cable box. This project originally started differently. I connected my Android cable box to my computer. I wondered if I could access any of the files on it, especially the recordings. The first problem I
Quick Method To Improve Your Cellular Coverage In the past, I have heard many of my clients complain about spotty cell phone performance to the point where the phone won’t even ring, and the call might automatically go to voicemail. For many of my readers,
I’m thinking of turning my old Acer desktop into a media server. I have a few DVDs that I would like to rip to obtain a digital copy. I wrote before about this using “WinX DVD Ripper”. Read here: How To RIP DVD With WinX
I know, I know, it’s a phone and a pretty snazzy one at that! But there are lots and lots of other things that your iPhone can do other than allow you to make and receive phone calls. It really is amazing. Well, at least
For years now, I’ve always kept two or three air duster cans of compressed air in stock for cleaning up clients’ machines as well as my own. Maybe I’m late to the party, but a few months ago I came across these rechargeable electronic air
I wrote about this before, but using a lower quality video capture device called “Easycap”. Read here: How To Record From Cable To Computer Using OBS Studio I recently bought an HD Video Capture USB device called a “Guermok Video Capture Card” from Amazon. They
I don’t know about you, but I learn something about my phone almost every day, and that is generally a good thing! I sure know that my daughter and her husband are glad I am not asking them how to do everything all the time.
Windows Is Deprecating Microsoft Publisher The decision to deprecate certain Windows apps has sparked various opinions within the tech community. While some users might feel inconvenienced by these changes, compelling reasons exist to support this strategy as a positive step towards innovation and efficiency. Recently,
No Physical Repair, No Problem Undoubtedly, AI has been an exciting, if intimidating, area in most areas of previously “human-only” domains. One of these is computer repair. Here are a few ways AI is being integrated. While not applicable for physical repairs, their services include:
Advancements in technology have changed many aspects of our lives, and arguably none more so than with communications. Telephone Communications: It amuses me no end that with modern smartphones perhaps the least used function these days is to actually call someone, with almost everything now
The Need For High Refresh Rate Monitors In the world of gaming, where every millisecond counts, the demand for high-refresh-rate monitors has surged exponentially. As technology continues to advance, these monitors are not only a luxury but a necessity for even casual gamers. The necessity
