We recently had a storm here and lightning caused a power outage. A friend of mine had her computer burned out and her internet modem. I can’t fix the modem but the computer, I’m hoping, was just the motor gone. I did have an old power supply laying around. Just for the record, this was […]
Twitch Is Creating Gaming Millionaires Video streaming star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has been snatched away from Twitch by Microsoft’s Mixer platform for an undisclosed sum of money. Video game streaming is now enormously popular with the figures speaking for themselves. In “Ninja’s” case, here are the numbers: 14.7 million followers on Twitch 1 million followers […]
I remember telling my college students that when they could not figure something out in less than thirty minutes and were stuck, to seek help. First I would have them explain their problem to someone who knew nothing about it. Perhaps even their mother. As they would walk through the explanation they often found their […]
FaceApp Under Scrutiny Due To Russian Connection The enormously popular App that allows you to change a person to an octogenarian or a sexy looking teen is under scrutiny for privacy concerns. When you install the App on your smartphone, the first thing you see is a request to access all your photos. Most […]
Vacation time is filled with many great trips. We are on vacation as I write this. There are plenty of opportunities to take pictures so we can view them later and bring to remembrance the good times we had. Many of my pictures are uploaded to Facebook so family and friends can see what is […]
A number of people asked about creating DVDs so here’s a simple program and the basic instructions on how to use it. First, download and install DVDStyler. When you first open the program you’ll get the New project window. The only options you might want to check are the Video Format (check NTSC 720×480) and […]
In How To Self-Publish Your Book – Part Three, we concluded with my book being published on Amazon/KDP, but that isn’t the end of the story, because an eBook can be published in numerous outlets by the very nature of its low overhead. I discovered this by lurking around numerous book writing forums and I […]
If you are like me, you have been using Amazon for a very long time. With that being said, I have purchased many tablets over the years for myself but mainly for my kids and all those devices are registered at my Amazon account. After a while, you will notice that there are many devices […]
In this, the third part of my self-publishing series, I’ll be covering the final steps in publishing the book and, as a reminder, here are the main bullet points: Finalise the back cover blurb (synopsis) Upload the final book cover Devise a marketing strategy prior to publication Use the new book cover as a marketing […]
YouTube Video Quality Can Be Disappointing I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2007 and whilst it’s true that any video uploaded will only be as good as the original source, with the advance of technology in the last twelve years everything has changed. In other words, you would expect games and home movies recorded […]
Polishing Your Manuscript Probably the most time-consuming and repetitive aspect of writing a book is the editing. It’s almost endless and the image above needs to have the caption multiplied by at least ten, if not more. However, it’s not a fruitless exercise by a long shot and I regard editing akin to placing the […]
It’s said that we all have a book inside us waiting to come out and whilst this may be true, the path to publishing that book can be long and torturous– until now. The Internet has changed everything and publishing a book today is a somewhat more democratic process, shall we say. I’ve recently completed […]