If I’m honest I probably don’t watch any more TV than I did before the quarantine was imposed on 20th March, probably because I work from home anyway and my routine, unlike for others, has not been greatly affected. When I’ve finished a day’s run of motorcycle courier work I’m generally pretty whacked, so I […]
My uncle got in touch with me awhile ago. He had put ink into his printer but it wouldn’t work. In his case, he forgot to take off the protective plastic strips from the ink cartridge. But someone suggested to him that he needed his printer Lined Up. I assumed he was talking about alignment. […]
I was trying to use my scanner on my Canon PIXMA MX492 when I got an error message saying that my scanner software Cannot communicate with the scanner. I usually go to Start – Canon Utilities – IJ Scan Utility. This opens the little scanning options window but no matter what I tried to get […]
I am seeing more seniors getting computers and moving from flip phones to smartphones. They realize they need to embrace the new technology or they will fall way behind. And many new computer users feel as if they need to have some special skill to use their computer. There is no need for them to […]
Many years ago I worked for a bank and the calculators were mechanical and huge. There was no such thing as electronic ones. They had many buttons and a roll of tape that recorded every calculation. We would use them to balance the ledgers for each account. Wang came out with ones that sat on […]
The coronavirus outbreak is causing electronics manufacturers major pain and delays, as suppliers based in China are struggling to keep factories running at full speed The coronavirus pandemic is causing worldwide havoc in every conceivable way, from stock markets plummeting to industries and economies suffering. Here in Australia, the Government has just announced that large […]
When we get a new computer we think about what to do with the old one. In my county here in Florida, we have a club dedicated to refurbishing discarded computers for school children and veterans. We see on these crime shows how forensic experts can look at hard drives and recover deleted files. So […]
Windows 10 makes it easy enough to reset your network if you are having connection issues. Just type Network reset in the search bar and click on it when it appears on the menu. In the window that opens, click on the Reset now button. Then there was a message about the system shutting down […]
I thought I’d share details of my home workstation and workbench with you good folk. I call it ”workstation” and ”workbench” just to sound fancy. In reality, it is just a section of my dingy old garage. No mod cons here. Here is my workstation where I sit and type articles such as this one: […]
If you have multiple computers and not enough monitors or enough monitors but not enough space to set everything up, then there is good news. It’s possible to share a monitor. There are various ways: KVM Switch A KVM Switch or Keyboard Video Mouse switch allows you to hook up more than one computer to […]
Change Is Usually Good Most of us have been using the WordPress Classic Editor for years because it’s simply a WYSIWYG page editor which is very easy to use. However, the Classic Editor has always had its drawbacks, principally with regard to the layout of text and images, so in 2018 WordPress version 5.0 came […]
Tesla, have you ever heard of him? Nikola Tesla, the inventor who brought us the alternating current (AC), wireless lighting and of course the Tesla coil. He also happens to be the namesake to a much more recent re-invention– Tesla electric cars. They’ve taken a century-old idea of the electric automobile and managed to turn […]