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Streaming Video Services Colluding?
I suspect many of you would be subscribing to multiple video streaming services. I currently subscribe to four services. Currently, one of my pet peeves is when I come across a movie or TV series that sounds like it could be worth a view and
Google & Microsoft At It Again!
Google messing with YouTube Shorts without permission! Microsoft introduces AI for Excel with a warning not to use it! We recently published an article detailing Google’s undue influence on the World Wide Web. Now, Google has been caught messing with YouTube Video Shorts. Several leading
Giveaways & Contests Reminder (Week 3525)
Check out our DCT Forum. There, you can get answers to your computer questions, or just hang out and chat with other Forum members. It will also allow you to help others, which is always a nice thing to do. Try it out! Dave’s Computer
How To Stop Phone From Watching You
If you were here last week, we discussed how to enable certain settings on the Chrome app. You can find out about that article here: How To Activate Essential Chrome Mobile Settings I wanted to keep on the subject of keeping you safe on your
VLC On AndroidTV Not Seeing All Shared Media
I have a bunch of videos on my computer that I can stream through my Android TV cable box to watch on my TV. Everything was working fine until one day I noticed that VLC wasn’t displaying all the videos in my shared media folder
AI In Search Results Killing Off Smaller Sites
In the face of mounting criticism, Google recently stated that the AI summaries included in search results do not harm websites and claimed they actually do quite the opposite, albeit minus any facts or figures to back that up. Google uses AI to scrape the
How To Change Highlight Color In Word 365
Have you ever highlighted different things in a very long document, and then when your superior looks at it, they ask you to change the colors? And oh, by the way, we want that done immediately because we have to send it out to other
Could The UK Ban VPNs?
As I’ve mentioned already in other articles, the UK Online Safety Act (OSA) now requires UK visitors to certain websites, such as Reddit, Spotify, and Wikipedia, to verify their age with a selfie or other means of ID. It’s worth noting here that national ID
How I Revived A Fifteen Year Old Gaming Laptop
A couple of weeks ago, a client phoned asking me to take a look at some laptops so that she could decide which ones to keep and which to give away to people in need. I had known the lady for some years, long before
Giveaways & Contests Reminder (Week 3425)
Check out our DCT Forum. There, you can get answers to your computer questions, or just hang out and chat with other Forum members. It will also allow you to help others, which is always a nice thing to do. Try it out! Dave’s Computer
Audials Vision 2025 Overview & Giveaway
Audials Vision 2025 Winners Announced! This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by email. Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! Audials has kindly offered five licenses to our DCT readers for a chance to win one of their
How To Activate Essential Chrome Mobile Settings
Last week, we talked about how to turn off tracking on Instagram. If you missed that one, here it is: How To Turn Off Map Location Instagram This week, I wanted to continue to keep you informed on those mobile devices. What am I talking
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Best Free Partition Manager – 2025
Most of you are likely aware that Windows’ built-in Disk Management capabilities are very limited, hence the need for more advanced partition manager software. All of the free software listed here includes all the options you’d expect for managing partitions, so I’m going to concentrate