Digiarty, a long-time friend to DCT, is running two giveaway contests. By entering each of these you have a chance to win either WinX HD Video Converter and/or WinX DVD Ripper plus some other prizes, too. Here’s a short run-down of each of these programs […]
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I never gave it much thought but there is a difference between the Start Screen and the Start Menu. On Windows 8 we were given a Start Screen. To get to the desktop we had to take another step. Navigating the Start Screen was a
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Having read Terry Hollet’s article How To Use EasyCAP TV Capture – Windows 10 the other day, I was prompted to resurrect my own VHS to digital setup to see if I could improve my rather lacklustre attempt. I had previously been running with Windows
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It’s over a year since I abandoned the shop and moved lock, stock and barrel into my alternative workshop and I’m pleased to report that the move has had very little negative impact on my work. If anything, my customers have been very supportive, even
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I know I am dating myself but I programmed computers a while back that used 8-inch floppy disks. They were called floppy because when you held one side they would actually bend. The most common size held 80 KB of data. That does not seem
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I was working on someone’s Windows 10 laptop that kept going to a BSOD Critical Process Died. I couldn’t get into Safe Mode and the Reset options wouldn’t work. All the built-in options from Windows: Startup repair, SFC, DISM, system restore, and chkdsk– none worked.
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Will Star Citizen Ever Be Finished? Star Citizen is the brainchild of Chris Roberts, the British head of Cloud Imperium Games, who began development on the game in 2011. Since then, the game has been crowdfunded to the tune of more than $250 million, the
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How To Convert Videos There are many reasons why you may want to convert videos, the primary being the platform the video is destined for and the format the video was recorded as in the first place. In my case, I record a lot of
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I’ve had to use my computer a few times in the past without a mouse. Did you know you can use your keypad as a mouse? I didn’t know if these options still existed in Windows 10 or not but apparently, they do. If your
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A woman called me because after a Windows 10 update her screen went, as she put it, black with yellow letters– she could still use it but didn’t like it. So, after digging around in the settings a little bit I found out what happened.
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