A couple of weeks ago I wrote the article, How To turn off Facebook Activity Tracking (make sure to check it out). This was such a hit that I figured it would be smart to continue helping you all with turning off tracking on other devices you own. […]
If you’re a fan of classic movies, then Open Culture is the site for you. They host an impressive list of links to comedies, dramas, Hitchcock, noir, horror, thriller, martial arts, westerns, documentaries, silent, and animated films. So go to their site, scroll down through
Say you have a large Excel Worksheet and you need to be able to quickly access rows that are buried way down. Fortunately, there is a built-in method to accomplish this task. Follow the steps below to learn how: Press F5 which will display the
Back in February, we reported that Edge was edging closer to Firefox in the desktop browser market share with numbers for January showing Edge at just a single percentage point behind Firefox. I said in that article… ”I don’t believe it will be too long
A woman brought me her new laptop because her browser, Microsoft Edge, was being blocked with a message claiming her system was infected and to call 1-800-XXX-XXXX. It’s just a scam. I’m surprised that this thing is still around. I used a small program called
Typing a document is the easy part. Formatting a document for easy reading and printing takes a little more effort. This paper will look at the left, center, right, and full justify. Also, automatic hyphenation and using a non-breaking space. Let’s use the random function
Antivirus products are, in my opinion, a lot like insurance– a necessary evil. These days, I tend to rely mostly on the built-in Microsoft Defender which does a good enough job for me and, as the latest results from AV-Test illustrate, will also do a
Winners Announced! ASCOMP Secure Eraser Pro ASCOMP has generously offered five (5) licenses for their Secure Eraser Pro software to five lucky Dave’s Computer Tips (DCT) readers. Each license is currently valued at $29.90 (US). There is a free version available for personal use only,
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At my work, I acquire new eBook titles for our website. When doing this, we receive the eBooks in three formats: Epub, Mobi (Kindle), and PDF. The PDF format can sometimes be a very large file. This has to do with either the company I’m getting
A lot of folks are afraid of fields and would rather use old methods of doing things instead of familiarizing themselves with the lovely Fields in Word. I love fields and now I am going to spread the love so that you, dear readers, will
Warning, proceed with caution. The website in question might be compromised by a hacker. A woman called me and wanted me to print up a few sewing patterns for her. But when I tried to get to the website, I got a warning message that
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Almost every time Microsoft releases updates for Windows 10 we read about more issues caused by these updates. Indeed, one well-known site pretty much makes a living out of reporting all these problems with Windows Updates. I have often gone to bat for the users
I use the Thunderbird email program and this morning I noticed two unusual marks in my newsfeed accounts. In front of the account name was a pink triangle with an exclamation point inside it. I right-clicked on one account listed and I noticed on the
