It seems like yesterday I was learning DOS commands on my IBM clone PC. It was one I had built myself from parts. I had a case from one supplier and a power supply from another. Add a motherboard, disk drives, and various plugin cards, […]
I like to keep photos of my property in case it ever gets lost or stolen. I also create contact sheets where I put multiple images on a single page. You can do this manually but there is a quicker way using XnView. I’m just
The Inconsistency Of The Lockdown Call it what you will — lockdown, shelter in place, stay-at-home, quarantine — it is enforced to varying degrees around the world and I don’t think anyone needs a history lesson on why the lockdowns were implemented in the first
We recently published an article discussing how Q4OS Plasma edition could easily be installed inside Windows. At the end of that article, I promised to check out the Q4OS Trinity edition, a lightweight Debian-based Linux distro that resembles XP. So here it is. Q4OS Trinity
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People who know me, know I like to do projects with my brother. This time he is working on a Web series and asked for my help with editing and some other technical issues. With any project you are working on, you might have people all over
Signatures can be plain or fancy. Regardless of which yours will be, follow the steps below to learn how to create one. Before I start, it is important to note that if you have a Microsoft Office 365 account, and you use Outlook and Outlook
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
Wise Disk Cleaner works well to remove temporary and other unnecessary files, browser cache, and other things. I leave the defaults set as is. Care 365 is like the Disk Cleaner on steroids. It checks a lot more things. I leave the defaults as they
The simple answer to that question is “NO”. They may be using your data but only if you give them permission. I know that some readers have trouble accepting that as a fact and I truly understand your position. If you were to believe only
In 2007 Crytek released Crysis, one of the most influential games of all time, while setting the bar for luscious graphics and action-packed first-person shooters. The question, ”Yes, but can it run Crysis?”, has become a mantra in the gaming world and even today it
I have seen a few blue screens in the past few weeks. This used to be referred to as a BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death. That is all the computer would do. You turn it on and the screen is blue and nothing else
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In most cases, when installing Linux in a Windows environment, it is installed on completely separate partitions as a completely separate operating system. However, there is one Linux distro, called Q4OS, which can be installed inside Windows as an application– no separate partitions, just a
