Standard Television Warranties With big-screen smart TVs now all the go, I am amazed that the major television manufacturers — Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sony — are still getting away with providing just 12 months warranty. It is incongruous to me that a TV costing hundreds, […]
In the US, contrary to popular belief, there is no guarantee of privacy. Nowhere in the constitution is it mentioned. There are vague forms of it in some amendments, but it is never directly addressed. Do not be afraid– this is not a political diatribe.
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
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I was sitting here messing around on my social Apps and noticed that I never really Direct Message (DM) anyone on them. Yes, once in a great while I will DM someone on Facebook but not very often on Instagram and almost never on the
Choosing my favourite games of the last 20 years isn’t difficult and it’s certainly not as subjective as The Top Ten Best Games Of All Time, because fortunately, we all have different tastes. Putting lists together of the best this and the best that always
*Applies to new Chromium Edge only As you may be aware, the new Edge is very similar to Google’s Chrome browser in that both are built on the Chromium platform with Blink as the default rendering engine. This change has improved Edge no end and
Some of us might not like our phone automatically setting the date and time for us. The system uses this for time stamping your text messages and many other functions that require the time and date. The reason this came up is my work schedule. I like to
Creating a hyperlink to a document in a shared location (i.e., network drive, Sharepoint library) can be a very effective way to email a document to one of your colleagues. A hyperlink, unlike an attachment, will not create a copy of the file, take up
Glary is easy to use and with one click you can clean out the junk. If you want more tools, they are available. This article covers the basics. I will not drill down into all the features of this program. However, as you move through
Crooks are constantly dreaming up new ways to use and conceal stolen credit card data. According to the U.S. Secret Service, the latest scheme involves stolen card information embedded in barcodes affixed to phony money network rewards cards. The scammers then pay for merchandise by
Sharing A Keyboard And Mouse With Multiple Computers I recently wrote about sharing monitors, but it is possible to just share a mouse and keyboard. I used a program a long time ago called Mouse Without Borders. You must download and install it on all
Basic Computing 6 – Cut, Copy, and Paste It’s surprising how many users do not know how to use Cut, Copy, and Paste. Yet, of all the basic processes in Windows, Cut, Copy, and Paste are probably the most useful and important to understand and
