It’s pretty well accepted that Microsoft isn’t very good at naming things. At the very least, the names they come up with are misleading at best and downright deceptive at worst. Take the name ”suggestions”, for example. Read ”Suggestions” as ”annoying ads”. As I’ve said […]
The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. DOJ officials said the
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Tweaking Your Site With Additional CSS As I mentioned in my previous article, How To Become A Webmaster, additional CSS can be added in WordPress to override settings that are coded in the theme that you’re using. As I’ve discovered over the last year or
In all operating systems prior to Windows 8, Microsoft embedded the product key in the Registry, which made it pretty simple for dedicated key finder software to identify and extract product key details. From Windows 8 and upward, however, Microsoft changed the system and, instead
Just a quick one. Every time I log in to PayPal I get taken to the page asking me to add a mobile phone number. The problem is I don’t have a mobile device. Problem number two is there are no links on this page
Ever need to know how much space you have left on your hard drive, or a flash drive, or an external drive, or an SD card? Win+E to open File Explorer On the left, locate This PC to see the drives on the PC. Quick
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A couple of weeks ago at my day job my co-worker was working on a newsletter and needed to get an image off a website. She needed to save them to her computer as a JPEG file. This should have been a very simple task for
Using Outlook 365 to automate repetitive tasks (i.e., inviting a group of people to meetings or forwarding emails to a group). Also, you can automate sequences to perform functions such as deleting messages or moving them. Quick Steps apply multiple actions at the same time
I have a bunch of old IDE hard drives. I needed a good adapter to hook them up to my computer so I ordered a new one on eBay. I found this one: IDE SATA to USB 3.0 SATA 3 Cable Adapter Converter for 2.5″
If you find the need for a list in your document, Word will very quickly and easily accommodate you. Follow the steps below to learn how: Key in your list, only pressing Enter at the end of each item on your list. Select all the
Basic Computing 4 – Backing Up Personal Data A Backup of personal data (pictures, documents, videos, music, etc.) is simply a second copy stored on *external media (preferably USB external hard drive). Think of it this way– you have a hard copy of an extremely
Ya gotta love Big Tech’s naming conventions. Tailored Experiences– really?! I’m sure the reasoning behind these clever phrases is to obfuscate their true purpose. ”Tailored Experiences” really means ”We want to track your interests, what you shop for, the videos you like, your tastes in
