I spent a week or more trying to share a folder on my Linux laptop (Lubuntu) to my Windows network. I kind-of got it working, not the way I wanted, but good enough. So here are the steps I took to get as far as […]
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Are you the local go-to person for family and friends whenever they are experiencing problems with their computers? It may well be that you are not actually a computer whiz at all, the burden of being even a little bit tech-savvy is that you are
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Winners Announced! [message type=”info”] This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by eMail Leonard Steele Joel Markus Gavin Jordan Linda Coleman Serg Serg Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! [/message] Audials One 2020 Audials has once again kindly
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Since I’m new to Snapchat I’m always learning new things with the App. Recently, I was messaging my friend from TikTok and noticed my Profile Image was a cowboy. I know I must have picked this image, most likely by accident, but certainly didn’t remember
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Years ago, Norton Ghost was my imaging software until Windows 7 came along. The version I had was no longer compatible. That’s when I started using Macrium. I came across an old backup, a Norton Ghost image of a Windows XP system. I was going
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Once you have created your presentation and have saved it, you can also save it as a video to share with your colleagues. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click File | Export | Create a Video. Select a resolution for your video: Ultra
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Basic Computing 2 – Resizing and Moving Windows Many operations require having two or more folders open simultaneously, such as copying files from one folder to another for example. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to resize and move windows around the
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The promised PowerToys for Windows 10 is finally here! According to Chris Hoffman (Editor in Chief of How-To-Geek), ”The first preview release includes a Windows key shortcut overlay and a desktop window manager that will let you go beyond simple 2×2 snapping.” You can download
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A couple of days ago I noticed my internet connection was very slow. I thought it might be because of the winter storm that we just experienced that knocked out our power for over 12 hours. Then it took a few more hours for our
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Most computer users are used to having spell checking a normal part of most programs. Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Google Docs and even email all have a spell checker built-in. I don’t know about you, but that sure helps me. I remember my grade school
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It can, at times, be very difficult to get your head around Word’s page numbering options, particularly in a multiple-section document. Fortunately, controlling how your pages in each section are numbered is actually pretty easy. To quote Microsoft, a section is ”a portion of a
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Tesla, have you ever heard of him? Nikola Tesla, the inventor who brought us the alternating current (AC), wireless lighting and of course the Tesla coil. He also happens to be the namesake to a much more recent re-invention– Tesla electric cars. They’ve taken a
We all know how to search on the web by entering a word or even a sentence in a search engine. The results are amazingly quick and often the result has thousands and even millions of possible websites to view. The most relevant according to
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