Sometimes when I want to back up folders, I just right-click on them and click on Send To in the menu and pick my drive. This usually works for all removable drives but I noticed it doesn’t list any local drives. So I set about […]
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Are Smartphones Really Smart? Perhaps smartphones should be renamed dumbphones due to the dumbing-down of social interaction between humans today. Like any device, a cellphone is a tool like a TV or a PC –they have their places in our lives– but the ubiquitous mobile
At work this past week I had a co-worker ask how they could delete/remove an email address from the Office 365 Web App. They wanted to remove the address from the auto-fill part of the email. She was asking because someone on the list changed their email address and the
Welcome back. If you’ve read my previous article on the possible tech solutions to some of the bigger problems of air travel, well let’s pick right back up where we left off. Sure, it’s a big, bold and possibly unachievable task to try to curb
It’s been a while since we looked at the market share statistics for desktop browsers and operating systems. As always, I am quoting the statistics from the *trusted NetMarketShare, and they make for some interesting reading. *NetMarketShare counts unique visits only whereas StatCounter counts all
If you have multiple computers and not enough monitors or enough monitors but not enough space to set everything up, then there is good news. It’s possible to share a monitor. There are various ways: KVM Switch A KVM Switch or Keyboard Video Mouse switch
As I am sure you know by now, the table options in Word are plentiful and very flexible by default. You know how it is, you create a table and every single time you spend time modifying the properties. If it seems you use the
Basic Computing 5 – Creating Desktop Shortcuts I have one particular client who, if he doesn’t have a shortcut on his desktop to a particular program or folder, is completely lost. I have shown him multiple times how to create these shortcuts, he’s even written
Change Is Usually Good Most of us have been using the WordPress Classic Editor for years because it’s simply a WYSIWYG page editor which is very easy to use. However, the Classic Editor has always had its drawbacks, principally with regard to the layout of
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
