I’m not really a gamer but I enjoy playing a few classic games now and then, but many of the older DOS-based games don’t work on modern-day systems. That’s where DOSBox comes in. I’m going to attempt to play the first game I ever […]
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I don’t know about you, but I am usually as busy as a one-armed paper hanger with the itch at the office. That being said, I absolutely avail myself of all the quick shortcuts I can to save time and keystrokes. I really like to
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I had a PowerPoint file that contained over 200 images and I needed the images for another project. I could have right-clicked each picture and downloaded them one at a time, but I thought there should be a better way. Then I remembered that the
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I’ve been networking since the Windows 98 days. At first, it was just a direct cable connection from a computer-to-computer using a crossover cable. Then I bought a hub, or so I thought. One day, I took a closer look at the name and the
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More Competition Means More Value It’s no secret that Valve’s Steam has dominated the digital games market in the last few years, both with their store and gaming platform. Steam pretty much became the de facto gaming standard, having revolutionised the way we buy games,
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Winners Announced! [message type=”info”] This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by eMail Yury Kuzmin Mark Dickinson Larry Rolfe Alan Mew Randy Alain Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! [/message] Ashampoo has kindly offered us five licenses
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I’m betting that all of us have downloaded something from the internet before– a game, software, image or even video. Did you know that your browser saves those downloads in a separate History? Yep, there is a download history page that you might want to
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I have been teaching word processing for decades. WordPerfect was what I used and taught for years. Then the college I taught at entered into an agreement with Microsoft and I learned Word and the rest of the Office suite. Now, most of my work
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I decided to watch some videos only to end up with no video and a black screen in VLC, but the sound was working. The videos worked in other media players. After trying various solutions online, I found one that works. Fixing The Black Screen
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Last month I wrote about creating a shortcut to websites so one can go directly to the site from the desktop. Some of those shortcuts have icons with images and others are just plain squares. Then we saw how to assign an icon image from
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Grammar is not one of my strong points. There are just some things that won’t click in my mind. So if you’re like me, you probably need some online support. I have a couple of suggestions: Grammarly This is the most popular. They have extensions
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I downloaded an ISO image and I am going to use BurnAware Premium to burn it to a CD. It’s only 140 MB in size. The same option is available in BurnAware Free. Open BurnAware and click on the Burn ISO button. In the window
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Wearables. It’s a funny word. A word that somehow slipped into the conversation of mainstream tech. It sounds like a term I would have thought into existence as an eight-year-old. While a silly name accompanies this growing sector of the tech industry, the products and
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