YouTube has declared war on downloading videos from its site. Most downloading programs and extensions no longer work but you can still use VLC. You’ll need to enable the Advanced controls in the View menu then choose Advanced Controls to see the Record button. Open […]
Last week I posted a Quick Tips article about Microsoft’s current marked propensity for sending us buggy updates. It includes a video by a former Microsoft employee explaining how all this shoddy business came to pass. Here it is for those of you who are
We saw how to create an icon for a single web page in my Elderly Computing article. Sometimes the icon that is created is an empty square– no picture. Let’s take a look at changing the icon to something else. Open your browser and locate
PC enthusiasts will argue about this question until the cows come home. Or similarly, if you put six doctors in a room and ask for a diagnosis, you may get six different opinions which, by the way, is pretty much the best way to start
WinX DVD Ripper And WinX HD Video Converter Digiarty is promoting a giveaway through the end of October for two products: WinX DVD Ripper and WinX HD Video Converter. The WinX HD Video Converter giveaway begins on October 11th while the WinX DVD Ripper giveaway
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Have you ever wanted to know how to change the download folder your browser uses? I know I have, and recently someone asked me where the downloads go (this is very common in my line of work). At my day job, I help customers with
When thinking of an article to write for the week I go through a brainstorming process that resembles a category 5 hurricane. It’s a whirlwind of ideas smashing against one another, a rapid stream of thought going 180 miles an hour and in the end,
It is easy to change the return address in Word although it is not always very intuitive to figure out where to go to do this. Changing The Return Address Follow the steps below to learn how: Click File | Options | Advanced. Scroll to
If you’ve been fooling around with networking at all, you probably came across this issue more than once. You try to access a computer on your network and get a network error: Windows cannot access \\ (your computer). Search online and you’ll find 101 solutions
Windows 10 updates are bug-ridden these days. That has become the natural state of things and we have all settled into the “it is what it is” mentality accepting whatever may befall us. There was a time, some of you might remember, when this wasn’t
Charting data entered into an Excel spreadsheet does not have to be a complicated procedure. This article shows you step-by-step how to make that happen. First, we will create a simple worksheet and add some random data. Then we will create a quick chart of
Columns of names in a spreadsheet are often entered as full names (first and last). This works great for mailing labels where the complete name is used. It is not convenient when only the first or last name is needed, like when you need to
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