If you are on Twitter or even receiving email you might have noticed Bitly (URL) Links. Jason, “What is a Bitly Link?” Great question! Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. ~ Wikipedia Basically, with Bitly you can take a long […]
I am loving Office 365! There are so many new innovations that you can make use of that will save you time and keystrokes. I just love using it. Below is but one of the new time savers that I highly recommend. Dictating In Word
A woman called me because she couldn’t sign out of Facebook. When she clicked on the down-arrow to get to the Log Out option, she would immediately get taken to the settings page instead. I tried it on mine to see if it was a
Steam Discounts Up To 80% The Steam Summer sale has kicked off with some incredible discounts on your favourite games and software until July 9th. Here are some great examples that I’ve hand-picked. Software Action! is one of the best screen capture programs currently available
Many new and exciting features were added when Windows XP was envisioned and Prefetch was one of them. There were no Solid State Drives (SSDs) available at the time and we were all stuck with relatively slow Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), aka, spinners. The differences
I know I am dating myself but I programmed computers a while back that used 8-inch floppy disks. They were called floppy because when you held one side they would actually bend. The most common size held 80 KB of data. That does not seem
What Is IPTV? Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The strict definitions are: IPTV: Television from providers like Prism TV, delivered over the Internet via a privately-managed network OTT Streaming: Television from third-party services like Netflix and
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We all like to search on Amazon throughout the day for items, looking for that gift for a friend or yourself. All of us are guilty of this, even me. You might have even saved some of these items to your Wish List hoping that
For reasons beyond my understanding, I decided out of the blue to update my VLC media player. So across the top menu, I clicked on Help then Check For Updates… I had version 3.0.6 and version 3.0.7 was available so I accepted the prompts to
You can now use your finger or a digital pen when you are working on a touch device. In addition to drawing, writing and highlighting, Ink Editor will let you use natural gestures like circling to select and crossing out to delete, adding a new
Vacation time is filled with many great trips. We are on vacation as I write this. There are plenty of opportunities to take pictures so we can view them later and bring to remembrance the good times we had. Many of my pictures are uploaded
Computer jargon, as in any field of study, is complicated by the fact that some “things” can go by many names. Today’s discussion about DPI settings is no different. Dots Per Inch (DPI) refers to how many “dots” there are per inch on your monitor.
Google Stadia To Launch In November What is Stadia? That’s a good question. From what I can gather, Google Stadia is a revolutionary new subscription gaming platform, which allows you to play games through the cloud. In simple terms, Google Stadia lets you play modern
