My main burning software currently is BurnAware Free. Warning: At the end of the setup it offers to install WinZip and 360 Total Security. Just click on Decline, or you can accept. The interface is pretty straightforward. You make an Audio CD and an MP3 […]
Write Caching Windows versions since way back when have offered a feature known as Write Caching. What this does, if enabled, is send disk write-requests to computer memory (RAM) instead of directly to the much slower hard disk drive (HDD). This frees up applications from
What would you look like as a zombie? Go to Make Me Zombie to find out. You’ll need a clear photo of your face in a JPG, PNG, or GIF format. A minimum background also helps. Go to their website and click on the big
Apparently, one of the world’s leading health issues is a lack of sleep. One of the causes is all our tech– especially bright monitors and other screens before you go to sleep. The problem seems to be the blue light coming from these devices. The
Word includes a tool that will allow you to quickly and easily set up labels. If you are using labels that have more vertical space than is required for the information you are printing, you may want to vertically center your text within the label.
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YouTube is a great place to find How-To videos, funny kid videos and much more (don’t even talk to me about the song Baby Shark!). Some of us have tried our hand at running our own YouTube Channel– even I have dabbled in it and
Do you remember ever watching a TV show or movie and a character gets hurt and his only concern is getting his Internet history erased? Are you one of these people? The best way to get rid of a browser’s history is not to save
We all know that you can easily change the desktop icon size in Windows by holding down the CTRL key and rolling your mouse wheel. This is a down-and-dirty way to re-size your icons but the spacing remains the same. This week’s Quick Tips article
PWNED – PassWord owNED Yet another security breach in the news. Want to find out if any of your email accounts have been breached? Just go to Have I Been PWNED. Type in your email address and click on the pwned? button at the end.
YouTube Video Quality Can Be Disappointing I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2007 and whilst it’s true that any video uploaded will only be as good as the original source, with the advance of technology in the last twelve years everything has changed. In
The Password Quandary Passwords have been around seemingly forever. Try as we may, there seems to be no way to remember them all so we do things like use the same one everywhere. That is easy to remember but makes us vulnerable on many levels.
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Dropbox is a good way to upload your data to a safe cloud. If you download the Dropbox Application to your computer it will even synchronize data in your Dropbox folder to your Dropbox cloud. I use it for saving data, but not for keeping
