I have a TV that makes a better monitor than my monitors. I could hook up the TV and computer at the same time but that means switching back and forth from one source to the next. I have like half a dozen monitors and, […]
EasyCAP I’ve been fooling around with TV capture devices on and off for years now. This allows you to hook up your cable/satellite to your computer. I’ve rediscovered this one recently called EasyCAP that I purchased a few years ago. I decided to hook it
How did all that junk get on my computer? That is a question many of us have and the more junk, the longer it takes to start up and to do something. So we run maintenance programs like CCleaner, Glary Utilities, Superantispyware, and Malwarebytes. They
Will Star Citizen Ever Be Finished? Star Citizen is the brainchild of Chris Roberts, the British head of Cloud Imperium Games, who began development on the game in 2011. Since then, the game has been crowdfunded to the tune of more than $250 million, the
How To Convert Videos There are many reasons why you may want to convert videos, the primary being the platform the video is destined for and the format the video was recorded as in the first place. In my case, I record a lot of
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In my article, How To Create A Passkey On Xbox One, I wrote about how to create a passkey for your Xbox One and about creating a password before someone purchases something on your Microsoft account. Since I have four kids, this was a must on
My Uncle called me because he said everything on his screen was gone all tiny. His cat had run across is keyboard and somehow managed to reduce or zoom out on his Chrome browser making everything look tiny. So here is how to Zoom In
Ever notice that long list running across your Home tab in Word? That, of course, is the Style Gallery and it is where all the Quick Styles (the most accessible Styles) are housed. Trust me, those are not the only styles that Word has. Believe
I went to The Weather Network website and clicked on a video and when I scrolled down the page a video popped out as a separate smaller version and continued playing. I had this happen before– it seems to be automatic on some sites. But
System Tray Clock Windows 95 was the last version of Windows to display the seconds in the System Tray clock. Microsoft’s reasoning when they removed this feature was, since system memory was limited at that time (measured in megabytes), that continually updating the seconds put
I’ve had to use my computer a few times in the past without a mouse. Did you know you can use your keypad as a mouse? I didn’t know if these options still existed in Windows 10 or not but apparently, they do. If your
How To Create A Subdomain Sometimes it’s useful to create a subdomain on your website for testing purposes and this is exactly what I needed to do recently for testing a new theme for my Compufix site. I was under the mistaken impression that this
A woman called me because after a Windows 10 update her screen went, as she put it, black with yellow letters– she could still use it but didn’t like it. So, after digging around in the settings a little bit I found out what happened.
