The World is essentially divided into two distinct groups– those who love gadgets and those who don’t. I happen to fall squarely in the former group, if it plugs in or takes batteries, I definitely want one! It’s circa 1970 and a salesman knocks on […]
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Winners Announced! [message type=”info”] This contest has now expired. Winners will be notified by eMail. Jack Hale Yury Kuzmin Deb Rakshit Paul Schneider Robert Lloyd Congratulations to the Winners and Thank You to everyone who participated! [/message] Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Aomei has kindly offered
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Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… WonderFox Giveaway
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DVD Ripper Pro WonderFox and DCT have teamed up to offer some free copies of DVD Ripper Pro to our readers. This giveaway will be in effect until March 8, 2018. The license for this software usually sells for $49.95 (US), but you can get
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Repeating Last Action There is a key that is hardly used and yet is a highly efficient shortcut for speeding up tasks in Word and Excel when you need to repeat the same action, once, twice or many, many times! That key is the F4
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System Tray The System Tray is what we used to call what is now officially known as the Notification Area. That has too many syllables and sounds too high-brow for my tastes, so System Tray, it is. The System Tray is that part of the
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What Are Drivers? Put simply, a “driver” in computer parlance is a bit of software that allows your operating system to communicate with a bit of hardware. Examples would be your graphics card, audio devices, a mouse, a keyboard, your webcam, and any other peripheral
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Have you ever had someone mispronounce your first or last name? Of course you have! Unless your name is John or Jane Doe, then you probably had this happen once in your life. After having my last name pronounced wrong many times my wife told
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Giveaways & Contests Dave’s Computer Tips is working hard to bring top-quality software to our readers. Please note that none of the upcoming contests and giveaways are etched in stone. Changes may be made to this list at any time. Here’s what’s happening… Running Now!
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A woman called me wanting to know where her Saved Facebook items went. Before this, I didn’t know you could save anything. I’m not really into Facebook, or any social media for that matter. I have a Twitter account I’ve never used. That’s just me.
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Templates Templates in Word are a guide for how you would like your document to appear. One great use of templates is to store boilerplate documents (i.e., contracts, forms, legal pleadings, etc.). I use templates to create boilerplate documents all the time. Everyone knows that
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System Protection The System Protection feature has been in place since the release of the unpopular Windows Millennium Edition. It’s purpose is to provide a very basic backup of the Windows Registry, along with driver states and some important system files. Accessing this feature is
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Recently I was messing around on my personal Facebook page (recently = 2 seconds ago). While I was looking around I started thinking about the posts that show up most often on my feed. Facebook loves to use their algorithms to show you what they
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Update: March 4 — A second eMail has been sent to the winners. Apparently some were not received the first time around. Update: March 5 — A third round of eMail was sent to the winners due to problems with my eMail server. Apologies all
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