The Windows 10 free upgrade period may have expired but legal repercussions from Microsoft’s heavy-handed upgrade practices are set to continue on for some time yet. In separate class action law suits: three Florida men have sued the company alleging that its Windows 10 upgrade […]
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Whatismybrowser.com is essentially a tech support aid which provides basic yet useful information about a user’s browser. Those of you who are the go-to-person for computer issues among your group of family and friends will know exactly where I’m coming from – if you’re trying
What do you do as an alternative when you have just had enough of technology and need a little break? Technology is wonderful and is what I do for a living, but sometimes when I am stressed out and had enough I go to
Windows 10 Anniversary Update… is now available and being pushed to computers through Windows Update. Microsoft has included several new ‘features’ that come with this update. Notable features include a number of User Interface (UI) improvements to the Start Menu, Notification Center, Task Bar, and greater
What’s with the “Back to School” circulars? Scratching my head, wait isn’t it still summer? Our newspaper is getting heavier and heavier with inserts jam packed with sales circulars. It’s that time of year once again, “Back to School” time. I decided to peruse some of
The use of macros in Excel is made possible by the VBA programming language and we tend to avail ourselves of it often in our workbooks. We do this because we want to do things within our worksheets quickly and efficiently. Every time we create
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Introduction In the previous installment of this article, Galactic Civilizations III – How To Win – Part I, I tried to give you some pointers for setting up your game and some advice for game-play concepts that will serve you throughout your Galactic Civilizations III
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Australia is a large country with a relatively small population which can essentially be divided into two distinct groups: The city dwellers – who tend to congregate around Australia’s lush coastal strip, and The “bushies” – who inhabit Australia’s vast and often isolated interior. It’s
Back in May this year Microsoft announced that the free upgrade offer would continue after July 29th for customers using assistive technologies. This decision was made to allow more time for assistive technology providers to overcome any potential incompatibilities. Microsoft has now launched the free
Hard drive failure can undoubtedly be one of the most disastrous hardware issues faced by PC users, often resulting in lost data or an unusable operating system. However, almost all hard drives these days include a feature called SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting) Technology which
With Facebook, you would think they would make it easy to find the Help option. Nope, this monster company doesn’t want it to be easy. On most websites you go to, there is an easy-to-locate link at the bottom or on the side that says, “Help”,
Tech writers are always pushing people to start using a password manager, and there are very good reasons for that – not least of which is that a password is the lock on the gate to your accounts and sensitive data. If you use a
I’m a photography buff and while I don’t take a ton of pictures on my phone, (mostly because my HTC One M9 has a mediocre camera), I can certainly appreciate a camera phone’s use when you’re in a pinch and without a real camera. The good
In Academia there are often very lengthy documents that have myriad footnotes and they sometimes necessitate cross-referencing. This often occurs in technological business manuals as well. The issue here is that when you use automatic footnote numbering the cross-references can be a burden if you
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