We all know that one of the tasks teachers must perform is creating quizzes, tests and exams for their students. One of my dearest friends has a daughter who is a teacher and she likes to format her true and false quizzes thusly – though […]
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According to my stepson I’m old. I’m old because I’m over forty, life is passing me by or already has, I am of little use to society and should seek help at a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland, Holland or preferably one within shuffling distance of
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I am currently in the process of putting together a Digital Photography class at our local library. I have secured a long time friend of mine who is a professional photographer to run the class and I am assisting her with putting together material for
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Finally, after decades of having tight control over set-top cable boxes, cable TV companies in the U.S. are being challenged as the Federal Communication Commission is finally exercising its statutory responsibility to ensure competition. As you might expect, satellite and cable providers, along with some
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A reader wrote recently inquiring about the documents he takes home to work on. It seems like the documents he brings home on his flash drive always open in Read Only. I asked him if he had the same version of Word at home as
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Yes folks, yet another new Ransomware variant has reared its ugly head. This one is nicknamed ‘Locky’, so called because it encrypts all your important files and renames them with the extension [.locky]. Keep in mind too that Locky will not only scramble files on
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A woman brought me her Vista laptop to fix. First there was a BIOS password she wanted removed. Since she knew the password that was no problem. Just go into the BIOS, look for the password options, then reset them by leaving them blank. Then
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We’re all doomed! Scary, right? Well, maybe, but I should explain a bit first. Back in the dark ages of computing, say 2011, Microsoft announced they would implement Secure Boot, which is a protocol included in the UEFI, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface(BIOS successor), in Windows
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On February 23rd, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission settled with Taiwan-based ASUSTeK Computer, Inc. over the marketing of its routers which put hundreds of thousands of consumer’s home networks at risk. The complaint included charges the ASUS routers featured insecure “cloud” services which led to
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How many times have you been merrily typing away only to look up and see that somewhere along the way you’ve inadvertently pressed the Caps Lock key? Being a writer and a two fingered typist who has to look at the keyboard while typing, I
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A few weeks ago, I told you about a free way to run Android from your computer with RemixOS. The recommended method for this was to run Remix OS from a USB 3.0 compliant memory stick. But, there is also an easy way to turn
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Insider Preview Build 14267 For those who may not be familiar with the Insider program: Microsoft set up its Insider Program primarily as a means for pre-testing changes and new features in Windows 10. Microsoft account holders were invited to join the program and install
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It is finally here – Facebook Reactions The world wide launch of Facebook Reactions, or as I like to call it “My emotions”, has finally arrived and we are happy about it (at least I am). Facebook has finally given us a way to express
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Facebook has changed a heck of a lot since I started using it in 2007 and most of it for the better, so whilst I was idling away half an hour or so when I really should have been doing something a tad more constructive,
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