“False positives” occur whenever a file is flagged as being dangerous or malicious when it is in fact quite safe. Anyone who’s ever dealt with antivirus software has come across false positives at some time or another. To this day, I still receive numerous comments […]
WhatsApp Image Quality Have you ever noticed that when you send a photo in WhatsApp the end result is a much degraded picture? This is because the images are automatically resized and compressed. For example, a 4000 x 1868 pixels image (1.95MB) when sent via
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Today I was trying to figure out what I should do for my how-to this week. Then my beautiful wife gave me a great idea. She told me that you can add notes to your phone contacts. This can be helpful if you need to
Google has recently introduced a bookmarks sidebar feature into its Chrome browser and in this article, I’ll show you how to enable it. There was a time when browsers included a bookmarks sidebar by default, but these days only the Firefox browser retains this feature.
A subscriber contacted me recently and asked if they could replace an all-caps abbreviation/acronym (ie., NAACP) with another word without all caps. They said every time they used Find and Replace it was all caps and wanted to know if there was any magic fix
Most of us are aware that Microsoft’s built-in antivirus started life as a bit of a joke but through several iterations, it has now become generally regarded as being among the best antivirus solutions available… free or otherwise. Malwarebytes Antimalware Package Deal I recently received
I recently read a comment from a DCT reader who indicated that he had difficulty identifying a link on our DCT pages because he is color blind. I thought, there must be a method of changing colors or themes on a computer to improve vision
There’s one piece of software that I come across on customers’ computers more frequently than I would wish to and that’s McAfee antivirus, known as McAfee Total Protection. It’s so prevalent that it almost feels like a virus itself. Most of my customers are running
I had some issues with Opera, my main browser, now called Opera One. Opera Update Breaks Opera So I decided to use Opera GX until I got Opera One cleared out. One problem I had with Opera GX was getting the Speed Dials to show.
Microsoft PowerToys v.0.70.0 This utility was first introduced with the release of Windows 95. Microsoft has largely ignored the application until this new release. It is basically a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience to give you to
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My son was watching videos on TikTok recently (no surprise) and started getting annoyed that the closed captions were on and in the way. Not sure why that bothered him but I stepped in to help figure out how to turn them off. This brought
Ascomp F-Rename Ascomp has come to the rescue with five licenses for five lucky DCT winners of this Ascomp F-Rename software. These licenses are currently valued at $19.90 (US) each. Ascomp also offers a free unlimited 14-day trial version so you can try it out
