Every December around the 20th, the day I write this, the VLC logo on the player gets a Christmas decoration. A Santa hat. Apparently, some people don’t like this. It doesn’t bother me but if you are one of those who don’t want to see […]
Most of you will be well aware of the Ashampoo software company which distributes a wide range of excellent products. Ashampoo has built a solid reputation over many years for providing quality software. Now, the company has released a free software client called “Connect” which
With several computers in our household and those of family and friends, I still need to reinstall or upgrade Windows from time to time, be it Windows 10 or 11. On these occasions, I never connect to the Internet until the installation is complete and
Overview In 2013, Amazon launched the AmazonSmile program offering Amazon Prime members an opportunity to give money to a charity every time they shop. The AmazonSmile tagline is “You Shop. Amazon Gives” and Amazon says that the members can “Experience feel-good shopping” when shopping on
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… Expired! Ashampoo
Some of you may know I really love gaming, from NES to the PS5. Gaming has always been a passion of mine and that gave me an idea for a new How-to article. I have been hunting for the PS5 ever since it came out
I’m 76 years old so have seen TVs evolve from the old valve days when TV enclosures were about 10 times larger than the actual screen to today’s electronic marvels – I love the modern big flat-screen TVs. I had always been a Panasonic man
A virtual machine (VM) is like a physical computer except that it is implemented through software rather than hardware. It consists of a physical machine called the “host” and a VM called the “guest” or “client”. The physical machine uses an operating system, for example,
Wise is currently running a Christmas giveaway involving multiple premium software titles – expires 24th December. Wise Main Giveaway As the main giveaway, Wise is providing free copies of its excellent Wise Folder Hider Pro software – limited to 500 copies per day. NOTE: This
A guy called me because when he printed something up he was getting blank pages. He called with this problem before and originally, it turned out he was out of ink. But he only recently got a new ink cartridge and it shouldn’t be empty
Aomei Christmas Giveaway – $1300 Worth Aomei is running a huge Christmas software giveaway (expires 27th December) including 21 premium products separated into the following categories: Backup & Recovery: Aomei Backupper Pro, Amoei FoneTool Pro (backup iPhone/iPad), Aomei MyRecover Pro (data recovery) Useful Tools: Aomei
I’m not an avid football (soccer) fan and only watch the sport when the World Cup comes up every four years. But this time around I was presented with a dilemma because, although I was born in England, I’m descended from Welsh parents and live
When Windows 11 debuted, it offered a new feature, called Voice Typing, the newest iteration of the Windows speech dictation tool to convert spoken words into text. Speech-to-text is a useful process for quickly getting thoughts into the computer without having to worry about typing.
Ventoy is a free and open-source tool to create multi-boot flash drives. Ventoy creates a very small boot partition leaving the remainder of the flash drive’s space free to accommodate multiple ISOs. You can add as many ISOs as you wish, only limited by the
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