Your Router’s WPA Button – How To Use it Prior to the introduction of the WPA button (often called WPS or Wi-Fi Protected Setup) there were several steps that had to be completed to ensure that your wireless device correctly connected to you home router. […]
You have painstakingly completed a lengthy email to be sent to all your colleagues and you are about to send it out when you get a phone call. Turns out this was a rather lengthy phone call and when you return to your keyboard, thinking
Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May 2025. The company announced this in an X statement. Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available. Over the coming days you can sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with your Skype account to stay connected
An older couple was having problems with their computer. It initially seemed like it was having an issue keeping its settings. For example, I would set up Chrome for them, and then it was gone. Without going into too much detail, I gradually realized what
Today, I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about a Disney employee whose life was destroyed because he didn’t have two-factor authentication (2FA) turned on in his password manager. I thought, “What an idiot! He certainly was not a DCT reader! All DCT readers
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The last few weeks I have been teaching you all about Facebook. If you missed those articles you can check them out here: How To Unblock People On Facebook How To Block People On Facebook How To Unfollow Facebook Pages/People Now that you have caught
The KB5051987 February 2025 update for Windows 11 24H2 is causing major issues. At a time when Microsoft is aggressively urging users to update to Windows 11 24H2, the last thing the company needed was yet a further series of issues created by an official
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool desktop man, mainly because I built my gaming machine for just that – gaming. I do however use it for writing and all the other day-to-day stuff that we do. However, recently I have had to become flexible because we are having
I was playing a YouTube video. It got stuck playing in a loop and I couldn’t stop it from playing. I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my cable to the TiVo system. My main reason was that it was $60 cheaper than what I
Managing Parental Controls Today it is common for children to have their own smartphones, tablets, and laptops. While fun and educational, they also pose risks if not properly monitored. Most devices have some sort of parental control. In addition, using parental control on your home
As many of you know, I ride a motorcycle for both work and pleasure, but I never hankered for motorcycling and hadn’t even sat on a bike before. It was more of a fait accompli because we had sold a car, I needed wheels and
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Aiarty Image Matting would normally sell for $49.00US for a one-year license but you can get a one-year license right now for free – the offer ends on 15th March. Aiarty Image Matting uses advanced AI to remove backgrounds in just one second. With 8K
