Most if not all of us have used a webcam at one time or another. Used in conjunction with a program like Skype, they are extremely handy for talking to friends, family, and business acquaintances face-to-face almost anywhere in the world. Ah, the world we […]
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I’ve written about programs auto-starting with Windows many times and how they can be unnecessarily consuming valuable resources. Apparently, many software developers believe that their programs are so good they need to be running all the time. The fact of the matter is, most of
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SmartScreen Included with the Windows operating system since at least Windows 7, if you use Internet Explorer or MS Edge, you may have seen it in action when you try to visit a suspicious web site, or try to download a file that Microsoft deems
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What Is Timeline Timeline was introduced as a new feature in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709). Timeline is part of Task View, which is accessible by clicking the Task View button on your Task Bar. Task View was added to Windows 10 to
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The Windows Lock Screen was introduced in the now infamous Windows 8 version. People seem to have mixed feelings about it– some like seeing a pretty picture when they start their computer, while others see it as an unnecessary annoyance which involves yet another click
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OneDrive There are many cloud synchronization solutions offered by major companies on the Internet these days. Microsoft has OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) in its arsenal to follow the pack. The familiar DropBox is one, along with Amazon, Google, and many others. Regardless of which one you
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Keyloggers “Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Keylogging can also be used
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So, just recently I promised my oldest son that I would buy him an Xbox One. He earned it and I always wanted one (it is for my son- I swear). With any new device nowadays there is some location tracker set up on them.
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Notifications Windows 10 provides a Notification Area which, well.. notifies you with App and System information. You also have the option of Enabling/Disabling this feature on a per App basis. What you may not know, however, is that you can also control the Priority and
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Microsoft has done things backwards when it comes to Cortana, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) that is shipped with Windows 10. In typical Microsoft fashion, Cortana is enabled by default. If a customer decides they don’t want Cortana running on their computer, they are forced to
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Mouse Wake-Up If you have your computer set up to automatically go to sleep after a period of time, you will also need a way to wake it back up. On a laptop this is simply done with the lid; open the lid and the
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Cortana I have a problem talking to my computer; it makes me feel uncomfortable somehow. I’ve really tried very hard to look at my computer and say, “Hey, Cortana!” I just don’t like it. Maybe if I could rename her to ‘HAL’, that would help,
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I guess I was one of many who recently accessed their Gmail only to see incoming emails automatically sorted under a new tabs system. This may be fine if emails were categorized properly but it seemed to me they had been randomly sorted under different
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