When asked the question, what is the best laptop? Most people are looking for one precise answer. To be totally honest there isn’t a one size fits all answer. Choosing a laptop is liking choosing shoes. You would 1st want to know how you will use these shoes. Am I running a 5K or am…
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While most people have heard this name and for some it is as commonly used as your spouse’s name, there are number of people that would like to know…Who is Alexa? Alexa is the name you call to wake up your Amazon Echo Device. Now you ask, what is an Amazon Echo Device? Echo device…
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Elusive Show Desktop Button -Go to the far right corner of your task bar -Click on the rectangular button (only identifiable by the little white line in front of it.) Your desktop should appear. Hidden Start Menu You can access the hidden Start Menu that looks a lot like Windows 7 -Right Click on the…
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Has your camera on your Mac just stop working for no apparent reason? And your Mac tells you “There is no Connected Camera”. Try this easy command to see if this will bring that camera back to life. Open Terminal (you can open Spotlight Search and type terminal) Enter command: sudo Killall VDCAssistant Enter password…
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Being able to access things faster on your Mac is always a plus. Shortcut keys do just that it allows you to press a combination of keys to access certain commands on the fly. Here are a few of my favorite shortcut keys that could make your day. Key Combination Function command + A copy…
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Extend Battery Life Extending your battery life on your iPhone could possibly keep you going until you can actual find time to recharge. It decreases background activity like downloads and mail fetching. Here is how you access this battery option. Open the setting App Open Battery Slide the bar to enable “Low Power Mode”
Saving documents in OneDrive is a great way to back up documents and files. The days of emailing documents back and forth to yourself from different computers and remembering to bring your USB stick everywhere are over. Now that you have signed up for OneDrive. (Not sure about OneDrive…see my article What is OneDrive?) Here is how to access…
One Drive is Microsoft version of Cloud Storage. (Cloud meaning some mass storage facility somewhere holding all your data on a large computer). With OneDrive you can store various folders, files, photos and even videos OneDrive works really nicely on Windows PC given user the option of downloading the program to your desktop to use with Windows…
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Just installed a new program, or you just installed a huge batch of Windows Updates and now you are working at snail’s pace. Wouldn’t it be nice to just put your computer back just the way it was before you had all of this happened? Just a mini time machine. Well Microsoft Windows has a built-in feature…
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Having issues with your computer? Maybe restoring it to a previous state could resolve your problem. Here is how to bring your computer back to life, if you have a valid restore point in Windows 10. In the search bar type System Restore Click on Create a restore point System Properties window will open Click…
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