Welcome to the 15th year of "Double Click." It has been a pleasure giving you computer and tech information each week since January, 2002. Each January I review the sites I wrote about during the previous year. If the site addresses are too long for print I have shortened them using a branded short domain…
Now that Christmas is over and you have a new Windows 10 computer, what should you do? I suggest the first thing you do out of the box is run a windows update. It may be running a second after you boot up the computer; however, check to make sure. It is quite easy to…
When work, vacation time and life all work together my wife and I like to go camping. Many times we are camping in areas without electricity. Now do not misunderstand, since I am writing about camping in December. We DO NOT camp, other than in a warm hotel, during the winter. However, it did get…
Last week I introduced you to Smartwatches. I think they are terrific gadgets…especially for the more geeky among us. They provide lots of information as I mentioned last week when I outlined many things the two I have are able to do. We will compare them today. By the way, the prices listed are for…
A Watch for Christmas I recently had a chance to test out two smartwatches for an extended period of time: The Moto 360 by Motorola which came out in 2014 and the Pebble from 2012. The Pebble was a Kickstarter project which raised over $10 million in 30 days by donations from complete strangers who…
I had a reader give me upsetting news last week. They said that their computer failed to boot when they started it a few days before and they had a lot of personal and semi-business files there. What could they do to get them backup? They had taken it to a computer repair shop in…
There were a couple of interesting electronic add-ons to our world a few years ago. One called Siri for iPhones/Apple devices and “OK Google” for Google devices. For my Android phone I simply say, “OK Google” and tell it whatever I am looking for. If I need help finding a store I say, “OK Google,”…
Windows 10 is not the perfect operating system and has a few things that annoy me. I figure there are some of you out there who are also annoyed by these things. Today we will look at a few of these and Windows 10 annoyances A nice feature which first appeared in Windows 7 and…
The Taskbar in Windows 10 has some new features some of which we will look at today. First off, right click on your start menu button and get a surprise. There are more than 15 different windows functions available in a list. There you will find "Programs and Features" used to uninstall programs and install…
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