Leaping Dino

Google Chrome Browser Extras, Part 1

This week we will look at a couple of “secret” tricks you can do with the Google Chrome browser. According to Global Share Statcounter as of today (gs.statcounter.com) Chrome remains in the #1 position as the most popular browser, with a 64% market share worldwide. It is followed by Safari with 19%, and Edge at…

Chrome & Flags

Chrome Flags

Today we are going to look at flags, Google Flags, to be specific. I thought I had written about this before, but I missed it. These have been around, in some form, for years and are useful if Google Chrome is your default browser. Depending on when, in the future, you are reading this, these…

Google Voice Screen

Google Voice

I hate to repeat myself, but today I will. I wrote an article about this same application approximately ten years ago. The reason I am writing about it again is the number of questions I get about it, along with learning new features it has, from other users. First, for any of this to work…

Recycle Bin

Speed Up Your Windows Computer, Part 1

I get questions regularly about how people’s computers are running slower than they were when they were new. Well, so am I. After a few years, everything slows down a bit. However, with a computer, you have some options to speed them back up. Many times these recommendations will work and then only sometimes well,…

Disk Clean Up

Clean Your Software

Last year, about this time, I wrote an article about Spring Cleaning your computer. It dealt with the physical computer cleaning like your monitor, keyboard, mouse, inside your computer, etc. Today I have an idea to help you clean the hard drive and software on your computer. First, get rid of any applications you do…

Amazon Logo

Amazon Returns

My wife got a pair of shoes for my daughter’s birthday in a local store and a pair for herself. They were too large; although they were labeled as the correct size. So a few weeks ago, she took them back to the store she purchased them from. It took her about 45 minutes to…

Ransomware

Security!?

WOW, we had a week of gas vanishing. In some locations, it is still not available as it was the week before. Why? Well, unless you do not listen to any news, it was because of a ransomware attack supposedly perpetrated by Russia hackers named DarkSide. This attack was on Colonial Pipeline, that controls a…

Hamburger possiblities

How about a Hamburger?

Universal Icons are something that you know about and may not have known you knew. Think about some of these icons. The symbol of a house, an arrow pointing to the right, a Holmesian magnifying glass, a heart, a hand with the thumb pointing up or down and many, many more. You have it; the…