The Eternal Battle: Mouse or Touchpad

The Eternal Battle: Mouse or Touchpad

“Oh yeah, I HATE THAT!!!” How about when you are typing, using your mouse and unknowingly, your thumb brushes up against your touchpad causing the cursor to move to…who knows where, until you see your typing appear in a strange place.

Ron's Thumb Drive

Thumb Drives

Do you have a data stick, key chain drive, jump drive, pen drive, thumb drive, USB flash drive, or any other name you may have heard of for a portable storage device? My preference is “thumb drive,” so that is what I will stick with here. A thumb drive is a portable device that can…

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC installation page

Filling Out Forms (PDFs)

Jim wrote to me several weeks ago asking me a very good question, thanks, Jim! Someone sent him an email with an attached document which he needed to fill out and return. Jim, like me, did not want to print it, fill it out by hand, take a picture of it and send it back….

Google Tricks, Part 3

For the last couple of weeks I have told you about some interesting Google tricks you can do, some helpful, others fun.  Your interest in emails has shown me that you would like a couple more of their tricks, so here we go.  Remember always start on the main Google.com page for these to work. …

2013 Sites in Review, Part 1

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year since we last talked.  I wanted to say, "Thanks!" to all of you readers who support the "Double Click" column by reading and writing over the past 12 years.  It is very much appreciated.  Please keep it up.  I always enjoy hearing from…

Program Installations with a Twist, Part 1

This column was brought about by a group of us geeks discussing the current Windows operating systems.  Of course, this included the Windows Registry and the way applications are now installed on a Windows based computer.  Basically there was a consensus that we would like to do away with the registry and the way applications…

Power of the Broom, Part 4

I did not think we would be talking about Ubuntu for yet another week but here we are. I suppose this will be the last one but you folks are the drivers, I am just the tour guide. Keep those emails coming! Several readers have been reading about Ubuntu and doing some studying. Great job!…