I receive questions about those goofy, hard to read letters which are found on many websites from time-to-time. They are known as “Captchas.” Yes, a nonsensical word, unless you are a geek. It actually stands for the word, “capture.” Now that you just repeated them both in your mind, you are nodding – you get…
FACTS: I have owned approximately 7-8 wireless mice over the years, including ones for my wife. I am currently using the Logitech M310 on my Latitude D620 notebook. I have used it extensively for about two years. I bought it to replace a worn out Microsoft Wireless 3000, with the big USB receiver shown below…
Last time we discussed Portable Applications for your windows computers. There are several great things about portable programs. One being they are independent which means they stand alone. For instance, when installing them you select only one folder. Once installed, you will find that program and all of its related files in that folder. This…
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…
Last time we looked at a couple of browser tricks. The column was well received so today we’ll look at a few more. For quite a long while now you have not needed to type www. or .com in most web addresses/URLs. If you type only the main domain name, dnronline in your browser’s address…
I have a couple of tricks for your browsers today. These questions came in emails from Ivan and a couple of other readers recently. Today we will look at some of them. Please remember to send me your questions because I like to write about some of them from time-to-time. First, Ivan asked about putting…
I receive questions every now-and-then about listening to music online. Questions like whether you can listen on a computer or a phone, free or paid music, rock or classical, etc. There are many, many streaming music options out there so you can listen to your favorite group or genre of music. Some of the more…
I recently received an email from Bev which at first seemed very strange. She said, "Recently, when I select a portion of text to change it such as bold it, delete it, etc. — the selection won’t hold." At first I thought it was just in Word and figured that possibly her Word documents were…
As I stated last week, I annually provide links to all of the sites we have visited throughout the previous year at DoubleClicks.info. Remember, if the site addresses are too long to type I have shortened them with bit.ly. Here they are in their order of appearance with short descriptions of each. Google Calendar –…
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