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…

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,…

Windows 11

Are You Ready for Windows 11?

So we have had Covid-19, death and illness along with many small business failures because of Covid, oil pipelines, LinkedIn, Facebook and others hacked in 2021, fights for the presidency (not unusual) along with many problems over the past months. So, guess what? Now we are getting ready for a new release of Microsoft’s Operating…

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…

Free Email Accounts

Free Email Accounts

I looked last week at some more common questions I get from my readers. I will continue on that this week, and also next week. Last week it was browser questions. Today we will think about email and to be specific, free email. There are some very popular email providers out there which you may…

I paid for software?

Apps I Purchased

The holidays are usually a great time of getting together with family and friends. I do not know how or if you are planning that this year, but I hope you have a great holiday season whatever you have decided. Also, as I have been asked this year and others, “Why don’t you write about…

Traveling Minstrel

The Changing Face of Entertainment

You know the history of entertainment has changed tremendously throughout the years. I guess we first started with someone gathering around the fire ring to tell stories. They would enthrall the listeners with daring-do and excitement to escape the mundane of everyday life. In time things changed and we had bards going from town-to-town singing…