I Always Wanted To Know: What is Bluetooth? What is it used for? Answer: When looking at specifications for computers, phones and tablets you may see the word Bluetooth, but what does it refer to? What is it used for? Bluetooth is a wireless communication standard built… Continue reading
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Steve from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma writes: I still haven’t figured out an easy way to post pictures in the text of Outlook e-mails. I don’t want to make them attachments. Is that possible? Steve, not only is it possible, it’s pretty easy. Here’s how: Continue reading
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Cool Site – Food Beast – A one-stop location for premiere food news, culture and entertainment. Continue reading
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In The News 5-24-2013: Microsoft has plans to take over your living room with Xbox One and Yahoo buys Tumblr, but promises not to screw it up. Continue reading
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Mozilla has decided to hold off on a plan to automatically block third-party cookies by default with a patch in Firefox 22. Many advertisers had complained saying that blocking cookies would damage small business. Continue reading
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Google has introduced a series of enhancements to Google + in hopes of drawing more users to the service which has 190 million monthly users compared to Facebook’s 1 billion monthly users. Continue reading
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Robert from Rock Hill SC writes: I recently purchased a tablet with Win 8 operating system. This unit has one “micro USB” outlet. I am attempting to connect the tablet to my desktop via a USB connector. The desktop runs on Win 7 Home Edition. Neither unit will acknowledge the other unit. Can you tell me if the issue is because the Win 7 and Win 8 are not compatible. Or, is the problem maybe because of the micro USB? Thank you very much in advance. Continue reading
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This free Android Spirograph app should bring back lots of childhood memories and prove to be a relaxing time-killer. Continue reading
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Hi Steve, I am reading your solutions for more than one year. I’ve a problem. When I type in MS word the character in displayed one by one. I mean the characters are displayed very slow. what may be the reason and it solution. Thanks. There’s more than one thing that could be responsible for the problem. But I do have a handy free tool provided by Microsoft that can help with many Office issues. Continue reading
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Is your “new folder” option missing? Learn how to restore it so you can create folders by right-clicking again. Continue reading
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Cool Site – How do the advertisements of the past stack up with reality of today? Find out at Modern Mechanix. Continue reading
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Cool Site – Nepal Climbing -A high altitude climbing and expedition company from Nepal that shares information about trekking, Mount Everest, and lots of information about Nepal, Tibet, India, and Bhutan. Continue reading
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Those complaining about the lack of apps available for Windows 8 devices, aren’t going to like this bit of news. Google has demanded that Microsoft pull their recently released YouTube app from the Windows Phone Store and disable any of the apps already installed on devices. Continue reading
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Carol from Wakefield, MA writes: I have Windows 7 Home Premium and I use Outlook now as it was changed from Hotmail awhile back. I keep reading different instructions to do different things and they usually start with … Click on FILE .. That’s where I am lost! There is no tool bar for Outlook.com that I have ever seen. Consequently, I do not have the word FILE in Outlook.com. I guess my question would be..why don’t I have it? Continue reading
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If you’re not using an old computer, is it necessary to keep the operating system on the old machine? The answer is “yes” if you want to run programs, but “no” if you want to remove the drive to use as an external drive to store documents. Continue reading
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A super quick tip for those frustrated by the lack of a Start Menu in Windows 8. There is a way to pull-up an almost-Start Menu by hitting a couple of keys. Continue reading
Use the Photoshop Artistic Blur Effect to make your photos suitable for framing. This tutorial will show you how to create an artistic blur effect on a photo and then select among three variants according to the mood or color-tone you prefer. Continue reading
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Microsoft releases Windows patches on the second Tuesday of each month. As part of May’s “Patch Tuesday,” they offered fixes for 33 separate security bugs in ten patches for programs such as Internet Explorer and Word. Continue reading
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Lucille from Ky writes: Have trouble getting my Outlook.com address book. I mean the whole thing. When I want to forward something, it just shows a few. I’ve had quite a few questions about getting to your full Outlook.com address book. Here’s how to do it. Continue reading
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Cool Site -Chart Girl distills complicated matters into easily understandable charts that diagram topics straight out of the headlines or are buzzing around social media. Continue reading
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Google is now offering its own streaming music service called All Access. The service is available for Android phones and tablets and for the web. Continue reading
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Eleanor from Ohio writes: I have a Windows XP. How do I copy a recipe from Facebook without copying a whole lot of pages? Thank you Eleanor. Well Eleanor, if you’re like me, your Facebook feed is filling up with photos of tempting photos of food with recipes in the caption. Here’s how to save them. Continue reading
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I Always Wanted To Know: What Are The Most Important Tablet Specs? Answer: If you’ve considered buying a tablet device recently, you’ve probably seen a specifications page a mile long, but which are the most important specifications to pay attention to? I’ll break it down into 4 key… Continue reading
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Sick of running to the internet or a paper calendar every time you need to know a US holiday? Did you know you can ad holidays to the calendar on your iPhone? It’s super easy, read on! Continue reading
Cool Site – What Should I Read Next? -Enter a book you like and the site will analyze its database of real readers’ favorite books to provide suggestions for what to read next. Continue reading
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Bob from Canada writes: I don’t like the layout of Outlook.com. The left has the inbox,sent,deleted etc., but the right side also has a dashboard leaving the actual email reading pane small and in the middle. is there a way of getting rid of the dashboard on the right side or collapsing it? Thank you. Continue reading
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In The News for 5-17-2013 – Regal Cinemas offers closed-caption glasses, Google combines cloud storage space and Microsoft says it’s time to lay off criticizing Windows 8. Continue reading
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