Category: Computer Use
Copying DVDs to Watch on Other Devices
Want to play your DVD on your phone? Handbrake to convert to MP4 or other formats, VLC Media player to play on computer.
Affordable Toner and Dual-Sided Printing: Choosing a Reliable Laser Printer for Your Needs
Find the perfect laser printer: save on toner costs, enjoy duplex printing, and choose the right features without OS compatibility worries.
Can you Verify an Email Sender?
Remember, everyone, the “Reply To:” field is Easily faked. Looking at that is Not a way to check whether an email is legitimate. Your email reader software (whether a website or an app on your phone or an app on your computer) should indicate whether an email passes some validation (e.g. DMARC, DKIM, SPF) or…
The Best Alternatives to Email for Sending Large Files
Learn how to overcome the limitations of email when sharing large files as a course creator or life coach. Discover secure and efficient alternatives. #filesharing #productivity
Removing Spilled Coffee, Wine or Soda from your Computer Keyboard
Spilled coffee or soda on your keyboard? You can probably clean it. Here’s what to do and not do.
Text Editors to Use With WordPress
What text editor should you use as a companion to WordPress? Convert MSWord to WordPress without those formatting codes?
Using Fonts in Emails, That Can Be Read by Anyone
All email clients know about “serif”, “sans-serif” and “monospace”. All email programs (probably going back to Netscape Navigator) have a list of fonts built-in, and have a minimal font stack that include a likely Windows font and a likely OS/X font, and falls back to serif/sans-serif/monospace. My email program has “Courier” in the user interface,…
Favorite FireFox Add-Ons
Here are the FireFox add-ons that I use NoScript Essential security for your web browser! Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks. Firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug,…
KeyCaps Font for Computer Documentation
How to use CSS or a web-licensed keyboard font with all the special keys needed for computer software instructional pages.
BeInSync lets you keep files the same on all your computers
from the BeInSync Technical Overview, http://www.beinsync.com/info/technical_overview.php BeInSync create an on-the-fly private peer-to-peer network that spans your colleagues, friends, computers and online storage. Once established, BeInSync makes sure your photos, videos, music and documents are always available and up-to-date wherever you need them: * Files and folders are efficiently synchronized so that they are available and…
