Category Archives: efficiency

I was helping someone today and we needed a file that was stored on a CD.  The first unlabeled disk didn’t have the file.  Neither did the second.  Fortunately the third disk (also unlabeled) had the file. Here’s a tip.  … Continue reading →

I have several computers that have no monitors.  These are machines that do basic tasks for my network: firewall, backups, video streaming, etc.  I use a free program called VNC to remotely connect to those machines. With VNC, I can … Continue reading →

I bought my first CD in 1983.  Since then I have purchased hundreds of CDs.  Even though CDs are suppose to be “permanent” recordings, I have had a few that were destroyed in accidents.  For this reason, I digitize all my music … Continue reading →

Looking back through these posts, I noticed I had not devoted a whole post to one of the more important shortcuts: Ctrl-A. Ctrl-A is used to select everything on a page.  That page can be a web page, a Word document, … Continue reading →

The media player that comes with Windows is big, slow and difficult to manipulate.  Don’t use it.  There is a much better player that looks a lot like the old media player built into Windows.  It’s called Media Player Classic. … Continue reading →