Conversion is a crime. But we’re not talking about converting corporate money to personal money. We’re talking about converting files from one format to another. You always think the worst of us! Yes….sure you can load up your computer with lots of programs to convert files from one format to another; but you don’t need to. How many… Read More »
EB says you can’t have too much money or too much information. So she’s constantly trying to find out how much I weigh and how much I’ve shrunk in the past year – and other personal stuff like that. She claims that information is the key to freedom – and to keeping tabs on me. I wish EB… Read More »
EB has a little program she likes that keeps a program window on top of all other windows. Just the other day I needed a program like that but I couldn’t remember the name of the one she uses. But if I wrote her and asked her the name of it, she’d make me beg and then accuse… Read More »
Have you ever wanted to set up your computer to reboot at certain time so it was fresh and ready to go whenever you’re ready? We found a great little (One Megabyte) program that works on Windows XP and newer versions of Windows that lets you shutdown or restart Windows – on a schedule you set. It also… Read More »
Two things we always harp about: strong passwords and mirror-image backups. You’re sick of hearing about those two things, but someday you’ll thank us. You’ll thank us when your friend’s Hotmail account is hacked because she was using a password like 12345 – and your account is safe because you listened to us and yours was 99%2Ld4e6Z$4 .… Read More »
You have Windows Media Player (WMP). Yes you do! But then you have to download something else to play Quicktime, and something else to play 3GP files, then something else to play RealMedia files, then something else to play some other kind of file. Oh yes, you might be able find “codecs” for Windows Media Player, but you… Read More »