10 Simple [Google] Search Tips and Tricks You Will Use Google Search (Some tips work with Bing and other search engines) Use quotes to search for an exact phrase: Here’s a simple trick that can help you narrow down your search results in a jiffy. Searching for a phrase in quotes will return search results containing the same words… Read More »
Beware of this Netflix Scam Scams are nothing new, but this Netflix Scam is very well done (if one can say that about a scam). The email that is being sent out looks like a Netflix communication. The scammers have tried to personalize the greeting but have so far failed. You may see just a Hi or Hi… Read More »
Some Nifty Keyboard Shortcuts for Chrome [and other browsers too] Reopen Closed Tab Close a tab you didn’t mean to? Just use the shortcut Ctrl + Shift +T and the tab you closed comes back to life. This works on Firefox, Opera & Edge too. What if you want to go back through more closed tabs? Just press… Read More »
What’s Your Computer’s Up Time? This tips works in Windows 7, Windows 8.x and Windows 10 (all versions) How Long Has It Been Since You Started or Restarted Your PC? We leave our computers running 24/7. If you asked us how long it’s been since we last restarted our PCs, we couldn’t tell you without looking at our… Read More »
Windows 10 Still Free [to some] until December 31, 2017 Microsoft allowed everyone using Windows 7 and Windows 8 to upgrade to Windows 10 free of charge for one year from the date of the initial release in 2015. And since then anyone using any of what Microsoft calls “Assistive technologies” can still get Windows 10 free of… Read More »
How to Repair or Reset Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge is finally joining the cadre of full-featured browsers. Microsoft rushed it out before it was ready for prime time and that turned a lot of people against it – including us. In first incarnations of Edge you couldn’t even use extensions. To its credit, Microsoft has been improving Edge… Read More »