Microsoft Plays Games With Silverlight To play certain videos, like Netflix and videos on Microsoft’s site, you’ll need to install Microsoft Silverlight. And we’ve hammered Sun (Java) and Adobe (Flash Player) for trying to sneak software unto people’s computers or hijack their search engine and/or browser Start page. It’s bad enough that Sun Java and Adobe Flash Player… Read More »
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A Windows 10 Menu You Probably Never Knew You Had No matter how much you think you know about Windows, we’re always finding something new. Well, maybe not new, just different. The Accessories menu is on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. Back in the days of XP, Vista, and even in… Read More »
Can you see your mouse pointer? This tip is for Windows 10, but it should work on Windows 8x and Windows 7 too. I don’t want to sound old (EB is old too), but lately I’ve been moving my mouse around and I can’t see my darn mouse pointer. Most pages web pages have white or very light… Read More »
Identify Annoying Audio from Web Pages This tip is for Chrome, Firefox and Edge Users Many sites, especially news sites, have delayed auto-start videos (or audio ads) on their pages. When surfing multiple pages, you may suddenly hear the audio, but finding which page it is on meant going through each open tab; sometimes I have 15 or… Read More »
It’s Eastertime It’s Eastertime. It’s a time of rejoicing for Christian; a time of rebirth and a time to renew our faith. But the other day I was thinking how much we all need a resurrection…a resurrection within each one of us. Each morning when we wake we can choose how we will be that day. In a… Read More »