Not Exactly a File and Folder Backup But Darn Near As Good

A Word About Windows 8x and Windows 10 File History One of our favorite features in Windows 8 is File History. File History is an automatic update service in Windows 8 that can back up your personal files and folders to an external hard drive, and lets you selectively restore personal files and folders whenever needed. Because it requires… Read More »

Ping!

Windows Ping Feature EB used to use Ping, but now she’s changed to Calloway. She just couldn’t get the distance out of her Pings as she does from her Calloways. As folks get older they lose some punch on their drives. Calloways aren’t cheap. EB took out a second mortgage to get them. Bad decision – now she… Read More »

Three Tips for Windows 8x

Three Tips for Windows 8x Make a Windows 8 app tile larger or smaller Right-click the tile you want to change. (If you’re using a touchscreen tap and hold the tile.) This adds a check mark to the upper-right corner of the tile and displays the options bar at the bottom of your screen. Now click or tap… Read More »

Wander through the forest and find great photos

Forest Wander Who doesn’t like beautiful pictures of nature, besides EB? She doesn’t like anything. But really, who doesn’t like looking at beautiful photos of forests, mountains, flowers, wildlife, landscapes, etc.? This Cloudeight Site Pick features hundreds of high-resolution photos of nature — by category – from Forest Trails, to Mountains, to Wildlife to the unusual. It’s too bad this… Read More »

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Check a site for cookies before you visit While we have an ambivalent attitude toward cookies, many of you seem to be concerned with cookies and no amount of words by us are going to get you to stop worrying about cookies. Therefore in the spirit of capitulation, we offer to those cookiephobics among you a Web site where… Read More »