Power strips are pretty common. Not only do I have them in my office, but the HDTV has one. Even the kitchen TV has a power strip. And they’re not just those boxy sticks with a row of plugs on them. Power strips can be quite complicated, which makes the choosing and buying process frustrating.
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August 9, 2016Power Strip InsanityAugust 4, 2016Wrap Text Around a PictureWhen you stick a picture into a document, Word chooses the inline with text layout option. That’s fine for simple images and it’s pretty easy to understand and format. When you need to get fancy, and take your document formatting up a notch, you choose another layout option for the image.
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August 2, 2016Playing with Calendar CategoriesWhen you create an event in your Android’s Calendar app, you might be prompted to choose a “calendar.” I prefer the term “calendar category.” When you use these categories, you can organize your events according to duty. That step may be unnecessary, but it’s an option I find useful.
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July 29, 2016SPECIAL – Windows 10 Do-or-Die Day
This is it! It’s the day the incessant warnings actually do stop. You have until midnight tonight to accept Microsoft’s polite-yet-aggressive offer of a free Windows 10 update. After then, the Windows 10 upgrade will come at a cost. July 28, 2016Adding a Simple Image CaptionIn an earlier post, I made a video on how to stick an image into a document at a simple level. At the same basic level, you can quickly add a caption below the image. It’s not a clever trick, but it’s something that requires a few extra steps when you want to do it correctly.
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July 26, 2016Replacing the Graphics CardAs I predicted in the last blog post, my son’s PC received a new graphics adapter. Unlike the old one, this newer model featured 2GB of graphics memory. It also sports two fans, and to us that feature was appealing because we figured the issue was the system overheating. We were wrong. July 21, 2016Replacing a Power SupplyAfter two days, a new 500W power supply was delivered to my abode. My son and I took no time to install the beast into his PC. And right away we noticed that the new power supply featured a larger fan. It looked more efficient. If heat was causing his PC to restart, then the new power supply might help. July 19, 2016Too Darn Hot!My son’s PC has an annoying habit of restarting. It goes just fine for days, then it will run for 20 minutes, restart, and repeat that cycle all day long. Seeing how I’ve written books on PC troubleshooting, I figured that I would take a stab at fixing the thing. July 14, 2016A Picture in Your DocumentShoving a picture into a word processing document isn’t anything new. Even the text-based word processors of the late 1980s could accomplish the feat, albeit rather crudely and not in a manner anyone called “delicious.”
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July 12, 2016UFS Storage for Your Android PhoneRecently, Samsung announced a new, faster media card, one that you’ll probably see available on its mobile devices in the near future. The Universal Flash Storage, or UFS, standard provides for data access up to five times faster than the standard microSD card. That’s pretty dern fast.
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