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There are dozens of personal inventory software programs and apps for consumers to catalog their belongings in case of fire, theft, or some other disaster. However, you can create your own system that will, in most cases, meet your needs. Simply use your smartphone or digital camera to photograph valuables and upload those photos to a storage…
Photo books are an affordable option for telling a story in print, or simply preserving photographic memories. Photo books (or printed photo albums) have quickly become a popular old-school choice in our digital world. There is something satisfying about viewing photos in a printed album versus viewing them on a computer screen. I recently ordered some photo books…
A geek rule everyone should follow: Always review software installation options when offered. Lets look at the three screens recently presented while updating RealTimes (aka Real Player) software, a program I regularly use. Screen One – A standard introduction screen offering to update my software (you will see these more often as programs are updated for Windows 10)…
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After installing Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge, I began my usual daily routine, one of which is checking for genealogy updates on Ancestry. I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised, to see the following alert. Since Microsoft Edge is a new product, built differently from Internet Explorer, this event was to be expected on some…
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I like free software, especially if it works well. With thousands of photo editing software packages available, choosing one for your needs can be exhausting. For basic editing, I use PhotoScape. It has many features, such as batch editing, resizing, color and brightness adjustment, frames, adding text, cropping, screen capture, and more. For the basic, casual…
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Google and some other providers allow smartphone users to download a portion of a map for viewing while offline or when outside a service area. However, occasionally there simply isn’t time to download a map, particularly when traveling and finding an unexpected dead zone or spotty signal from your carrier. In my area, this mostly…
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If you ever have trouble viewing videos with Windows Media or some other player, consider downloading VideoLan. It is a free open-source media player that will often work when others won’t. (Open source means that it is created and updated by volunteer geeks.) It is available for Windows, MAC & Linux, with apps for IOS and…
