While doing regular maintenance and software updating on my system one day, I ran into a situation where I saw quite a few reboots and blue screens. What had happened? I could not be sure, but the Windows blue screen…
Cloud storage is immensely useful for data security and accessibility purposes. Most tech enthusiasts recognize that WebDAV is one of the best (default) solutions for creating mappings to online storage. In fact, this website is backed up to DropBox and…
As a regular Word user and an owner of a tablet PC, I was surprised one day to find that I could not select tables using the square table select block that usually shows up at the upper left of…
A few years ago, I wrote about how to offload data from size-limited but speedy SSDs to HDDs using mklink. I wrote that: Some useful things to take off of your SSD are: ● Microsoft Office’s MSOCache ● The Windows…
When creating a site on WordPress using a multisite install, some of us simply duplicate a blog to retain most of our settings. If the base blog, however, has disabled commenting on posts, the new blog will also have comments…
Most of the news I read is pulled from many different sources. For technology, I like to read Ars Technica and AnandTech, while I stay current on Asian news with Yahoo and the Japan Times. But there are often too…
For those of us that run websites based on Google Sites, the recent boost in search rankings for HTTPS websites, and the subsequent devaluing of unsecured HTTP websites, may have hurt us. However, there is no way to enable HTTPS…
I bought a Dell XPS 11 a while back for its super-slim form and excellent display. So far, it’s been a pleasure to use. However, I recently ran into a problem where the volume buttons started triggering Microsoft Narrator. I…
Before, integration between Feedly and IFTTT worked for free. Now, it does not. Instead, use Pocket as a go between. Save to Pocket, then use Pocket to post to WordPress or connect to your other services. As a bonus, tagged…
Those of us who use portable apps on our USB drives often run into the following problem: when using another PC, the shortcuts often don’t work anymore. To work around this issue, use relative paths for shortcuts. To create this,…