Just like your car requires regular maintenance, your Microsoft Windows, your applications and your computer require some care to work at their best. To keep things running stable and smooth, we recommend these maintenance tasks be completed no less than once a year. This article, originally published in 2011, has been updated in 2024. 1….
With very short warning due to COVID-19, you may have been asked to move out of your well-equipped office space, and relegated to working from home for the foreseeable future. All you were given time to do was to grab your laptop. Hopefully you didn’t forget your A/C charger adapter or your mouse. If you’ve…
Is technology preventing you from taking advantage of the tools that will help your business? Some of the things you might want to do for your business require knowing how to harness the power of computer technology. You might have always wanted to learn how to make the most of your smartphone, create a website,…
According to Anthony Robbins, regardless of our gender, our culture or where we live in the world, all humans have six basic human needs. Here is a little more information where I expand on these needs: These needs can be fulfilled using empowering or disempowering beliefs. By redefining how we are going to fulfil these needs, we…
So, you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 just before the July 29th free upgrade deadline. Does everything work or should you rollback to Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 before that option expires too? Here is a quick checklist: Be sure to test anything that is important to you. The newer your computer, the better your chances of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ottawa, Ontario Canada April 11, 2016 TNG Consulting Inc. is proud to announce the public beta release of Calendar Dates, a free Open Source tool to help you create calendars. Have you ever wanted to create a personalized calendar but found it to be a pain to enter between 28 and 31…
Haven’t backed up your computer in a while? You may want to consider doing it sooner than later. Do you recognize any of potential situations? You have been working on your family tree or home inventory, a collection of digital family photos, clip art, videos, music or a diary. You have been developing a revolutionary…
We are often asked about firewalls, anti-virus, adware and spyware. Is it really safe to even leave my computer on? Every computer attached to the Internet should be secured by installing and using software which will protect it from the Internet. This includes firewall, anti-virus and adware/spyware protection. Today, these product are usually bundled together and…
Changing your profile photo on Facebook is pretty easy but the option is a little hidden. Start by editing the photo. I’ve made some photo editing tips available to help you optimize the quality of your profile photo. Once you have your photo saved on your computer and ready to be uploaded: Log into Facebook…
You’ve decided to join the Social Media revolution – Welcome dear friend! So how do you make a profile photo that will look good? The secret begins with ALWAYS working on a copy of the original photo! You always want to work on the highest quality version of your photo because it contains the most…
While many people in the world are quite content to go do their job every day until they retire, there are others who can’t seem to stay happy in a job for more than 4-5 years. If you are once of these people, there is someting you need to know: The 5 Year Cycle of…
In Broken Links Part 1: Checking Tools for Your Website, we tool a look at a few tools to help you identify links that no longer work on your website. In Part 2, we will now go over some tips and techniques to help you repair these website links. So, you are having trouble figuring out…