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….
In part 1 in our monthly article on elearningworld.org, we talked about ChatGPT and its usefulness in e-learning, the latest release of OpenAI Chat Block and a brief introduction on making it all more relevant by powering it up with FilterCodes. So, hopefully by now you’ve got OpenAI Chat Block installed and a OpenAI API…
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…
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…
There are few things more annoying to someone browsing the web than to click a link that doesn’t work. While building pages on your site, test each link to make sure it works each time you create a link. Even after you’re done, and especially if your site has links to other sites, check all…
Did You Know? Since 1998, Microsoft Windows has included the ability to create compressed ZIP files (under the name “Compressed Folders”), open and extract files from ZIP files too. Applications like WinZip are now only necessary if you need to do things like create self-extracting ZIP files or password protect them. Even in these cases, there…
Does Photoshop tend to turn the blue in your photos into purple? When viewing photos outside of Photoshop, they actually seem to have the right colours. The first time I opened a picture in Photoshop, I was disappointed. After all, I had spent a lot of money and one would expect the colours to come out…