The Windows 8.1 update brought back the start button. However, it takes you back to the start Screen (aka the metro screen), which isn’t really what most people wanted. If you RIGHT-click on the start button, you’ll get some of your familiar items from the old start menu, such as Run, Search, Command Prompt, Control […]
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Here are a dozen tricks you can do with your own body. Many of them are extremely useful (number six!). 1. Cure a Tickling Throat When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, especially if it serves as a […]
Chicagomag.com has a handy map showing the locations of Chicago’s new speed cameras. They are like red light cameras but they photograph you and send you a ticket if you are going over the speed limit. The following is information from the city of Chicago, a list of all of the speed camera locations, to […]
Update: Full list here These are the first speed cameras to roll out in Chicago. Here are their locations so you can avoid these areas. Abbott Park, 49 E. 95th St. Chicago (Map) Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences, 3857 W. 111th St. (Map) Curie High School, 4959 S. Archer Ave. (Map) Douglas Park, 1401 […]
Sorry for the downtime, I was having some difficult hardware and network issues. However, what kind of helpdesk would this be if I can’t even fix my own connectivity issues? For a bit more details, let’s just say it started with an overheating router followed by a short-circuit, shenanigan after shenanigan, local DNS not resolving, […]
Hot on the heels of the previous Dizzle Dozen, A Dozen Freeware Sites, here are a dozen freeware windows software: Paint.NET (image editing) 7-Zip (compression) Sumatra (PDF viewer) Audacity (audio editing) Pidgin (instant messenger) Transmission (torrents) Everything (super fast file search indexer) Teracopy (move/copy files with ability to resume) ImgBurn (iso/data cd burner) VLC (media […]
Have you ever tried to do a remote desktop connection in Windows, and get the message that RDP is not enabled? Here is how you can fix that without going all the way to the remote machine. Run regedit, click File > “Connect Network Registry…” Browse or find the Windows machine you are trying to […]
Here are a dozen good and/or decent freeware sites. Please be careful on which download link you are clicking on, because most of the Download Now buttons are really just ads trying to trick you. In order of me remembering them: Softpedia (http://www.softpedia.com) SnapFiles (http://www.snapfiles.com) FileHippo (http://www.filehippo.com) BetaNews (http://fileforum.betanews.com) MajorGeeks (http://www.majorgeeks.com) SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net) DownloadCrew (http://www.downloadcrew.com) […]
Have you ever been browsing the web or typing an email and all of a sudden you get disconnected? Read this multi-part series with an explanation and a solution! Part one of this series delt with resetting your router. Part 2 is resetting your modem/modem-router combo. Your modem is the thing that connects directly to […]
Here is the inside of a computer I’m working on. Symptom: It doesn’t power on. Here is a shot of the power supply unit (PSU): Please try to keep dust and dirt out of your computer. Once a year, open it up and shoot the insides with canned air to get the dirt out. If […]