TechByter Worldwide offers high-tech content in plain English. Programs are approximately 20 minutes long are listed by date and topic. (YYYY.MM.DD: Topic)
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The podcast of the Canterbury Episcopal Student Center at Texas A&M and Blinn College. Live from College Station, Texas. Gig ‘em! Hosted by Rev. Rich Nelson, Campus Missioner.
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This podcast briefly reviews Daily 5 centers in kindergarten.
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Your friends and family expect you to bring your camera to birthday parties and holiday dinners. You pick up your camera before the broom when your kids spill flour all over the kitchen floor. You're the family photographer. Every other week, I share my conversations with photographers about their work and their families. How can we take better photos of our family life? Why are we taking all these photos in the first place?
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-08-16: Will Canva Destroy Adobe? Short Circuits.
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Canva, especially with its acquisition of Affinity’s Photo, Design, and Publishing apps, is a powerful competitor for graphic design, but don’t expect it to unseat Adobe anytime soon, if ever. In Short Circuits: Artificial intelligence for visual tasks is advancing so fast that any examination of the current state of affairs is nearly pointless, bu…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-08-09: When You Can’t Find A Needed File, Summon Agent Ransack. Short Circuits.
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As our computers become repositories for ever increasing numbers of files, sometimes it’s hard to find the one you’re looking for even if you try to keep them organized. The free version of Agent Ransack can save the day. In Short Circuits: Although the risk of being victimized by a SIM-swap scam is small, the damage done by such an attack could be…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-08-02: Microsoft And Adobe: Evil Empires? Short Circuits.
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Microsoft and Adobe are gigantic, but are they as evil as some would have us believe? Big doesn’t always mean bad, so let’s take a look. In Short Circuits: What might the prosecution say in making the case that Adobe, Microsoft, or both are evil. I tried to work out what cases might be made.By Bill Blinn
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-07-26: Spotting Fake Images, Videos, and Information Is Harder Than Ever. Short Circuits.
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Doctored images, deep-fake videos, and disinformation have us surrounded, so now it’s time to identify the ways we can protect ourselves from the lies. In Short Circuits: It’s still easy to spot some manipulated photos or videos, but increasingly we’re going to need artificial intelligence to help us identify the dreck that has been created by arti…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-07-19: Aomei Backupper Pro Provides Comprehensive Backup. Short Circuits.
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Even if you use an online backup service, it probably doesn’t capture the operating system and the Registry. An image backup application is needed if you want to avoid having to reinstall Windows and all applications if the disk drive fails. The free Aomei Backupper application may be sufficient. In Short Circuits: You can have absolute madness on …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-07-12: Passkeys Are The Future. Short Circuits.
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No matter how long or complex a password is, it’s useless if a scammer gains access to it. One of the most beneficial aspects of passkeys is that they can be compromised only if the crook gains access to the computer or smart phone where they are stored. In Short Circuits: Microsoft Outlook is facing more competition than it has seen in quite some …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-07-05: Faster DNS (May) Mean Faster Internet. Short Circuits.
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The domain name service you use may have an effect on the speed with which web pages load, but there are other reasons to examine the DNS you use now and possibly change it. In Short Circuits: When you’re giving away or selling a computer or disk drive, think about the files that were on the computer. Just deleting them doesn’t really remove the da…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-06-28: Artificial Intelligence Versus Real Stupidity. Short Circuits.
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Panicking pundits pummel Photoshop prematurely. If you listen to or read some of what passes for thoughtful reporting, you might be convinced that Adobe is a demon that must be eliminated. I disagree. In Short Circuits: Windows 7 introduced a handy new way to share files with other local users, but HomeGroup wasn’t widely used and it was discontinu…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-06-21: Replacing Multiple Hard Drives With One. Short Circuits.
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When I noticed a disk drive problem early one Saturday, I decided it was time to replace an aging cabinet filled with aging disk drives. A significant performance boost was a welcome extra. In Short Circuits: Microsoft would like you not to use cleanup applications such as CCleaner because they might damage the Registry, but now they’re offering a …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-06-14: Switching From CrashPlan To Backblaze. Short Circuits.
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Despite having used CrashPlan for the past eight years and still feeling that it is a viable online backup service, I have switched to Backblaze. In Short Circuits: Starting in less that two weeks, Facebook will begin using your public posts, photos, and chatbot iterations to train its AI. • Libraries are among my favorite institutions because of t…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-06-07: Artificial Intelligence Is Suddenly Everywhere. Short Circuits.
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This week is all about artificial intelligence, starting with the many ways AI can be used to improve images and sometimes create scenes that do not exist in real life. There are also applications for old and new motion pictures. In Short Circuits: We’ll move on to how AI might soon be used to help applications like Waze and Google Maps evaluate mo…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-05-31: Updating Windows To Version 24H2. Short Circuits.
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Many Windows 11 users will be offered an update to Windows 11 version 24H2 between now and the end of the year. As is usual with Windows, the update brings both useful new features and a certain number of annoyances. In Short Circuits: Actions by three states probably kept internet service providers from doing their worst when the FCC eliminated ne…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-05-24: Excire Search’s April Update Adds Features Introduced In Excire Foto. Short Circuits.
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An update to Excire Search brings the ability to look for photos using a text description, as introduced in Exicre Foto, to the company’s plug-in for Adobe Lightroom Classic. In Short Circuits: Fake reviews, scam products, and questionable sellers can all be made to look like real bargains. Fakespot by Mozilla helps you sort the truth from the lies…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-05-17: The Road To Secure Privacy: You Can’t Get There From Here. Short Circuits.
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Ensuring that your computer is safe, private, and secure is easy enough, but doing so will make the computer virtually unusable. Let’s consider some options that help without hindering, at least not too much. In Short Circuits: Windows computers use the New Technology File System, which was new in 1993, but it’s not a good choice for devices that m…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-05-10: Audacity Adds AI, But Sometimes It Becomes Confused. Short Circuits.
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Some remarkable capabilities have been added to Audacity, but it’s still not a contender to take Audition’s place for audio productions. In Short Circuits: It’s not a good idea to skimp on the devices you use to interact with your computer. One or more properly placed monitors, a mouse that fits comfortably in your hand, and a keyboard that doesn’t…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-05-03: Be Your Own Tech Support Genius. Short Circuits.
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When something goes wrong with your computer, it may be easier, faster, and less frustrating to fix it yourself instead of dealing with tech support. In Short Circuits: Every computer screen is different and your vision is unique to your eyes. That’s why it’s a good idea to use Microsoft’s ClearType Text Tuner. • You’ll start to see computers being…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-04-26: Has Your Facebook Account Been Hacked (Yet)? Short Circuits.
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A surprising number of Facebook accounts are being stolen and recovering them is difficult, if not impossible. That’s why it’s better to avoid trouble in the first place. In Short Circuits: Although your internet service provider includes domain name services, there’s a good reason to use one of several alternate services. • Efforts by the federal …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-04-19: What Happens When Your Windows 10 Computer Expires Next Year? Short Circuits.
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You still have about a year and a half to decide what you’ll do when Microsoft ends support for Windows 10. There are several choices, but not all options will work for all users. Let’s take a look at some that will keep the computer out of the trash. In Short Circuits: Although Microsoft has added a file renamer function to PowerToys, it won’t be …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-04-12: Bitdefender Tries A New Approach. Short Circuits.
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Romania-based security company Bitdefender offers a comprehensive protective suite for Windows and MacOS computers, as well as IOS and Android phones. The package includes enough licenses for all devices used by everyone in the family unless you have an exceptionally large family or everyone has five or six devices. In Short Circuits: Your internet…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-04-05: Making Virtual Desktops Your Friend. Short Circuits.
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The virtual desktops feature that was added to Windows 10 and improved in Windows 11 can help organize the computer when you need to work on more than one task at a time. In Short Circuits: Artificial intelligence is now being used to improve audio recordings by removing flaws such as background noise and room echo. Despite being new, the results a…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-03-29: Operating System Features You May Be Missing. Short Circuits.
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If you regularly mutter to your computer that it doesn’t do something you want it to do or doesn’t do something the way you want it to, stop for a moment and investigate. There’s a good chance that the computer can accommodate your desires. In Short Circuits: Anyone who has trouble finding where TV programs they want to watch are streaming, or who …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-03-22: Avoiding The Big Phish. Short Circuits.
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One of the most common ways that people are victimized online involves the victims failing to recognize social engineering and giving their login credentials to scammers. In Short Circuits: Facebook accounts are filled with gold that scammers like to mine. There’s a quick and easy way to view what crooks see so that you can modify your account to m…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-03-15: Some Reviews Say Fruust.com Is A Scam. Short Circuits.
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When a charge for a service I didn’t recognize showed up in an alert from my bank, I found that I had been signed up for a video streaming service I’d never heard of. Eliminating the service was easy enough, but a lot of people have reported terminating it was difficult. In Short Circuits: Even those of us who are not typographers, graphic designer…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-03-08: Exposure X7 Is Still A Good Choice. Short Circuits.
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Exposure hasn’t had an upgrade from the X7 version, which was released in 2021, but it’s still a good choice both as a standalone application and as a plug-in for Lightroom Classic. In Short Circuits: Speaking of golden oldies, I encountered a little connector that could be used to join lots of devices two years ago. It saved the day a week ago whe…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-03-01: Dealing With A Hijacked Facebook Account. Short Circuits.
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A hijacked Facebook account can be a lot of fun, but only if you have a most peculiar understanding of the term “fun”. It wasn’t my account, but I had to deal with the repercussions of a hack recently. In Short Circuits: The technology that powers GPS, Bluetooth devices, and other modern high technology was invented 83 years ago by someone consider…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-02-23: Maybe It’s Time To Re-evaluate Streaming Services. Short Circuits.
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Which is better, cable or streaming? There are lots of variables and cable is perfect for some people while streaming is the winner for others. After switching to streaming three years ago, now seemed a good time to re-evaluate. In Short Circuits: You might have some old digital photos that would benefit greatly from today’s AI-powered applications…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-02-16: Excire Search 2024 Finds Photos Fast. Short Circuits.
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The more digital photos you have, the harder it is to find the one you’re looking for. Excire Search, a plug-in for Lightroom Classic, makes the process much easier. In Short Circuits: Libre Office is the ideal office suite for those who are unable or unwilling to pay a monthly subscription fee. The latest version, though, has a surprising number. …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-02-09: Some Of My Favorite Things Are Free. Short Circuits.
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Free, open-source software is often viewed as being second rate when compared to commercial software, but sometimes the best application actually does cost nothing. In Short Circuits: When something starts with Windows, but you don’t want it to, finding a way to make it stop can be a challenge. Autoruns fixes that. • Phones no longer have dials, bu…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-02-02: Adding Windows 11 To A Reluctant Windows 10 PC. Short Circuits.
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Windows 11 cannot be installed on certain computers, mainly older models that lack sufficient hardware, but it is possible to force-install Windows 11 on computers that would fail otherwise because they lack hardware security features. In Short Circuits: With so many free email clients, you might wonder why anyone would be willing to pay $60 per ye…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-01-26: Maybe It’s Time To Upsample Some Of Your Old Digital Photos. Short Circuits.
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Anyone who has digital photos that are more than a decade old could improve their quality substantially with an application that uses artificial intelligence to fill in details that don’t exist in the originals. In Short Circuits: Speaking of AI, if you’re trying to keep up with what’s new, you may suspect that it’s difficult and maybe impossible. …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-01-19: Using Sysinternals Process Monitor and Process Explorer To Solve Problems. Short Circuits.
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The Sysinternals suite of utilities has been around since the 1990s and has been part of Microsoft since 2006. More than 70 utilities make Sysinternals essential for all Windows computer users and today we’ll take a look at just two of them. In Short Circuits: Believable sound effects are essential for motion pictures and podcasts, but it’s not an …
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-01-12: Where Did All My Disk Space Go? Short Circuits.
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We don’t run out of disk space as often now as we did in the early days, but you might wonder about discarding some old junk even if space isn’t a significant problem. Several utilities are available to help you identify the junk. In Short Circuits: Scammers work hard to earn your trust and then steal your money. A Washington Post article about a r…
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TechByter Worldwide 2024-01-05: Use Microsoft’s PC Manager For Quick System Management Tasks. Short Circuits.
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Microsoft’s new PC Manager takes the place of some other utilities such as CCleaner and offers quick, easy access to built-in Windows functions that are often several layers deep in Settings or the Control Panel. In Short Circuits: If you’ve ever wished you could unsend an email because you forgot to add an attachment or make an important point, Se…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-12-15: Excire Foto Finds Needles In Haystacks. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Because digital photographs are free, we take a lot of them and that can be a problem when we want to find one particular image among tens of thousands on the computer. A new version of Excire Foto adds artificial intelligence that helps a lot. In Short Circuits: Anyone who operates a web domain on one of the big hosting services may occasionally h…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-12-01: How To Improve The Windows 11 Start Menu. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Like the Windows 11 Start Menu or hate it, Start11 from Stardock can make it better. Maybe you’d like the start menu to work the way it did in Windows 7, 8, or 10. Maybe you like the Windows 11 approach, but would like to add some features. That’s the point of Start11. In Short Circuits: Python is a popular programming language. It’s powerful, but …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-11-17: Turning Your Computer Into A Television. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Playing DVDs and Blu-ray discs on a computer can sometimes be better than watching them on a television, but Microsoft doesn’t include a player with Windows, and the Media Player app is quite limited. Other options exist, but some are pricey. One is free. In Short Circuits: Even if you use just a single chat application, taking a look at Beeper is …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-11-10: Keeping A Computer Up To Date. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago. Twenty Years Ago.
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Development cycles for large applications once were frequently 18 months. Now it’s a rare day that we don’t receive a bug fix, security update, or feature release for at least one application. Keeping up is a challenge. In Short Circuits: Heat is the enemy of electronic devices and notebook computers are highly vulnerable. I recently added a device…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-11-03: Adobe Firefly’s Amazing Artificial Intelligence. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Artificial intelligence is something Adobe has been working on for several years and this year’s advances mark the beginning of what seems likely to be an explosion of advanced capabilities. In Short Circuits: Adobe pointed to some of its plans for future products at the annual Max conference in Los Angeles. The sneak peeks could easily be mistaken…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-10-27: Use AeroAdmin To Help Others And For Remote Access. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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AeroAdmin is an excellent choice if you need to help friends or family solve problems with their computers and when you want to log onto your computer when you’re not in front of it. In Short Circuits: Artificial intelligence can create text for you, and it can paraphrase your text. Is it worth trying an application such as QuillBot to see how good…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-10-20: Windows Copilot Is Live, So Are You Using It? Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Copilot is the most significant new feature in the Windows 11 Fall update, version 23H2. If your computer hasn’t been updated to 23H2, you can force the update or obtain some of the new features even without updating. In Short Circuits: Opera is a good browser that I’ve recommended several times in the past 25 years, and I still do recommend it, bu…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-10-13: Photoshop’s Newest Features Didn’t Wait For Max. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Adobe didn’t wait for the annual Max conference to roll out some of the new features for Photoshop and other apps. Generative Fill and Generative Expand are still resolution limited, but they are already surprisingly useful. In Short Circuits: Printers have long been the bane of IT support, and Microsoft has plans to make printers a bit less vexing…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-10-06: A Long Week Of Short Stories. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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The main article is really three short pieces: One about PowerToys Run, a quick and easy way to start an application or launch a search; the next about the now limited “unlimited” hosting plan from Bluehost; and finally a fond farewell to WordPad. In Short Circuits: Living like it’s 1983. If you loved WordStar, you can now install WordTsar and try …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-09-29: Freely Editing Videos. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Even basic smart phones can create remarkably good videos and more people are editing videos at home. As a result, there are lots of applications, both free and paid, designed to take the place of editing suites that once cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to build. In Short Circuits: New features in Adobe’s audio editor, Audition, are rare, but…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-09-22: Jotti’s Malware Scan Averts Disasters. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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It’s a good idea to check out any file you receive as an attachment, even if the file seems to have come from someone you know. Jotti’s free malware scan will show the file to more than a dozen antivirus applications so you can make an informed decision. In Short Circuits: Sometimes modifying a computer setting fixes a problem even when you’re abso…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-09-15: Ground News Helps You Sort Fact From Fiction. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Being able to tell the difference between truth and lies is increasingly difficult, especially on the internet, but also with organizations that claim to be presenting facts. We can’t escape bias, but we can at least try to be aware of it. In Short Circuits: Mouse Without Borders, a relatively new feature in Microsoft’s PowerToys utilities, solves …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-09-08: Adobe Express: Quick, Easy, and Fun. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Whether you’re a graphic designer or not, Adobe Express has something for you. Professionals can use it to give themselves more time for custom creativity and non-designers can leverage Express to perform tasks they couldn’t do by themselves. In Short Circuits: Although Python has been available as a paid add-in for Excel, it will soon be included …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-09-01: Thinking About Buying a New Computer? Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Buying a new computer includes some of the same processes and decisions needed when buying a new car, and it’s important to base the buying decision on facts instead of on emotions. In Short Circuits: Sometimes antique computer-users like me say old DOS computers seemed faster than today’s Windows machines. That’s not entirely inaccurate and the Wi…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-08-25: A Disk Partition Manager Can Be Helpful Even If You Think You Don’t Need One. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Disk partition managers are essential tools for technicians, but they can also be useful for any computer user. Third-party partition managers include more features than the one that came with your computer and might be free. In Short Circuits: The Employee Retention Credit Act was established at the height of the covid pandemic to help businesses …
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-08-18: Thunderbird’s Attractive Face Is Just Part Of What’s New. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Mozilla has been working on a new version of Thunderbird for a while and the combination of improvements, new features, and ongoing debugging make it well worth looking at regardless of which email application you’re using now. In Short Circuits: Sometimes Microsoft does something so astonishingly ignorant that it’s hard to believe management was a…
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TechByter Worldwide 2023-08-11: How Much Internet Speed You Need And How To Find Out If You’re Getting It. Short Circuits. Twenty Years Ago.
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Internet access is slower and more expensive in the United States than in many other countries, so it’s important to figure out how much speed you need and then to confirm that you’re getting what you pay for. In Short Circuits: The Windows package manager, WinGet, provides access to more apps and utilities than the Microsoft Store does, but it’s a…
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