Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
I don’t know about you, but I really like how Internet Explorer 11 provides a drop-down list of site suggestions when I type a letter into the address bar.
For example, if I type the letter R it’ll display RicksDailyTips.com, RealClearPolitics.com and several other sites that begin with the letter R. To visit a site on the list, all I have to do is click on its URL. [Read more…]
Have you ever wanted to create an ebook to sell or just give away to your friends? Most of us have, and there’s a great web tool called Papyrus that will help you do it for free!
Papyrus is a one-stop web shop that lets you do everything from edit and/or import the text and images for your ebook to create beautiful “covers”. They even assist you in selling your completed ebooks! You can easily create beautiful ebooks in kindle, pdf, and epub formats, which pretty much covers 95% of the ebook formats in use today. [Read more…]
Prior to Windows 8.1, Microsoft Windows included a handy tool that computed something called the Windows Experience Index, a rudimentary calculation of the relative speeds of a particular PC’s various hardware components.
While the WEI wasn’t perfect, it was in fact quite useful. And it was also 100% free. [Read more…]
As many of you may have already noticed, Google recently changed the way Gmail displays images that are attached to the emails in your inbox.
In the past, the email would contain a short notification that the message contains an attachment, along with a link to click to display it. But now images are displayed by default, whether you want to see them or not.
There are several scenarios in which you might not want the messages in your emails to be displayed by default: [Read more…]
The other day I wrote a post in which I discussed how the upcoming USB 3.1 specification is going to call for USB cables that will plug into the socket either way without having to worry about “which way is up”. In my opinion, that will be a huge step forward.
Well, an alert reader sent me an email this morning letting me know that Tripp-Lite already sells a line of reversible USB 2.0 cables that you can buy right now – and they’re surprisingly inexpensive! [Read more…]