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How to enable ‘Whisper Mode’ on an Alexa device

Posted on October 26, 2023

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Do you ever have any conversations with your Alexa device that you’d prefer that other family members or house guests not be able to hear?

Or do you occasionally prompt Alexa to answer a query late at night only to have her wake up everyone in the house with her reply?

Well, as luck would have it, your Alexa device has a nifty “Whisper Mode” that can prevent others from hearing (and/or being disturbed by) the conversations you have with the device.  [Read more…]

3 ways to recover the files from a dead PC

Posted on October 25, 2023

I receive hundreds of tech questions every week, and the one I seem to get asked most often is how to retrieve the files from the hard drive after a PC goes belly-up.

My answer always depends on which part of the computer has failed.

If the hard drive itself is the component that died, you’ll have to either send the drive off to a data recovery service or purchase a data recovery software utility and attempt to recover the files yourself.  [Read more…]

How to copy a file’s full pathname to the Windows Clipboard

Posted on October 24, 2023

When using Microsoft Windows, there are times when we need to find the entire path to a file’s exact ‘location’ on the hard drive (i.e. the file’s pathname).

For example, some of the tips I post on this blog require entering a file’s full pathname into a text field of some sort.

Back in the Stone Age of personal computing when the DOS operating system ruled the roost, determining a file’s pathname was easy….  [Read more…]

Want to receive an alert every time your blog goes down?

Posted on October 24, 2023

One of a blogger’s worst nightmares is having a busy blog go down and stay down for several hours. That happened to me a while back with this very blog.

I woke up one morning and discovered that RicksDailyTips.com wouldn’t load in my browser. It was completely “dead in the water” as the old saying goes.

I tried loading a couple of other blogs that reside on the same server, only to be met with the same depressing result. The server had obviously gone belly-up at some point during the overnight hours. [Read more…]

5 reasons to convert PDF to Word files in the workplace

Posted on October 24, 2023

When working at an individual or business level, you must always be prepared to complete document and file handling tasks.

Sometimes, you are assigned to convert PDF to Word, Word to PDF, and more to make communication and collaboration more seamless.  [Read more…]

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