Have you ever needed to select all the text and images on a web page or other document at the same time?
How about all the cells in spreadsheet or all the data contained in an input box?
Well, there are several ways to select everything at once, but the fastest and simplest way on a Windows PC is to use the handy keyboard shortcut Ctrl+A.
Mac users can press Command+A to do the same thing.
Have you noticed that the videos in your news feed start playing automatically as soon as they scroll into view?
Personally, I’m not all that fond of auto-playing videos. I’d much rather click the little arrow to manually play the videos I want to watch.
Truth be told, I don’t watch many of them because they are often malicious and dangerous.
But that being said, I do watch them on very rare occasions if it’s something that really interests me AND I completely trust the person or page that posted it.
If you feel the same way I do about auto-playing videos, it’s very easy to disable that feature on Facebook. Just follow the directions below for the device you’re using. [Read more…]
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Question from Robbie: A couple of days ago I installed the Windows 11 Preview update expecting to have 30 days to change my mind like we had when Windows 10 came out.
But then I found out the window for rolling Windows 11 back to Windows 10 is only 10 days, not 30.
The problem I have is I’m going out of town on business tomorrow and I won’t be back until after the end of the month.
By the time I return the 10 day roll-back period will have expired and I’ll be stuck with Windows 11 even if I end up not liking it.
Is there any way to extend the Windows 11 roll-back period to longer than 10 days (to something like a month)? [Read more…]
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Question from Gwen: I recently bought a new computer and found out that I can use my favorite Bluetooth Earbuds with it. Yay me!
My husband saw how well they work together and now he would like to use Bluetooth Earbuds with his computer too.
The thing is his computer doesn’t have Bluetooth in it. Can he add Bluetooth to it some way? He really wants to do it if it isn’t too expensive.
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If you’ve been using Facebook for a while you’ve probably noticed that many people “Like” their own posts just as soon as they post them.
That can be viewed as a form of vanity, right?
I mean, seriously, is it really cool to “Like” your own posts?
Well, truth be told, in most cases it isn’t vanity at work at all. It’s simply a method you can use to jumpstart the engagement you’ll receive on every post you publish on Facebook.