I get nagged enough in real life: I don’t need my phone to add to the problem. I, therefore, turn off ALL notifications except for those that have to do with actual phone calls (which are rare) or SMS messages. Apps should go silently about their business, in my opinion....
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Blank Screen on Dell Vostro After Windows 10 Upgrade
This is a problem with the graphics driver and the BIOS. 1. The problem is caused by the computer selecting an external monitor (which may or may not be present) as the main monitor for the laptop. If you have an extra monitor, attach it to the Vostro and the...
Continue reading...How To Turn Off Cursor Animations in Microsoft Office
I don’t know. Maybe some people like how the cursor flies around the screen in Office 2013 applications. I do not. Here’s how to stop the insanity. Open any Microsoft Office 2013 program. Click on the “?” thingy at the top right hand corner of the window. In the search...
Continue reading...Can’t Play YouTube Videos through Facebook Links on Android Phone
My Android (HTC J One) suddenly stopped playing videos when I clicked on Facebook links that went directly to a video. I could play videos from links to websites, but not from links to videos. Here is how I fixed this problem. I closed the Facebook app and opened the...
Continue reading...How to Fix the Code D100 PPPoE Problem After Windows Update
After I updated my computer to Windows 8.1 (from Windows 8.0), I got a garbled error message on my screen that said something about “Code D100” and PPPoE. I couldn’t read the rest of it because it was in incorrectly encoded Japanese, despite the fact that my computer is Japanese....
Continue reading...How to Get Windows Narrator to Stop Reading Your Screen
I just updated my computer to Windows 8.1 and while I was working on a spreadsheet in Google Drive, I suddenly pressed a combination of keys that made my computer start reading out stuff on the screen. Here is how I got it to stop. Press [Windows] and [Enter]. This...
Continue reading...How to Fix the Windows Taskbar Problem in Google Chrome
Sorry to report that this was only a temporary solution. It worked until I turned my computer off, and then it stopped working. If I repeat the procedure, the taskbar comes back again until I turn the computer off. Back to the drawing board… I like to have the maximum...
Continue reading...How to Fix: iTunes Audio Sync Problem
Whenever I try to watch videos through iTunes, the audio goes out of sync. If I open up the file in QuickTime, the problem disappears, but it is annoying to have to open everything one-by-one in QuickTime. I *think* I have found a solution. 1. Close iTunes, Quicktime, and any...
Continue reading...How to Get a Jawbone Jambox to Connect to a Windows 8 Computer
When I tried to connect my Jambox to my Windows 8 machine, at first it didn’t recognize it at all. Then it recognized it as a phone device and asked for a passcode (but wouldn’t let me enter the passcode that Jambox suggests, which is “0000”). I tried connecting the...
Continue reading...Japanese Keyboard Doesn’t Work on English Windows 7 Laptop
I bought a new laptop that was custom made. It had Windows 7 in English, but the keyboard was Japanese (i.e. quotation marks [“], rather than the at sign [@], above the 2). However, the keyboard mapping wasn’t correct. When I pressed shift+2, I got an at sign instead of...
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