Modern smartphones can tap into the computing power of giant data centers. Which is why voice recognition and transcription on modern smartphones is accurate, easy to use and often the […]
The Microsoft Windows Search Indexer, which shows up as SearchIndexer.exe in your task manager, has a pretty useful job. It makes your searches in Windows go much faster. However, you’ve […]
The dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) has been around since Windows 95. It’s a dreaded error screen that pops up with little or no warning, letting you know that […]
How often do you think about the power usage of your computer when you’re away from it? While computers have become pretty power-efficient they can still be significant power hogs. […]
Flatbed scanners have been the mainstay of image digitization for decades now. The problem is that you probably don’t have one and you almost certainly don’t have one on you […]
The only thing worse than no internet is slow internet. Waiting for a web-page to load is not only a waste of your time, it might be completely unnecessary. If […]
Smartphones are wonderful devices, but they have actually introduced a few problems for people that have special accessibility needs. For one thing, smartphone interfaces are now strongly visual in nature. […]
The total performance of a computer is the result of various components working together. If one component is too slow, it causes a bottleneck. In any computer, one component will […]
When Microsoft first introduced the ribbon to their Office Suite, it caused quite a bit of division amongst those who spend all day using productivity software. Some people loved it […]
The Windows Task Scheduler is a handy part of the Windows operating system that lets you automate and schedule apps and various scripts to run how and when you want […]
SD cards are mainly used in mobile devices like smartphones, game consoles, cameras and the like. However, we often have to use them on a Windows computer. Either to copy […]
Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to play the same sounds through both your computer’s speakers and a pair of headphones? What about playing two different audio streams through […]
These days computer-generated voices are pretty great! Since the advent of Apple’s Siri with the iPhone 4S, we’ve been spoilt with natural-sounding voice synthesis. That’s all well and good when […]
Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based suite of cloud services. It used to be known as Office 365, but now includes so much more than just the core Office functionality that […]
Video editing is a more popular pastime than ever. Everyone these days seems to have a YouTube channel, and there’s no shortage of people making content with drones and GoPros. […]