Thursday, January 12, 2023

4 Ways to Lock Your Windows Screen

Microsoft Windows
Do you lock your PC Window when you are not at your desk?

Maybe you should.

Your PC probably contains a lot of personal and business information such as financial data, photos, and browsing history.

There are multiple ways to lock your Microsoft Windows screen.  

Do you know them all?

Here are four ways to lock your Windows screen:

1. Windows-L
Press and hold the Windows key and the L key on your keyboard. 

2. Ctrl-Alt-Del
Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys. Select Lock. 

3. Start button
Select the Start button in the bottom-left corner. Select your user icon and then select Lock.

4. Auto lock via screen saver
You can set your PC to lock automatically when the screen saver starts. 
  • Go to Control Panel 
  • Appearance & Personalization 
  • Change screen saver 
  • check the box for On resume, display logon screen. 

Be sure to set a time for how long your PC should wait before starting the screen saver.

That's it!  Enjoy!

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

How to Turn On Stereo Sound for Your iPhone

Apple earpodAre you hearing stereo sound on your iPhone?

You might not be.

By default, Apple turns off stereo sound and leaves audio as mono sound.

This is so that all sounds play in both the left and right ear. That's great for people who have hearing issues.

But what if you want stereo sound?

Here's how to turn it on so that stereo sounds are played through the left and right channels.

  1. Go to Setting
  2. Select Accessibility
  3. Select Audio/Visual
  4. Mono Audio:
        - Turn off to use stereo sound
        - Turn on to combine the left and right channels to play the same sound content.

That's it.  Enjoy your stereo sounds!

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Beware! AI May Take Your Job. Check this Cool Tip on How It Can Happen

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, has long been the subject of Science Fiction.  

But now it's here for everyone.

Several AI projects have been released recently, including ChatGPT.

This AI project will write and create content.  From serious technical code to the humorous poems and songs.

It's a glimpse of what's to come.  

Will we start seeing AI generated news articles?  Computer code?  Malware? 

So, let's try it.  For a sample, asked ChatGPT to write a poem about Robin Williams.


You can try it out here: https://chat.openai.com/

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Monday, January 9, 2023

Draw a Perfect Straight Line, Square or Circle with This Cool Tip

Shapes
When using Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook or PowerPoint, you can add shapes, such as boxes, circles, and arrows, to your documents, email messages, slide shows, and spreadsheets. 

But how do you get a perfect circle rather than an oval?  Or a square rather than a rectangle?  Or a straight line rather than a jagged one?

The secret Cool Tip is to press and hold the SHIFT key when dragging the mouse to create the shape.

Press Shift Key to draw perfect line square circle

Here's how to do it:

  • On the Insert tab, click Shapes
  • Click the shape icon you want to draw, click anywhere in the workspace and drag to place the shape.
  • To create a perfect line, square or circle (or constrain the dimensions of other shapes), press and hold Shift key while you drag to create the shape.


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Sunday, January 8, 2023

Hide Memories from Your Facebook Feed

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Facebook is used by millions of people around the world.  

Users connect to friends to enjoy viewing and posting photos.  

For most people, this is a fun and rewarding experience.

But this can turn around quickly when Facebook shares past posts, called "memories" in your feed that you'd rather no longer see again.

Perhaps it's a photo from an ex-spouse or a dearly departed friend or relative.

You can tell Facebook not to show you these "memories" based on a specific person or on certain days.

Here's the Cool Tip to do it from the web:

Hide Person

  1. Go to facebook.com/memories.
  2. Click Hide People under Settings.
  3. Click Start typing a name... and enter the names of the people you don't want to see memories with.
  4. Click Save.
Hiding memories of someone will hide any tagged photos or posts of that person in Memories.

Hide Certain Days
  1. Go to facebook.com/memories.
  2. Click Hide Dates below Settings.
  3. Click Add New Date Range.
  4. Select a start and end date for the date or dates you don't want to see memories from.
  5. Click Save.

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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Restart Your iPhone with Siri

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It happens to all of us from time to time.  Your iPhone freezes up or acts wonky.

The only solution?

Restart.

But how do you restart an iPhone?

There's the tried and true manual way which I'll explain in a moment.  

But let's just say it requires a bit of manual dexterity to accomplish.

So first I'll share the Cool Tip to do it the easy new way with Siri.

Here's how you do it.

Restart your iPhone - Siri
  • First, say Hey Siri to activate Siri.
  • Next, say Restart iPhone.
  • Then say Yes when Siri prompts you to confirm.

You'll need to be on the latest IOS version16 or greater for this to work.  

And if your iPhone is locked, you'll need to unlock it first.

But Siri is really your friend when you need to restart your iPhone.

And what if you want to restart the "old fashioned" way?

Here's how you do it.

Restart your iPhone - Manually

  • Press and hold either volume button and the side button until the power-off slider appears.
  • Drag the slider, then wait 30 seconds for your device to turn off. ...
  • To turn your device back on, press and hold the side button (on the right side of your iPhone) until you see the Apple logo.

That's it!

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Friday, January 6, 2023

Take a Random Trip with MapCrunch

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Waste a few minutes today visiting a random place in the world with MapCrunch.

https://www.mapcrunch.com/

Just press the Go button and you'll be taken to a new random street view somewhere in the world.

MapCrunch uses Google's Street View photos from around the world to let you visit a random location.  

You can use the arrows to explore your destination.

So enjoy your day and happy travelling!

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