Every time I think I have the email-signature-with-image thing licked in Windows Live Mail 2011, a new problem sprouts up. This time around it’s the fact that per my last video on the subject, the auto-add of an image into an email signature adds a very annoying “cool effect”, that being a drop shadow. This time around, I instruct how to get...

It’s generally good advice to change your email password periodically. The Hotmail system unfortunately buries how to do that in a sea of menus – but – there’s an alternative method that’s much faster. Instead of accessing the appropriate menu from within Hotmail to change the password, you’re better off just loading up your...

The problem with email is that even if you’re careful, your account might fall victim to hackers. They employ some rather creative methods in order to steal information. Recently, a relative of mine had their email ‘taken over’ by malicious outsiders. They didn’t really do all that much – mostly just used it to send everyone a false...

Now that you’re all settled in at your new place (and in possession of the hard-earned knowledge that metal and microwaves don’t mix), it’s time to get your internet up and running. The process of getting the internet set up and running is fairly straightforward (just make sure you do a bit of research on all the possible providers before...

There are many Google Chrome extensions that once installed put a button a the top right of the browser. By right-clicking one, there’s the option to hide the button which doesn’t uninstall the extension but just hides its presence. But what if you hide a button accidentally or want one back that you hid? See video below for information on how to do...

Windows 98 may be old, but it happens to be the platform of choice for retro PC gaming because it plays most of the games for MS-DOS, all for Windows 95 and obviously all for Windows 98. Other than gaming however, you’d still want to use your vintage PC rig for basic computing tasks like chat and email. Computers are multi-tasking machines, right?...

There are many reasons to use Skype. Free multi-user audio calls between PCs, video chat with quick and easy connectivity, and (if you’re willing to pay) multi-user video chat and PC-to-phone audio calls. Of course, there are also quite a few reasons why you might not want to use Skype. Aside from its recent acquisition by Microsoft (maybe you’ve got...

PostSecret, the popular tell-all-your-secrets web site, shut down their iPhone app that allowed people to post their secrets 100% anonymously via electronic means (prior to that it was by mail-in postcard only and has gone back to operating that way). Cited reasons for the closure of the app were, "…absolute anonymity made it very challenging to...