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  • Resolving long path errors deleting files in Windows

    One of the most detested situations in just about any version of Windows is to receive the message that the path to a file or folder is too long. There are a number of variations of this message but one that is commonly seen when trying to delete files is “The source filenames are larger…

  • How to stop the popup notifications in Windows 10

    If you have computers that are used continuously or exclusively for presentation then you may want to look at ways of stopping popup or toast notifications in Windows 10. After all one of the most annoying notifications is the one for new updates which is modal and therefore unable to be ignored, then it opens…

  • Using Windows 7 Photo Viewer in Windows 10

    There is a great reason for this 🙂 I like the Windows Photo Viewer which offers one-handed zooming with the mouse wheel and you just use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move to the next image. On the new Windows 10 photo viewer you have to press Ctrl to zoom with the mouse…

  • Try using Queens English, Google!

    Lovely error message on Google Drive this morning Which doesn’t make sense until you realise this operation must have taken place on another computer or in another browser. It wouldn’t take much effort for the phraseology to be less terse and more user friendly, frankly.

  • Tim Cook talks Apple cult BS

    Sorry, a non proprietary computer platform that we can run anything on (except Apple’s cult OS) and that we can fix and repair ourselves isn’t disappearing anytime soon. I guess these guys are so wrapped up in their cult that they believe anything. There are still plenty of people out there who have not sold…

  • This is how Apple rips off governments on tax

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11541189

  • New Uploadr sucks

    Well Flickr have released a new Uploadr tool. They had one some years back that was discontinued and now they have brought out this one that, to be frank, does look a lot like the Google Photos uploader tool. However anyone who is expecting it to be like the previous Uploadr (which was a third…

  • Changing Windows 10 update settings

    If you have Windows 10 Pro, Education or Enterprise, you may yearn for the original (since Windows XP) granularity of Windows Update settings. The GUI offered in 10’s regular Settings screen only gives a limited range of options, and unlike many of the areas of the settings screen, the Control Panel version of the Updates…

  • $1 Iphone scam

    I always thought this was going to be a scam, well it has been shown up to be one as expected because of the false claim that Apple would sell their phones for $1. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11538068

  • Changing text font sizes on Blogger’s “Simple” template

    As you may have noticed most of my blogs use the “Simple” template (this one currently uses “Picture Window”). With various upgrades to Google’s blogger posting system over the years we can set some of the text sizes without having to directly hack the template’s HTML code. One of the changes I have been making…