Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Do the colors in your photos look different on your computer monitor than they appeared on your camera’s LCD display? Or do your printed photos look different than they looked on the screen?
If so, you probably need to calibrate the colors on your monitor. Actually, it’s a good idea to do this every few months even if you don’t notice a problem.
The steps outlined below explain how to calibrate your monitor’s colors. [Read more…]
If you enjoy reading Shakespeare, it might interest you to know that you can read all of his classics online for free.
Our friends at MIT have put all of Shakespeare’s writings online in HTML form and you can read them right in your favorite web browser. You can also print them if you wish.
Simply head over to shakespeare.mit.edu and click on the appropriate links!
As you probably know, most everything one could want to read or experience can be found online today. And if it’s in the public domain (as are the works of Shakespeare), it’s absolutely free for the “taking”!
Whatever you’re looking for can probably be found online within minutes with a quick Google search. Enjoy!
Netflix has just announced that they plan to raise the fees charged for their service by “1 or 2 dollars” per month.
The rate hike will affect new customers only for the time being, but current Netflix subscribers will see their monthly bill increase also “after a generous time period” has elapsed. [Read more…]
We’ve all seen them in our news feeds, and most of us have “Liked” and “Shared” them at one time or another. I’m talking about “Like and Share bait posts”, and Facebook is now starting to penalize Pages that publish them.
Like and Share bait posts typically contain images that consist of a touching photo along with a written message that tons of people are sure to agree with. After all, plenty of folks have a daughter they love with all their heart, right?
The common thread between all of these bait posts is that you will be asked to “Like” and “Share” the post if you agree with the message or find the image to be “touching” in some way.
Sounds harmless, right? Well, it really isn’t. [Read more…]
Do you have a stack of old cassette tapes filled with songs that you’d love to add to your MP3 collection?
If you do, there’s an easy and inexpensive way to convert all those great songs that you thought were forever trapped inside your cassette tapes to MP3 files.
The AGPtek Tape to PC Super USB Cassette-to-MP3 Player Converter connects to your PC via a USB cable. Simply load the software onto your computer, plug the cassette player into a USB port, insert a tape and press the “Play” button. [Read more…]