You might have heard about a movement called “Right to Repair”, but what is it? This is something that has gained significant traction in recent years and has come about primarily from smartphone and laptops that just couldn’t be repaired because the cases and/or components…
Author: Mike Halsey
While Windows 11 allows you to control your personal data privacy when using your PC, there are additional settings in the Microsoft Edge web browser you will almost certainly want to look at. You access these within Edge by clicking the menu (Three Dots) icon…
We’re all becoming much more aware of our online privacy, and how major corporations have turned us into the product. Fortunately Windows 11 makes it really easy to manage your privacy. In Settings, navigate to Privacy & security and then you will see a General button in the Windows…
With more people working from home on a regular basis, it’s important to be able to separate the work you have to concentrate on from more relaxed daily activities such as shopping, web browsing, and perhaps a little light gaming. Fortunately Microsoft have thought of…
Written – February 2022 Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler of Jewish heritage in Vienna in 1914, the Hollywood starlet Hedy Lamarr could seem an unlikely choice for my all-time hero of technology, but you might be surprised to discover that her legacy lives on in…
Written – February 2022 Over the last few years the words Bitcoin and Crypto Currency have entered the public lexicon. Recently they’ve been joined by NFTs (Non Fungible Tokens, with fungible being another word for replaceable) with these being used by people to buy “real”…
The clock and calendar on the Windows 11 can actually do much more than you might think. You open the calendar by clicking the date and time in the bottom right corner of the desktop, on the Taskbar. The standard view shows you the current…
Sometimes you need to take a screenshot of your Windows 11 desktop, or of an open app, so that you can send it to someone, or use it for a specific purpose. Windows 11 gives you three different and easy ways to do this. The…
Sometimes you need to know which version of Windows 11 you are using. Perhaps you want to know if you’re using the Home or Pro version, or maybe you want to know if you’re using the most up-to-date version because you’ve been asked by somebody…