Posts by Justin Culver
Tuesday Tip: 4 Best Practices for Keeping your Information Safe
-Keeping your apps up to date. This is an easy one to miss, and not everyone likes to update when its available for various reasons. Keep in mind the update can be focused on different factors with improving the application. Most importantly, the updates can pertain to security. When a vulnerability or bug is found…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: What Good is a Phone if You Have No Service?
Cell phones have become a standard part of everyday life. We use them for everything from work to gaming. Nothing is more frustrating that having your cell service go out or be too weak or slow to be productive. In this short article I will go over some tips and tricks to increase you cell…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Do You want to free up space on your laptop or PC? Here is how to uninstall those old unused applications.
There are times when our computers start to run slow as well as run out of space. We then think the solution is either restarting the computer or deleting our files. However, we tend to forget about old applications or programs that not only take up a lot of space but could be running in…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Use Google to Search Content from a Specific Website
Many people know about the versatility of the search engine Google. But did you know you can search for queries on a specific website directly from google. Next time try out search engine command “Site:”. To do so you’ll type “site:” the name of the website you want to search without any spaces and quotations…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: You No Longer Need to Guess When to Leave
Have you ever had plans that were at least an hour away and wanted to estimate a good time to leave? No need to guess anymore! Did you know that Google Maps allow you to set a departure or arrival time when looking for directions? You can set an arrival time and know when to…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Convert Photo Slides Into Digital Photos with SlideScan by Photomyne
If you are an old timer like me, you know what a photo slide is. For those of you that don’t know what a photo slide is, there is an image below. I became interested in this app, because my brother had mentioned he was going through boxes and boxes of old slides my parents…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Google Lens
Google Lens is an app that allows you to interact and learn about the world around you through your phone’s camera. Instead of attempting to describe what you’re seeing to a google search: “tall pointy building, NYC” – you can point your Google Lens at the building, and it will identify the building name for…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Secure your Venmo account
Venmo is a payments service platform used by many to pay for select approved business services and send money to family and friends. It’s similar to PayPal with the added feature of allowing users to; share, ‘like’ and express themselves when making a payment. Although convenient, its default settings are not set to be very…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts
Finding shortcuts and easier ways to do things on the computer is the way of life. There are too many shortcuts to list them all, but using these common and not so common shortcuts may save you time, energy and possibly a headache. Listed below are a few Keyboard Shortcuts that can be really beneficial…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Amazon Sidewalk
Amazon Sidewalk is a program Amazon is rolling out that will create a mesh network of all capable Amazon devices; devices like Echo, Ring Security Cams, outdoor lighting, motion sensors, and Tile trackers. Sidewalk will allow these devices to connect to wireless networks and boosts the power of the signal. This feature is turned on…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Manage your Google Chrome Tasks
Do you use Google Chrome? Does it take up a lot of your computer’s resources? You may have opened your Windows Task Manager in the past and noticed how much CPU and Memory Google Chrome uses. Did you know that Google Chrome has its own built in Task Manager? Use Shift + ESC while…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Access your Computer Remotely using your Phone!
Did you know you can access your computer using your smartphone? I have been in situations where I needed to print a document at Office Depot, but I forgot to email the document from my home computer. It would be a waste of time and gas to drive back home to the email document. Fortunate…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: The Lookup Feature on iPhones
Did you know that there’s a look up feature on the iPhone? Personally, I am big on creating to-do lists and mapping out finances in the note’s app on my phone. It’s easy to manage and provides me with quick access. Whenever I have a long equation or if I am unfamiliar with a word,…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Troubleshooting Your AirPods
AirPods are the best. I know I use mine all the time for phone calls, at the gym and for my nightly walks. Then something frustrating happened, one Pod would just stop working and then that same Pod gradually kept decreasing in sound. For a while, I thought I was going deaf until I started…
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