Bringin out the old and redoing the new! (closet computer!)

 Hi -all those who check this weblink--it has been months since I have posted and I am sorry for that but promise to do better in the new year just upon us.

A coupla days ago I was digging in my computer business stash leftover from when I repaired, built, and renewed PCs....I found about a 15 year old Dell laptop that someone was going to throw out and I said "I'll take it!" 

Well, it has been sitting for a few years now-I actually updated it in October of 2023 up to current updates and programs.    So I got it out again and went to run updates on it and worked on it for literally hours!!!! It was so slow and I thought, why am I doing this?   

Anyway I got out a distro of Linux Mint "Virginia" 23.1. and said "goodbye to Windows 10 " on that PC...within a few minutes I had the new OS running like a charm.   One thing Linux does is automatically installs all the drivers needed for a PC including printers!   And you don't need antivirus or anything it comes with the full package of programs to do everything!    Even the battery was draining heavily when I had Windows on there and with the Linux setup it had a 4 hour battery time which is remarkable for old PC.  Also the wireless on it hooked immediately to my system and was so fast also the video stuff ran great!

I downloaded the distro from  Linux Mint 21.3

  https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=311

wrote it to a USB stick (info on this page)

followed the directions and booted from the USB and within 15 minutes had a fresh new operating system fully compatible with Windows programs. 

Well, that's my start to the new year.   Happy New Year Ya'll!

Here we go again with images not showing up that you have installed via java script or HTML on your blog/website.

Sometimes they have script in them that the Ad Blocker picks up on 

and it will stop the image from appearing...IE the rotating World Visitors Globe 

that I have on this blog at top right.

Disable the ad blocker only on this website as I do not 

participate with any Ad sense or Google ads anyhow for this reason.

Glad I was able to snag the answer on the 

Web to figure these things out!

OOPS IMAGE FAILED TO LOAD when opening GMAIL-Fixed

 Well, it is now many tries to fix this quirky thing.

but finally I got it!

it has to do with the background photo/theme in your GMAIL APP on computer or phone.

so go into your "themes" and add a theme or change a theme and save it-you will then see it in the background of all your emails....

when you go to your mail again the OPPS disappeared!!

that's all there is to it....

Happy world wide webbing today!

Using the Brave Browser How to's

when you install the Brave browser you will notice the toolbar on the top is small and also the tabs are small.....no one seems to have the answer to make it bigger and easier to see.

well here is what to do

 THE BRAVE BROWSER-CHECK IT OUT!!

                                    https://brave.com/download/

 

go into "display" in your Windows settings.

you will see "scale and layout"

change the text and apps and other items to 125% 

that will make all things bigger and easier to read in the very fast and good Brave Browser

if the wording is too big but you want the toolbar and icons to be bigger to into the  "hamburger" in upper right corner - slick on it

go down to zoom and use arrows to adjust zoom size to suit you

 Here's a tidbit.

If you want to use Microsoft Office for free online

(and as always you have the option to buy it, but you get 5 GB of space for free

if you create an account. )

The entries on your keyboard are

Ctrl > Shift >Windows key >Alt

It will pull up the page MS Office  

Happy Day on the World Wide Web!

 To rid your PC of "recents"   here's the trick

W + R

type in "recent"

CTRL + A

then hit Delete

Error Code 232011 How to Fix

 If you  get this on a web page that you are viewing:    ERROR CODE 232011

Simple fix on Firefox

CTRL SHIFT DELETE

EMPTY HISTORY

LAST HOUR

HIT ENTER

Refresh page

Basically its a video problem and cache file issue...

by clearing this out the error is gone...

Simple Screenshot Access

 Want to take a screenshot in part or whole of what you are looking at on your desktop?

Press Win + Shift + S simultaneously to see options to instantly screenshot your entire workspace, just one window, or a free form selection drawn with your mouse. Your screenshot is then copied and ready to be pasted into a web form or image editor.

How to change the bookmark toolbar size and fonts in Firefox-(for those who need to see better!)

 

To increase the text size in the user interface parts of Firefox, we (Mozilla) currently only have one setting option, which is the global scaling factor. Here's how you can adjust that if you want to give it a try:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.

More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future. We have had this setting for a long time so I feel comfortable mentioning it.

(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste layout.css.devPixelsPerPx and pause while the list is filtered

Firefox should list one preference with the value -1.0

-1.0 means to follow the system level scaling. You can enter new (positive) values here to set your own scaling. Please note that the values will be doubled for a Retina display.

(3) Double-click the preference to display an editing field, and change the value to either

• 1.5 for non-Retina display
• 3.0 for Retina display

Then press Return or click the blue check mark button to save the change.

That should scale the entire browser to 150% of the default size.

You can adjust upwards or downwards as needed. Please be very careful not to use a value below 1.0 or it may become too difficult to read/fix. In case of emergency, click the reset button at the right end of the row.

Can you find a size that is comfortable for the toolbars/sidebar? Hopefully so. Then you can tweak the page zoom setting on the Preferences page to make the content area a comfortable size. 

(courtesy Mozilla Firefox Moderators)

 Do you want to check to see if a website you are on is up and running?

Here is a very useful site for that

 Hello finally I am getting up to posting on my blog again  Has been a busy year with health recovery etc...I have updated some things on the blog also.

For those of you (like me) who have an IPAD/IPHONE and have had a problem getting your G mail contacts to transfer over the to them ....I  have the answer....

Courtesy HOW TO GEEK

Full on instructions with photos!