Sunday, December 21, 2025

Figuring out how to change contact photo on I Phone 15  IOS 26.1

Lots of nuisances when updates are done.

Here's what works:  Gets you up and on to a new contact picture!

  • Open Photos app

  • Open the photo you want to use as the contact profile picture

  • Tap the ‘share’ icon > Assign to Contact > select your desired contact



Wednesday, October 8, 2025

 WANT BIGGER ICONS ON YOUR WINDOWS DESKTOP?

CTRL-ALT- + (-) IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO SMALLER




Wednesday, June 11, 2025

 Well now here it is the start of summer 2025 and I have not made a single post since 2024 - I said I would do better ! Some health issues have kept me from doing a lot I want to do.

Most important things happening to so many these days is getting scammed-unknowingly.

HELP HOW DO I KNOW I'VE BEEN SCAMMED?

Firstly learn who it is that is emailing you.   Look at the email address (which is you)

then hover over it and it will show THE SENDER.  Write down that address and search it in your browser window.    It will show where it came from and who it is.   The biggest thing is not to think YAY You've got mail.....

If it looks suspicious DON'T OPEN IT.

Write down that address which is going to be some crazy .xyz.com address or something you don't recognize.

If you think you got bugged Emisoft has a free online scanner

https://www.emsisoft.com/en/emergency-kit/download/

Run that follow the prompts and let it do the browser scanning....

Stay safe in the Dark Web World

























































Friday, January 3, 2025

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!