Tips & Tricks

Recently Google has made a change that allows your activity to be viewed on a more broad spectrum. If enabled, your picture and opinion / ratings for products and services could be displayed to the public. By following these simple steps below, you can ensure that you’re face isn’t plastered all over a Google ad.

We created a utility to help determine which files should be examined in more detail after an infection from the CryptoLocker ransomware.

For most of you out there, working on a PC is a daily routine. Whether it be for office use or for entertainment purposes, computers use lots of files to keep everything running. Of course trying to manage all these files can be a pain. As our dependence on technology grows so does the number of files we need to keep track of. Here are a few simple tricks to help keep the chaos in check and save time in the process.

Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world, helping millions stay in touch with each other every day. If you’re like most people then you have people from all parts of your “world” added as a friend. This includes acquaintances, friends, family, friends of the family, people who you attend your church, co-workers and (dun dun dun) bosses. Well there are those times where you want to post a funny (but inappropriate) picture, joke or video that your friends would find hilarious but your family not so much. Well there is a way to keep everyone happy without any bickering from anybody using Facebook custom lists. This guide will show you how to make certain lists for the different people that make up your social network. First, you should think of what lists you want to make. In this example, I will be making a list of my co-workers and showing how you can either just post to that list or even hide an update from the list or lists that you specify.

YouTube is the focal point of sharing anything on the Internet. Whether it be informative or for entertainment, there’s a video for everything! Sometimes when you want to share videos with your friends, you just want to share a certain part. Well Google has you covered and has thought of that exact feature!

There are a lot of websites out there that turn very simple ideas into very useful tools for both productivity and entertainment. This website in particular takes your favorite YouTube videos and repeats them endlessly until you tell it to stop. Originally used for listening to music videos, you can use this service for any video that is on YouTube. The website is called Listen On Repeat and is accessible by visiting http://www.listenonrepeat.com.

For those of us who use computers regularly, keyboard shortcuts make our lives easier every day. From copying and pasting to switching between windows. Keyboard shortcuts are everyone’s secret weapon to keeping productivity high!

Sure capturing your entire screen is nice when you need to see everything at once, but what about those times where you just want to grab certain parts of your screen. Windows 7 has a great tool built-in that let’s you do just that. It’s called the Snipping Tool.

In computing, nothing is more personal than your desktop background. In Windows 7, you can have a slideshow as your background in a few easy steps.

An introduction to the Snap & Shake features in Windows 7. Provided by Learn iT! Computer Software Training. San Francisco, CA. www.learnit.com

In this episode of NCIX Tech Tips, Linus will explain what is an UPS and why it is crucial to select a good UPS (Uninterruptible power supply).

On this edition of NCIX Tech Tips Linus will show you how easy it is to upgrade your memory in 6 easy steps!

Facing problems due to your browsers cache? Save up some of that storage space and follow this guide to learn how to clear the cache in internet explorer.