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How to Find Cheap Flights Online and Beat the Airlines
Save money on the most expensive part of your vacation

Build a Chatbot with IBM Watson Assistant
Free account allows for up to 10,000 API calls per month
If you’ve used Siri, Alexa or the Google Assistant you’re already familiar with how a chatbot works. It’s a piece of software that lets you interact with your computer by […]

7 Awesome and Free Stock Photo Sites
These huge sites have almost everything you need for everyday use
If you have ever needed a good stock photo for your website, blog, newsletter, poster or anything else, you probably have realized how many sites there are out there that […]

How to Browse and Search Instagram from a PC
Including a trick to get them to show at high resolution
Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, is one of the most popular photo sharing services. The app is available on multiple platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Unfortunately, there is […]

How to Change Album Cover in Facebook
Hint: you can't do it from a mobile phone!
Facebook likes to change things around all the time on their website and smartphone apps, so one day when you go to do something like change an album cover, you […]

5 Free Online OCR Services Tested and Reviewed
Way better than retyping everything in
Have a PDF document or an image that you would like to convert to text? Recently, someone sent me a document in the mail that I needed to edit and […]

How to Make Your Own Animated Movie Online
Two free online tools you can learn in a couple of hours
Looking for a quick way to make an animated movie online? If you want to create one of those nice cartoon-looking presentations where everything is animated, text flies across the […]

Ultimate Guide to Removing or Resetting a BIOS Password
You may have to open up the computer and change the jumper settings
Most personal computers don’t have BIOS passwords because the feature has to be manually enabled by someone. However, a lot of corporate machines have BIOS passwords set for security reasons […]

How to Specify a Starting Point for YouTube Videos
Look cool and tech savvy with this little trick
Have you ever wanted to share a YouTube video with someone, but wished it did not have to start at the very beginning? For example, if you want someone to see […]

How to Make a Desktop or Laptop Act Like a Router
Can be very handy in a meeting room with no WIFI
Looking for a way to convert your laptop or desktop into a wireless router? You may find yourself in a situation where there isn’t a wireless router around for everyone […]

What is a Checksum and How to Calculate a Checksum
A way to ensure the integrity of a file after it has been transferred
Are you wondering what a checksum is? You may have noticed that when you download files from certain websites, they have a very long string of numbers and letters called […]

How to Move Your Mouse Cursor without a Mouse
The next best way if you're not psychic
Recently I wrote an article on how to right-click using your keyboard and many people found it useful. However, I kept getting more questions asking me how they could control the […]

Best Free Public DNS Servers
Some block against phishing or identity theft taboot
Looking to switch from your ISP DNS to another provider? I was surprised to find out that using a free public DNS server from a reputable company was far better […]

10 Best Programs to Replace Notepad
These will make your life a little easier
Notepad is one of my favorite programs in Windows and that’s why Microsoft has always included it in every version of Windows shipped since Windows 1.0, which was almost 30 […]

How to Use MSCONFIG in Windows
A handy little tool that lets you really tweak your system
Windows has all sorts of hidden little utilities that let you configure and modify system settings not normally visible in areas like the Control Panel. One of my favorite tools […]

How to Boost and Increase Your Internet Speed
Meant for users who experienced a sudden slowdown in browsing
Looking for a way to increase your Internet speed without upgrading your ISP Internet plan? Well, Internet speed can depend on a several factors, both internal to the network and […]

How to Find Out Who Owns a Website or Domain
You can also find out when it's going to expire
Wouldn’t it be nice to know who owned a certain website? Previously, I wrote about how you can find out who is hosting a website, but that only tells you […]

How to Record Yourself Online Using a Webcam
Be the star of your own YouTube video
Want to make a video recording of yourself online? For some odd reason, a lot of people still record simple videos using camcorders, transfer them to their computer and then upload […]