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I was very honored to be invited, and even more pleased to attend and speak at the July meeting of the Northwest Florida Military Officer’s Association, or MOA which you can visit online at www.nwfmoa.org. I’d like to extend a special “thank-you” for your gracious hospitality, a great breakfast, excellent camaraderie, and the cool challenge […]

  Q: Is there a way I can disable the auto start on the Adobe flash player video?  – Johnny W.Miramar Beach, Florida A:  Yes there is, Johnny.  However, the method is different depending on which web browser you use, and you neglected to tell me that in your question.  So, instead of answering you […]

I love technology.  Here I am, sitting in an RV in the middle of practically nowhere, working at a battery-powered laptop writing an issue of It’s Geek To Me.  And if that’s not Geeky enough for you, I discovered that if I put my iPhone up in a certain window, I can catch just a […]

Q: Hey guy. Thanks for the great column. Enough warm fuzzies – here’s my problem. I have an Apple IPod that has a considerable number of files stored on it. I use DropBox to transfer files between the IPod and my computer (an HP Pavillion HP which uses MS Windows 7.0). All of my devices […]

Q: When I surf the web using windows Explorer 11 I keep getting a message that says explorer not responding and I have to keep clicking on restore secession. It happens quite often and it’s bugging me. There has got to be some setting I can adjust to help with this problem. – Charles M.Shalimar, […]

Q: I’m a snowbird who visits Destin annually, and I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy reading your column in the Northwest Florida Daily News. Unfortunately the Pittsburgh papers don’t carry your column. I have some questions and will contact you when we return next season. – Dick C.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania A:  Thank-you for […]

Q:  I inherited an HP Altec Laptop with an AMD A6 Processor. We can’t get in without the password. What can do? It has windows 8.1 – Pam B.Perry, Georgia A:  I just happened to have dealt with a similar situation recently, when I was asked to try and “break into” a computer that belonged […]

Q: I am having a problem with Google search. I recently had problems with it when it started coming up with the address bar having an url that started out as: taplika.com with about 50 0r more characters following. The desktop would have place for typing a search term but also a popup that stated […]

Q: Can you tell me how to uninstall Ninja Loader? It snuck in when I was doing research on You Tube. (My fault, I clicked the download button.) According to their site, it is supposed to include an uninstall option; it does not. Various sites suggest registry and start menu manipulations. I’m uncomfortable with that. […]

Q: My family has made your house an annual event at Christmas. Thank you for helping spread the true meaning of Christmas through your displays. I am reasonably computer literate, or in other words, I know just enough to be dangerous! My question: I use McAfee “LifeSafe – Internet Security” including Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Spam, etc. […]