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• Touchscreen misregisters point-and-clicks

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:10 Fred Langa Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  ISSUE 18.12 • 2021-04-05

  LANGALIST

  

  By Fred Langa

  Touchscreens are ubiquitous and usually reliable, but when one malfunctions, even simple pointing and clicking can become an exercise in extreme frustration.

  Here are the likely causes of touchscreen miscalibration, and several easy ways to get things working properly again.

  Plus: How to protect yourself from Windows’ dangerous, semi-secret back door!

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.12.F (2021-04-05).

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• AskWoody Improvements

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:08 Will Fastie Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  EDITORIAL

  

  By Will Fastie, Editor

  We continue to make changes to AskWoody, to make it easier and faster for you to use.

  Susan Bradley and I have been subscribers to AskWoody and its predecessors from the get-go. And we’ve both been contributors, Susan for a very long time and I for about a year. We’ve been on the outside looking in, but that’s been reversed: we’re now the ones behind the curtain.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.12.F (2021-04-05).

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• The best laptop docking stations and hubs for 2021

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:06 Brian Livingston Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  More and more of us have been spending part of our time working in a business office and part of our time in a home office (which may sometimes be called “the kitchen table”).

  Even if you work primarily at home, there are always times when you want to work on your laptop in a hotel room or maybe that beach house you like to retreat to on weekends.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).

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• The problem with copyright: fair use

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:04 Max Stul Oppenheimer Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  LEGAL BRIEF

  

  By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

  All might be fair in love and war, but not in copyright

  If you think about copyrights for a moment, it might occur to you that they are unconstitutional. After all, the First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Yet there it is, in Title 17 of the U.S. Code: a law saying that Congress has given copyright owners the power to stop others from copying or publicly performing their copyrighted words.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).

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• Take control of your privacy – iPhone & iPad

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:02 Nathan Parker Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  APPLE

  Take control of your privacy – iPhone & iPad

  

  By Nathan Parker

  Apple heavily promotes its devices and services as being focused on your privacy, especially for those who heavily use Apple’s built-in apps and services.

  Apple has a prominent page on its site devoted to its view of privacy.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).

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• It’s time for 20H2

  Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:00 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Are you ready for 20H2? I am!

  If your computer hasn’t yet been offered 20H2, you aren’t alone. I’ve seen several laptops, including high end Dell gamer-style models, that haven’t been offered 20H2. A notification is shown in the bottom corner indicating that the system is coming to the end of support but when you click on the notice, nothing happens.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).

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• MS-DEFCON 3: Patching is unclear

  Posted on March 26th, 2021 at 01:00 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  ISSUE 18.11.1 • 2021-03-26

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Proceed with caution.

  I’m separating my patching guidance into two categories: one for business users and one for consumer or home users. And I’m lowering our MS-DEFCON level to 3. We’re not out of the March woods yet, but things are a bit better.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Alert 18.11.1 (2021-03-26).

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• LinkedIn deliberately scrambles résumé PDFs, experts say

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:08 Brian Livingston Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  ISSUE 18.11 • 2021-03-22

  The AskWoody Newsletters will not be published on March 29, 2021. We’ll see you again on April 5, 2021.

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  LinkedIn — the foremost social network for working professionals, with 760 million members in more than 200 countries — constantly changes the format of its PDF résumés to make it hard for companies to search for possible job applicants, according to human-resource consultants.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.11.F (2021-03-22).

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• A wide-ranging trio of questions

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:06 Fred Langa Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  LANGALIST

  

  By Fred Langa

  This week’s top reader-submitted questions cover quite a spread of topics, starting with some unexpected lithium-ion battery behavior.

  Then we examine the reasons for a reader’s deep misgivings about the safety and reliability of cloud-storage services, and we’ll wrap up with a super-simple, three-click solution for a notebook PC whose unplugged performance is simply too slow for practical use.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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• Freeware Spotlight – Distant Desktop

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:04 Deanna McElveen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  Best Utilities

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  It’s unfortunate that I paid for an annual renewal of Team Viewer just before I found Distant Desktop.

  I might have made a different decision. This newly discovered remote-control software is totally free for personal and commercial use, AND it has everything I use and love.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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• How to set up and use a Microsoft account in Windows

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:02 Lance Whitney Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  MICROSOFT ACCOUNTS

  

  By Lance Whitney

  A Microsoft account offers you a single sign-on method to log in to Windows on any computer.

  A Microsoft account is a quick and convenient way to use the same credentials to sign in to different Microsoft applications and services. This type of account can connect you to Office, Outlook, OneDrive, Skype, the Microsoft Store, and Xbox Live. A Microsoft account is required for you to access certain services such as Office on the Web and, more importantly for this series, OneDrive.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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• Dealing with printers

  Posted on March 22nd, 2021 at 01:00 Susan Bradley Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Keeping printers up to date

  Once upon a time, I purchased an HP LaserJet 4L printer that would just keep on printing, year after year, until the plastic door on the top of the printer finally broke off. After my initial installation, the printer driver was never updated.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.11.0 (2021-03-22).

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