“Read the Manual!” First answer to your technical question. If you’ve ever asked a technical question online before you’ve probably come across this at least once. You don’t know how to do something so you ask online and only get…
RSS is a tool that solves one of our greatest problems in our connected world: information overload. What is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a standard protocol for websites to share information with other sites and applications. This is…
Sometimes we need to know our IP Address or troubleshoot internet connection issues. How do we do that? Well we have a handy tool built into Windows, ipconfig. ipconfig is a Windows command line utility and network troubleshooting tool. To…
With the introduction of Firefox Quantum, Mozilla removed support for legacy XUL extensions in favor of Web Extensions. This naturally made a lot of people angry. XUL extensions had full control over the browser and could change everything from how…
The less time you use the mouse the faster you can navigate a computer. That said, sometimes keyboard shortcuts are not enough. When you need to launch programs or search for a file quickly for example. Enter in Launchy, the…
2016 has been an interesting year. Random Thoughts has produced a series of articles Introducing Computers, another Simpsons joke came true, and many other things came to pass. Technology We plan to continue our computer series with some more specialized…
Last time we went over computer hardware. Today we will be installing Windows 10. Windows 10 is the most recent version of the Windows Operating system (OS). We will first go over installing the OS from a disk, if you…
Before we learn how to use a computer we must understand what a computer is and the underlining concepts that allow computers to work. At the most basic level a computer takes data (input) and processes it into information (output).…
In our hyper connected world it is important to know how to use a computer. Unfortunately, many people do not have the knowledge of computers to get far in a work environment. Thus Random Thoughts will start an Introduction to…