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TechByter Worldwide, once limited to the reach of WTVN Radio in Columbus, Ohio, as Technology Corner, is now available worldwide. Programs are listed by date (YYYY.MM.DD: Topic) so that you'...

Normally this would be an off week for TechByter Worldwide, two days after Christmas, and five days before the new year begins; so it’s main...

Internet service providers promise specific upload and download speeds. In most cases, these promises are stated as speeds “up to” whatever...

Text messages on our phones are so easy to use and so common that it’s all too easy to forget how useful they are to scammers. Every text me...

Some of Adobe’s improvements in Photoshop and the other photographic applications are little short of magic. Boring and cumbersome tasks can...

Because there is no program during Thanksgiving week, here is a link to last week’s podcast.

Is there a key on the keyboard that you absolutely despise? Maybe the CapsLock key. Maybe some other key that causes trouble for you when yo...

Windows seemingly has adjustments, settings, configurations, and modifications for just about everything. Despite a decade-long effort to fi...

Two words make my teeth itch when I hear them, particularly when I hear them from photographers. Someone who claims to be artistic and creat...

No matter how much effort Microsoft expends on the Start Menu, it will never please everyone. The Start Menu does offer a lot of customizati...

I talk about libraries frequently because they are probably the best value provided for our tax dollars. If you’re looking for access to new...

It seems that I lied last week when I said TechByter Worldwide would resume this week. Covid is in the rear-view mirror, but I still can’t t...

Here’s where I would mention the upcoming topics, but there aren’t any this week. That’s because Phyllis and I both contracted covid after a...

Just as people have fingerprints, so do browsers. The fingerprint is what allows the browser to be tracked from site to site. If you find th...

The National Institutes of Health would like to know more about you. Share some information with the All of Us project and you’ll help resea...

Regardless of what software came with your scanner, VueScan will do a better job and you’ll never have to worry about the scanner being orph...

Is there a “best” browser? Of course there is, but your “best” browser may not be my “best” browser, and my “best” today at noon may not be...

You’re going to die someday. As a eulogy I once heard put it, “The young may die and the old must.” Dying is as easy as it ever has been but...

If you think sorting out differences between cellular plans is a challenge, try wading through information for the low-cost plans, particula...

Sometimes the fastest and most efficient way to diagnose a problem with a computer involves creating a new account. In Short Circuits: When...

Canva, especially with its acquisition of Affinity’s Photo, Design, and Publishing apps, is a powerful competitor for graphic design, but do...

As our computers become repositories for ever increasing numbers of files, sometimes it’s hard to find the one you’re looking for even if yo...

Microsoft and Adobe are gigantic, but are they as evil as some would have us believe? Big doesn’t always mean bad, so let’s take a look. In...

Doctored images, deep-fake videos, and disinformation have us surrounded, so now it’s time to identify the ways we can protect ourselves fro...

Even if you use an online backup service, it probably doesn’t capture the operating system and the Registry. An image backup application is...

No matter how long or complex a password is, it’s useless if a scammer gains access to it. One of the most beneficial aspects of passkeys is...

The domain name service you use may have an effect on the speed with which web pages load, but there are other reasons to examine the DNS yo...

Panicking pundits pummel Photoshop prematurely. If you listen to or read some of what passes for thoughtful reporting, you might be convince...

When I noticed a disk drive problem early one Saturday, I decided it was time to replace an aging cabinet filled with aging disk drives. A s...

Despite having used CrashPlan for the past eight years and still feeling that it is a viable online backup service, I have switched to Backb...

This week is all about artificial intelligence, starting with the many ways AI can be used to improve images and sometimes create scenes tha...

Many Windows 11 users will be offered an update to Windows 11 version 24H2 between now and the end of the year. As is usual with Windows, th...

An update to Excire Search brings the ability to look for photos using a text description, as introduced in Exicre Foto, to the company’s pl...

Ensuring that your computer is safe, private, and secure is easy enough, but doing so will make the computer virtually unusable. Let’s consi...

Some remarkable capabilities have been added to Audacity, but it’s still not a contender to take Audition’s place for audio productions. In...

When something goes wrong with your computer, it may be easier, faster, and less frustrating to fix it yourself instead of dealing with tech...

A surprising number of Facebook accounts are being stolen and recovering them is difficult, if not impossible. That’s why it’s better to avo...

You still have about a year and a half to decide what you’ll do when Microsoft ends support for Windows 10. There are several choices, but n...

Romania-based security company Bitdefender offers a comprehensive protective suite for Windows and MacOS computers, as well as IOS and Andro...

The virtual desktops feature that was added to Windows 10 and improved in Windows 11 can help organize the computer when you need to work on...

If you regularly mutter to your computer that it doesn’t do something you want it to do or doesn’t do something the way you want it to, stop...

One of the most common ways that people are victimized online involves the victims failing to recognize social engineering and giving their...

When a charge for a service I didn’t recognize showed up in an alert from my bank, I found that I had been signed up for a video streaming s...

Exposure hasn’t had an upgrade from the X7 version, which was released in 2021, but it’s still a good choice both as a standalone applicatio...

A hijacked Facebook account can be a lot of fun, but only if you have a most peculiar understanding of the term “fun”. It wasn’t my account,...

Which is better, cable or streaming? There are lots of variables and cable is perfect for some people while streaming is the winner for othe...

The more digital photos you have, the harder it is to find the one you’re looking for. Excire Search, a plug-in for Lightroom Classic, makes...

Free, open-source software is often viewed as being second rate when compared to commercial software, but sometimes the best application act...

Windows 11 cannot be installed on certain computers, mainly older models that lack sufficient hardware, but it is possible to force-install...

Anyone who has digital photos that are more than a decade old could improve their quality substantially with an application that uses artifi...

The Sysinternals suite of utilities has been around since the 1990s and has been part of Microsoft since 2006. More than 70 utilities make S...