Daves Computer Tips

Recently, I have had several customers receive a BitLocker recovery screen. Unfortunately, none of the customers had knowingly enacted the BitLocker Encryption, and all were unaware they had one. Many didn’t know they had a Microsoft Account. This article is aimed at explaining everything you need to know to protect yourself against the complete loss of data if a BitLocker re...

I’m a big fan of the zombie genre, so when this short film popped up on my X feed, I was intrigued. The poster simply described it as the best short film he’d seen in years, so I hit play. Three and a half minutes later, I was stunned by what I’d seen, not least because it wasn’t produced by a giant Hollywood studio, but generated by AI. In fact, the person who posted it on X...

If you saw last week’s article, I taught you how to share text messages. Here is if you missed it: How To Share Text Messages On Android This week, I wanted to stick with our Android subject. ‘What will you teach me this time?’ Good question! I wanted to show how you can share contacts from an Android phone. My wife recently asked me for someone’s contact information from my ...

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PDFgear provides a free, comprehensive suite of PDF tools available as an installable version and/or online version. There are quite a few free PDF editors around, but I don’t believe I’ve ever come across one with the comprehensive feature set provided by PDFgear. The download consists of a 133.8MB executable, which scans 100% clean through Virus Total, and installation is c...