Imagine this scenario, you are diligently working on the Partnership grant that your site has asked you to write for them (though occasionally stopping to check to see if a new Tech Tips has arrived) when you look to the corner of your screen and realize you need to run to the train station to ...

A couple of weeks ago we learned how to save the audio from YouTube files to use later in our English clubs. But what if you want to save entire movies? This week’s Tech Tip will teach you a very similar method for saving YouTube movies. To start off, open the video you want to download ...

Take a look around you. Where are you as you read this? Are you sitting at home lounging in the comfiest chair you own or are you at a computer club or your site’s computer trying to get the most out of your limited time on the internet? If you are in the latter group, ...

Do you like reading the same websites daily? Do you have slow internet? Are you lazy? Are you like me and like reading the same websites daily but have slow internet and are lazy? Well, I’ve got the solution for you. Most websites these days are updated at least once a day and those that are ...

Consider this. You know of this great song or video from YouTube you want to use for a listening session at English Club but where you hold it, you don’t have internet access. While it’s completely possible to pull the video up ahead of time and leave it on your computer until you use it, ...

If you’re like me, you use your computer a lot. I use mine daily and I’m constantly adding files and deleting files and moving files. I’m not always aware that there is so much being done to files on my computer. I mean, I mostly surf the net. But there are, in fact, many file ...

Imagine this scenario, a fellow PCV comes to visit because he/she has some downtime at their site due to it being the summer. The PCV brought their computer with so they can do some work at your site. But alas, you only have one internet connection and you need it to do your own work. ...

Summer is upon us and we all know it means that most of us are going to have a fair amount of free time on our hands. While I’m sure that I could recommend countless things to do like reading or studying Ukrainian and Russian, but this is a technology tip so I’ll stick with ...

Are you or someone you know running an older version of Microsoft Office? Do you feel left out when someone forwards you and your friends a document and you’re the only one who can’t read it? Well, it’s time to stop living in the dark ages and the time is now to embrace the future. As ...

A friendly reminder to install updates for your computer. Updates are your operating systems way of defending itself from new threats and a way to keep your computer running smoothly. Updates will fix security holes to keep attackers out of your computer. Updates will also repair parts of your system which have bugs that can ...