As soon as you start posting reviews and pictures on Google Maps, you will be offered an opportunity by Google to participate in the Local Guides Program. Once accepted, you will get a shape changing star under your profile picture and Google Maps will now become a game of pursuit. As you rise the levels,…
WordPress 5.9.3 update is giving sleepless nights to WordPress admins. There are too many failures while installation and many of them are giving a critical error. The kind which right now dosen’t have too many easy solutions. You just get a cryptic message which says “There has been a critical error on this website”. Solution…
Under the site health status page on a self hosted WordPress site you can get a recommended improvement of “Have a default theme available”. Even though it is a recommended tip, it is important from the point of view of backup and crash recovery. What is site health status WordPress introduced this status page in…
All-in-One SEO plugin for WordPress is the original SEO plugin. The number one position however has been taken over by other plugins, Yoast being the most popular. Rank Math is another plugin which is gaining popularity. One of the most frustrating experience with AIO SEO plugin is the problem with featured image not showing up…
Jetpack by WordPress is a formidable plugin which adds a lot of features to a self hosted wordpress site. But it is besieged with its set of problems. In this article we shall see the problem of missing Jetpack plugins and its solution. The widget in particular we are looking at is the Facebook Page…
Every now and then Windows will throw up an error that it is unable to format the disk. We usually attempt to use a pendrive in a state of hurry. So it naturally frustrating when Windows shows up such an error. In this article we shall see a foolproof method to overcome this problem and…
If you tweet a link of your post with an embedded photograph, it would be good effect if the photograph is also visible with the tweet. Twitter allows you to upload a photograph. But we will specifically focus on the photographs embedded in your post link. Previously we had seen how images are brought alive…
Norton Removal Tool is a very important weapon in the arsenal of the PC trouble shooter. It uninstalls Norton Products and also removes traces of a failed/damaged installation or an expired product. No matter what you try or which method you use, Norton Antivirus will leave a trace in your PC. For assured removal, Norton…
We recently received a HP Notebook owned by a Doctor. As expected there was a lot of invaluable data in the notebook related to medical studies and research accumulated over the years. Retrieval of data was of utmost importance. The notebook was forever in the Windows 8 repair and diagnosis loop. In this two part series…
Way back in 2008, a large number of Web Surfers moved over to Google Public DNS to overcome DNS related issues and speed up web browsing and downloads. With the aim of cutting costs and typical oversights, many ISP neglect the most important part of their operations, the DNS. This slows down your overall browsing…
This problem will occur in a running Desktop PC. The display will go off and you will get a message of “No Signal”. Now as you switch on the UPS and just prior to power on of a PC, the monitor displays this message. This is because the CPU has still not booted and hence…
Opening a picture in Windows Photo Viewer gives is yellow tint. This happens because of an incorrect colour profile. It might happen after installation of a new monitor software or a buggy video driver. To rectify go to Control Panel and Colour Management, as shown below. First click Remove and take out the default profile…