It’s hard to believe that eight years have passed since my last post in 2015. Time truly flies, doesn’t it? A lot has happened since then, and so much has changed. Thankfully, my family and I managed to get through the Covid-19 pandemic. During this period, I mourned the passing of my beloved Dad, which… Read More »
One day without warning I found the Chrome browser app on my HTC One M9+ unable to access any HTTPS sites. I kept getting the following message every time I tried accessing HTTPS sites: “This webpage is not available”. I can access regular HTTP sites without any problem but just the HTTPS sites that I’m… Read More »
A few weeks ago I was tricked by Facebook into a SMS subscription. During the login stage, I was led to believe that giving my cellphone number to them would improve the security of my FB account. They however did not make it clear that this would be a SMS Subscription and that the subscription… Read More »
I use the Windows XP Device Manager a lot so obviously it’s a hassle for me everytime to go through several clicks of the mouse to open it. To make life easier I created a shortcut to the Device Manager on my desktop where I could get to the Device Manager with a single double-click.… Read More »
I got the following error message on Firefox. xxxxxx uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate expired on 21/12/2010 11:59 AM. (Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate) I found from online sources that a very quick fix to this was to temporarily change the date on the computer. And I did just that. I changed the system date… Read More »
I haven’t touched my Acer Aspire One netbook for several months. A few days ago I tried to power it on but… nothing. The battery has obviously dischared by itself after being left idle for several months. So I hooked it up to the power socket and charged it overnight. To my surprise the next… Read More »
If you’re a Depeche Mode fan then this will be big news: Alan Wilder joined Martin on stage for ‘Somebody’ at the Royal Albert Hall, London, February 17th 2010. He played the piano. He and Martin hugged after. He even hugged Fletch after. It was an unannounced thing and caught everyone by surprise. And what… Read More »
Just this morning I was trying to make an immediate payment to a seller for a Dvd I purchased today in eBay but hit the following cryptic message from eBay during payment processing: Sorry, you’ve hit a speed bump!Tried several times throughout the morning to make the payment but every time I encountered that annoying… Read More »
Here is a simple trick to download and view any videos from YouTube As you probably know, by default, Youtube doesn’t allow users to save/download its videos. However, with the simple steps outlined below you will be able to save/download a YouTube video to your computer and later share it with your friends or keep… Read More »
I recently noticed that my Firefox stopped displaying any Google Adwords ads in the Google search engine results pages or in any other pages actually. I started to think back to what I have just recently changed to my pc or Firefox that might have caused the problem. I hit a blank. Then I searched… Read More »
