Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter – Wednesday, July 14, 2021
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This is your Rick's Daily Tips Tech Update for Wednesday, July 14, 2021.
Topics covered in this issue...
--How to 'crop' a screenshot before you even capture it
--Should you completely drain your laptop’s battery before recharging it?
--Q&A: How can I reset the password on a hand-me-down PC?
--Why you need a Battery Backup Device: A real-word example
--Odds are you’ll get struck by lightning before you win the lottery, but these guys won several times each.
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Today's Quick Tip....
How to 'crop' a screenshot before you even capture it
You probably know you can snap a "picture" of all or part of your computer screen.
These "pictures" are called screenshots, and they can be incredibly handy.
What you might not know is you can easily "crop" a screenshot before you even take it in order to capture the exact section of the screen you want to include in your screenshot image.
Follow these instructions if you have a Mac:
1 - Press the Command+Shift+5 key combination.
2 - Click the icon that looks like a rectangle made of dashed lines.
3 - Drag the edges of the rectangle to enclose just the part of the screen you want to capture.
4 - Click Capture.
Follow these instructions if you have a PC running Windows 10:
1 - Press the Windows+Shift+S key combination.
2 - Use your mouse to place the + (plus sign) at the top-left corner of the section of the screen you want to capture a screenshot of (don't release the mouse button).
3 - Drag the mouse downward and to the right until the box covers the entire area of the screen you wish to capture, then release the mouse button.
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From the blog...
Should you completely drain your laptop’s battery before recharging it?
There seems to be a lot of confusion about this. Read this post for the answer.
Q&A: How can I reset the password on a hand-me-down PC?
A reader wants to know how to reset the unknown password to a Windows 10 PC. Read this post for my answer.
Why you need a Battery Backup Device: A real-word example
This post discusses a real-life example of why your computer really needs to be plugged into a battery backup device / UPS.
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Today's post from 'My Daily Smile'...
If you play the lottery you probably know how badly the odds of winning the jackpot are stacked against you. Both of the men featured in this post beat those odds not once, but several times.
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