Mobile Devices – Daves Computer Tips

How To Adjust Playback Speed On Facebook

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:03:03 +0000

If you were here last week, you learned how to stop AI Remixing Your TikTok Videos. Some of you might have missed that, so you can find it here: How To Stop TikTok AI Remixes This week, we are going to jump over to Facebook. I’m giving credit for this lesson to my wife. She was watching videos on Facebook and noticed that the playback speed was too fast. She then figured out that you can…

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How To Stop TikTok AI Remixes

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:03:07 +0000

Every week, I try to teach you something useful to help you with technology. Last week, I taught you how to boost your FPS (Frames Per Second) on your Windows laptop. If you missed that, you can find it here: How To Boost FPS: Disable Windows Game DVR This week, we are going to teach you how you can stop AI on TikTok from stealing your videos. Yes, they have added a feature that allows AI to…

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Are You A Slave To Technology?

Marc Thomas — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:44:50 +0000

We live in a leafy suburb of Buenos Aires, very close to the Rio de la Plata (River Plate), and opposite us is an excellent cycle path that is used by both cyclists and pedestrians alike. Every weekend, I would see hundreds of cyclists zooming past our front door, and for years told myself that I should be doing something similar, especially being the wrong side of 60. So, in December…

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How To View Your Daily Workouts On Your Apple Watch

Carol Bratt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:10:53 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I really do try to keep myself in shape. Not gonna say I like it, but I do it nonetheless! If there is nothing else I have learned while on this earth, it is that if you do NOT try to keep yourself in decent shape, you will most definitely not BE in decent shape, and it is a lot harder to get back where you want to be when you slack off. But I digress. I try to start…

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How To Enable Clipboard Alerts on Samsung

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:16:56 +0000

Last week, I covered how you can blur your home on Google Maps. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Blur House On Google Maps I want to stick with the subject of privacy and security. This time, we will give you a safety tip for your Samsung Android phone. You might know that apps might try to look at your clipboard without your permission. No one wants anyone accessing parts…

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Why You Should Enable Two-Step Verification On Your Mobile Phone

Marc Thomas — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:36:21 +0000

Over the last couple of years, friends have had their WhatsApp accounts hacked by scammers who send them a code and then ask the victim to confirm it through their phone. Some have even lost thousands of dollars through similar WhatsApp scams, and for those reasons, I activated two-step verification on WhatsApp on my phone. As I type this, I’m being bombarded by messages giving me a code ‘for my…

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I Really Should Use Speech-To-Text More Often

Marc Thomas — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:05:34 +0000

My first encounter with voice recognition was back in the mid-70s, while watching Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). In act two, Dr. Haywood Floyd arrives at the space station and passes through Voiceprint Identification, confirming his destination, nationality, and full name. This technology and more, shown in the film, were way ahead of the times – who can possibly forget HAL…

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How To Disconnect App From ChatGPT

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:04:18 +0000

If you have been following for the last few weeks, you noticed my lessons on ChatGPT. If you missed last week’s lesson, you can find it here: How To Change Appearance Of ChatGPT I’m going to continue these lessons and teach you a little more about this AI system. ‘What is the lesson?‘, you might be asking. With ChatGPT, you can connect other websites to it. You might have done this and did not…

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How To Use The Sleep Feature On Your Apple Watch

Carol Bratt — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:31:03 +0000

Were you aware that you could track your sleep habits using your watch? I know! Crazy huh?? Yes, it may seem crazy, but it is true, you can actually do this! I was gobsmacked when I found out about this. What’s next? Geez, I’m kind of afraid to ask! But if you have reason to know what your body is doing while you sleep, your watch will absolutely take care of this for you, believe it or not!

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Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025) – A Mini Review

Marc Thomas — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:02:41 +0000

In March 2016, DCT author Daniel Banks asked Are Smartwatches Just A Fad? Then, in September 2021, I wrote, I Just Bought My First Smart Watch!, followed by my most recent opinion in I Underestimated The Power Of Smart Watches, where I made mention of the new Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra (2025). Daniel was not convinced that smartwatches would catch on, dismissing them as a fad, much as I did back…

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How To Change Appearance Of ChatGPT

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:09:56 +0000

If you were here last week, you would have learned How To Change ChatGPT Personality. If you missed that one, you can find it here: How To Change ChatGPT Personality Since I have been teaching on this for the last few weeks, let’s continue our lessons on this AI tool. “What else will I teach you?” Good question. This week, I will be showing you how to change the appearance. That is right…

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How To Stop ChatGPT Notifications

Jason Shuffield — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:47:49 +0000

Last week I started a lesson on the new subject of ChatGPT. We talked about how you could stop this AI from taking your information to teach all its AI systems. If you missed that, you can find it here: How To Stop ChatGPT Using My Data I would like to stick with this subject and teach you something else about AI. As with all programs and websites, they love to send you notifications.

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I Underestimated The Power Of Smart Watches

Marc Thomas — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:43:14 +0000

Back in September 2021, I bought a Samsung Gear 3 Frontier smartwatch and wrote about it in I Just Bought My First Smartwatch! I sold it a year or two later and reverted to analogue, but smart watches have improved considerably in the intervening years. I don’t think I truly appreciated the Gear 3 and what it was capable of, so back in September 2024, I bought a Xiaomi Watch 2 in a gadget…

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Have Siri Announce Your Calls On Your iPhone

Carol Bratt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:05:07 +0000

I know! Sounds really strange, right? Well, I guess it sounds a little strange anyway for us old folk. But that is why I am here – to bring you up to speed and teach you how to make things easier for you, or if not easier, at least fun, and you will learn something to boot! It will totally freak out your grandchildren. Ask me how I know! This is really very simple, and you should not have any…

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