The Computer Lab

In this video, I show you how to remove items from photographs using powerful tools that are built into Affinity Photo as standard. Inpainting that is built into Affinity Photo is a powerful removal tool. It works by sampling a section of the photo you are working on and the surrounding areas, it can then remove unwanted elements from photographs and images such as dust spots, people, vehicles, lens flare etc.

So the NEST Hello has just been released in the UK starting delivery 11th June 2018, which is great but we are currently not getting a full picture on installing the Hello and its ancillary equipment requirements. Now it might prove that Google (Nest) supply the extra bits that we need (but I doubt it - going off other countries experience) So what do we need: Nest Hello (Obviously) Suitable bell wire Door chime  Bell transformer Din Rail Enclosure Ancillary bits depending on how you install. So whats the problem ? All standard kit I hear you say. According to Nest Hello website the doorbell needs: Power requirements - Requires a 16 V AC – 24 V AC, 8 VA transformer, chime and a wired doorbell. The Problem being is we can source 24v Bell transformer (British General) but cannot get a 24v door chime. Or we can source a 16v door chime (Friedland / Honeywell) but we have been struggling to find a 16v Transformer. Also to note here is that I spoke to Honey

In this short video, I show you how to access all your hidden passwords that are stored in Safari on your Mac computer. Sometimes we ask Safari to save a commonly used password on our Mac maybe for webmail, maybe for a shopping website this is great for ease of use whilst using the same computer but when you want to access a password locked account on another computer or Mac then remembering the password might be a problem. That is where this tip is really great as it gives you access to all the stored passwords in your Safari browser. This can be very helpful if the password stored is a long computer-generated password that was created and stored on your Mac. Follow this short video to learn how to access the passwords. Don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel for more great tips.

Your Mac contains multiple hidden games, including a few retro classic games. The games that you can access range from some of the more well known games like Tetris and Pong to Dunnet (A simple text based adventure game). The hidden games area also has a built in Psychiatrist (Doctor) which is a version of the Eliza program created in the 1960's at MIT where you can have a simulated therapy session. The secret / hidden games are accessed through the Terminal command on your Mac and started by typing in the name of the game like pong or doctor. Some of the games / programs are very quirky and really don't make much sense but others are intriguing. 1: Open terminal 2: Type: emacs 3: Push: esc (Escape Key) 4: Push: x 5: Type the game name to play the game: e.g. pong, doctor, tetris, snake, solitaire, 5x5, animate, blackbox, cookie1, decipher, dissociate, dunnet, fortune, gamegrid, gametree, gomoku, handwrite, hanoi, landmark, life, meese, morse, mpuz, spook, study, yow and

In this video I show you how to set and change the way Windows 10 handles file extensions to open default programs, so basically the video goes through changing your default global programs that Microsoft sets to open set program types. Also, the video covers how to change the default programs that are activated by clicking on a particular file extension. If you don't like they way Microsoft Edge browser opens over time you click on a PDF, or simply want to change your default mp3 player then this tutorial video in the one.