The Computer Tutor

Everyone knows what a YouTube video is. But not everyone knows what a GIF video is (even though just about everyone has seen one on Facebook or somewhere on the internet). Did you know that you can easily take a YouTube video, and create a GIF video out of that? Today I’ll show you how. [...] Read more »

Ned Whyte lives in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. On September 19, 2015 he finished the Surf Coast Century 100k ultramarathon and became an ultrafinisher. Congratulations Ned!

Fun fact: One of the books that inspired Ned to run an ultra was Scared Weird Frozen Guy, which is described as a "very funny book". Probably worth checking out just because of the odd title.

Every so often I do a post where I feature several websites that are interesting, informative, funny or just somehow intriguing in some way.   Documentary Addict http://documentaryaddict.com/ Whenever I go on Netflix, and I don’t have anything specific in mind to watch, I tend to browse through the documentaries. And Netflix does have [...] Read more »

John Lesteberg lives in Fargo, North Dakota. On August 22, 2015, he completed the Lean Horse 50 mile ultramarathon, and became an ultrafinisher. Congratulations John!

Fun fact: For one of his long runs, John created some peanut butter & jelly burritos. After he told me about it in our chat, I tried it and now it's one of my favorite ways to fuel. I made a video about it.

Everyone visits YouTube at one time or another. Some people visit it and watch videos every day. There are even people that spend HOURS each day watching those videos. But I’ll bet there are a lot of people, even those that use YouTube every day, that don’t know some of these shortcuts that work in [...] Read more »

Chris Gkikas lives in Asheville, North Carolina. On September 19, 2015 he finished the Barkley Fall Classic 50k ultramarathon in Wartburg, Tennessee. This was not his first ultra, nor did he achieve a new distance in this race. To understand what makes this story significant (and inspiring) you just need to listen to him tell what happened. It's an awesome story, but even more so since it's told from Chris' first-hand perspective.

Note: this episode is one of my longer ones - it's about an hour.

Fun fact: this race is unusual in many ways, but one of the most interesting is that the course actually takes the runners inside and through a former prison - the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary.

Every Windows keyboard has the same row of keys across the top – the Function keys. Those are the keys at the top of the keyboard labeled F1, F2, F3 and so on up to F12. One of the questions I get asked sometimes is, “What do the function keys actually do?” As with a [...] Read more »

Tim Bourdeau lives in Tampa, Florida. On September 5, 2015 he completed the Pinellas Trail Challenge 46-mile race and became an ultrafinisher. Congratulations Tim!

Fun fact: Tim chose this race as his first ultra because it's not far from his home, and because the entry fee is perfect - it's a free race!

When you get a new computer, especially if you get one of the more recent ones that are running Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, part of the set-up process is setting a Windows password. Most people don’t realize that you don’t NEED to have a Windows password on your computer, but the wording on the [...] Read more »

Jim Codling lives in Cumming, Georgia. On August 30, 2015 he finished the Yeti Snakebite 50k ultramarathon near Atlanta, and became an ultrafinisher. Congratulations Jim!

Fun fact: Jim was slowed down by 2+ hours of hard rain in the middle of the race – but he still finished 2 1/2 hours ahead of the cutoff time.