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My “Pick” for today is this super-handy Mecheer Home Electrical Usage Monitor.
Do you suspect that one or more of your small appliances or gadgets is running up your electric bill? This little gem will show you exactly how many watts each of your devices is using.
Click here to check out the Mecheer Home Electrical Usage Monitor at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a closeup view of a red rose blossom. These delicate flowers are truly among the most beautiful things in nature. I hope you like it.
Have lots of treasured photos of your own that you’d love to display in your home but you have limited wall space? A digital picture frame (#ad) is an excellent solution. Check them out!
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December’s winner will receive a fantastic GMKtec Mini Desktop Computer.
It’s amazing how much computing power they’re packing into such tiny packages these days. True tower desktop power in a small case that’s about the size of a brick.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on December 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Do you travel often for either work or pleasure?
If so, you probably worry about the possibility of a thief absconding with your laptop along with all the sensitive data that’s stored on it.
And that’s indeed a real concern since most Windows PCs, by default, do a poor job at protecting stored data from prying eyes – even if the machine is protected with a password or PIN. [Read more…]
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Question from Marvin: I read your article about upgrading a computer by switching to an SSD to make it run faster.
The following weekend I went to Best Buy and bought a 1TB SSD and cloned the contents of the existing 1TB hard disk onto it.
I then wiped the hard drive and formatted it. Then I installed the SSD in the computer, leaving the now-blank hard drive in place to store my data files on.
Everything works perfectly but something has me baffled. When I look in the BIOS it says the hard drive is set as the boot drive.
How is this machine booting into Windows when the boot drive is blank?
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In a previous post I explained how to link to an individual Facebook post.
Since then I’ve seen several of my friends say they are “sharing” a post so they can find it on their Timeline at a later date.
Some people also prefer using Facebook’s “Save” feature to save interesting posts for later reading.
Sharing a good post is great because it lets your friends enjoy the posts that you like or find useful (I LOVE it when folks share my tips and photos with their friends), but it can still be time-consuming going back through your Timeline trying to find a post from days, weeks or months past. [Read more…]