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Rick’s Daily Pick: Dell SE2719H 27″ LED Backlit Full HD Monitor

Posted on February 28, 2021

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.

My “Pick” for the day is this Dell SE2719H 27 LED Backlit Full HD Monitor.

Do you have to squint to see the text and icons on your smaller desktop or laptop screen?

Is the monitor you have right now on its proverbial last legs?

If the answer to either of these questions is yes then you owe it to yourself to check out this awesome 27″ gem from Dell. It’s fantastic, and quite affordable!

Click here to read more about the Dell SE2719H 27 LED Backlit Full HD Monitor at Amazon.

Make your laptop’s touchpad easier to use by turning on ‘ClickLock’

Posted on February 28, 2021

Do you use a laptop?

If so, you probably know how difficult it can be using the touchpad to scroll through web pages or to drag and drop items.

Yep, it’s a two-handed process for the less dexterous among us (which definitely includes yours truly).

You basically have to use a finger on one hand to hold the left touchpad button while using the other hand to move the object in question around on the screen.

What you might not know however is that a simple settings change can make your touchpad a lot easier to use…

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Q&A: Can I reset a laptop if I don’t know all the passwords?

Posted on February 28, 2021

Question from Barry V.: I bought an Acer Aspire S7-391 laptop with Windows 8 at an estate auction.

I took a chance on it because it looks brand new and I was able to buy it for only $20. I’m hoping that’s a good deal (LOL).

Once I got the laptop home and booted it up I found out that it has 3 user accounts on it.

One account is an administrator account without a password on it. The other two accounts are standard accounts that I can’t get into because they do have passwords (and I don’t know them).

I’d like to reset this machine back to the factory default settings. If I boot into the administrator account and do the reset will it wipe out the other two accounts even though I don’t have the passwords to them?

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Review: Click Action Traffic (website traffic vendor)

Posted on February 28, 2021

As a blogger I’m always on the lookout for new ways to attract more visitors to my blogs.

A while back I tested and reviewed a newsletter advertising service called 10DollarSoloAds and the results were quite poor (and that’s probably an understatement).

Even though that initiative turned out to be a bust, I’m an optimist at heart and not one to give up so I checked some of the blogger forums I participate in and uncovered a recommendation for a service called Click Action Traffic.

The recommendation sounded good so I decided to visit the site to find out exactly what they were offering.

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Picture of the Day: “Mountain View”

Posted on February 28, 2021

Today’s “Picture of the Day” features a hiker enjoying the spectacular view from atop a mountain that he had just finished climbing. I hope you like it.

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