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Webopedia – The online encyclopedia for computer and Internet terms

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webopedia-logoEvery industry has a certain amount of jargon that only people involved with that industry understand, but the computer world has way more than its fair share of it.

I’ve been using computers since the early 1980s and I still encounter technical terms and phrases on on occasion that I have never heard before.

Luckily, there is a fantastic website called Webopedia that we can turn to whenever we need to find out what a new computer term means or how a certain tidbit of technology works.

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Why you should never keep your backup drive plugged into your computer

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Regular readers of this blog know I’m always mentioning how important it is to create regular backups of your Windows PC or Mac.

After all, always having a recent backup of your machine’s hard drive or SSD on hand is the very best “insurance” you can have against a catastrophic drive failure or a crippling virus infection.

But there’s one important point that I probably don’t stress nearly as much as I should…

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Q&A: The background on my screen has turned all white. How can I get it back to normal?

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Question from Paula K.:  I let my daughter play some games on my laptop last a couple of nights ago.

When I turned it on yesterday morning the entire background on the screen was completely white with bold, black text.

I asked her what she did to make it change like that and she said she doesn’t know.

I can use it this way but I absolutely hate it because it’s ugly!

Can you tell me how to get the screen back to normal? My laptop has Windows 10.

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Picture of the Day: “Winter in Esslingen”

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Today’s “Picture of the Day” features a beautiful wintry scene from Esslingen, Germany. I hope you like it.

Enough said. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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