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My “Pick” for today is this awesome Dell Pro P2725H Plus 27″ FHD Monitor.
Are you looking to upgrade to a really nice 27 inch monitor? This one is an excellent choice if quality is your primary concern.
Click here to check out the Dell Pro P2725H Plus 27″ FHD Monitor at Amazon.
Did you miss (or want to revisit) one of my earlier picks? You might find it right here.
Today’s POTD features a pair of very attentive chickens that appear to be standing lookout for, well…something. It looks like they have both the right and left views well covered. 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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September’s winner will receive a fantastic CyberPower 1500VA/1000W Sinewave UPS Battery Backup / Surge Protector.
This will keep your computer, modem and router online for a full hour after your power goes out, preventing a dangerous instant shutdown that could damage your computer gear and cause you to lose any unsaved data that’s currently in the machine’s RAM.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on September 30 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Question from Marvin: After using a flip phone for years, I finally decided it was time to upgrade to a smart phone.
I found a good deal on a new iPhone so I bought one. I like the phone ok, but some things about it are really confusing.
For example, my phone’s user manual says it supports both Bluetooth and WiFi wireless connectivity.
What is Bluetooth and how is it different from WiFi? [Read more…]
For much of the past twenty years, homeowners throughout the Greater Toronto Area followed a fairly predictable pattern. A young family would purchase a starter home, build equity for several years and eventually move into something larger as their needs changed.
Whether it was an extra bedroom, a finished basement or a larger backyard, upgrading usually felt like the natural next step.
Today’s housing market has rewritten that playbook. [Read more…]
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I receive dozens of tech questions every week, and as you might expect some questions get asked over and over.
One of the questions that gets asked most often is some variation of “How do I remove [McAfee, Norton or whatever] from my computer?”
For various reasons, antivirus apps can sometimes be difficult to remove with Windows’ native uninstaller, and I’ve had my own issues with many of them in the past.
Luckily, there’s a simple way to remove most any antivirus program from your computer: Just download and run that company’s automated removal tool! [Read more…]