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My “Pick” for today is the fast and powerful Apple 2025 MacBook Pro Laptop w/ M5 chip.
If you’ve been waiting for the new MacBook Pro with the awesome M5 chip to finally arrive, your wait is over. It’s here, and it’s indeed awesome.
Click here to check out the Apple 2025 MacBook Pro Laptop w/ M5 chip at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a very colorful fall scene from a small rural park in eastern Tennessee. 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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October’s winner will receive a fantastic Lenovo Idea Tab 11″ Tablet with Pen.
This premium Android tablet can do most anything you need a tablet to do (and you’ll love the large 11 inch screen).
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Question from Amber: After my Windows computer has been sitting idle for a few minutes the hard drive just shuts down.
When I get back on the computer and press a key or move my mouse I can hear the drive starting back up again and I have to wait several seconds before I can do anything.
This is extremely irritating. I guess I’m just impatient and want my computer to respond as quickly as possible. [Read more…]
That perfect campsite does exist. It’s the one beside a still, hidden lake, hours from the nearest town—where the only sounds come from the wind and distant birds, and the night sky opens up, clear and full of stars.
But getting there? That’s the hard part.
You park miles out, shoulder a pack that digs deep by the second, and trek down sandy, uneven trails on foot. By the time you arrive, you’re too worn out to appreciate the view. The cooler stocked for a real meal? Still in the trunk. The camp chair you actually want to sit in? Too heavy to carry that far.
What if you didn’t have to choose between comfort and the wild? What if you could bring everything you need—without the exhausting hike? [Read more…]
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These days most people are aware that viruses, spyware, adware and other types of malware are lurking in the shadows of the Internet, just waiting for an opportunity to sneak onto their computers’ hard drives and perform all kinds of mischief.
What many folks don’t know however is just how easy it is for a computer or mobile device (and the sensitive data stored on it) to become compromised simply by using an out-of-date web browser that doesn’t have the latest security updates installed.