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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Roku 55″ Select Series 4K HDR Smart TV.
Looking to ditch your sky-high cable or satellite TV bill and also replace an aging TV? This gem will let you do both. All you’ll need is a broadband Internet connection.
Click here to check out the Roku 55″ Select Series 4K HDR Smart TV at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a colorful autumn view of the Linn Cove Viaduct, a picturesque bridge on the Blue Ridge Parkway that was constructed in order to to protect the fragile environment of Grandfather Mountain in western North Carolina. 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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January’s winner will receive a fantastic Ecoflow DELTA 2 Portable 1024Wh Power Station.
This will keep your computer or CPAP machine plus a few other small essential devices powered up for hours during extended power outages.
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on January 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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Question from Sue: I have 16 solar deck lights around the railing of my deck.
These lights are a little over a year old and their cheap AA rechargeable batteries now only last about an hour or so after the sun goes down.
I really like these particular lights so I’d prefer to replace the batteries instead of the lights themselves.
Can I safely replace the old rechargeable batteries in these lights with something like Energizers? [Read more…]
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Question from Tammy: Hello Rick. Thanks for all the great computer tips you post. They are a BIG help!!
Now I guess it’s my turn to ask a question.
When I load Task Manager it shows 11 processes running at the same time for Google Chrome even though I only six tabs open.
Could that be because my PC has a virus? [Read more…]
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One of the biggest frustrations for Windows users has always been how the Clipboard will only store the last item that was “Copied” or “Cut”.
In other words, when you copy or cut an item to the Clipboard, the data that was previously stored in the Clipboard was over-written by the newly-copied or cut data.
There are several great third-party Clipboard tools that will force the Clipboard to store multiple items, and some of them are quite good.
However, Windows 10 and Windows 11 have a “Clipboard History” tool that allows the Clipboard to store multiple items that can be “pasted” at any time with a simple keystroke combination.