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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Skylight 10 inch WiFi Digital Picture Frame.
Do you have tons of cherished photos on your phone or computer? This little gem will display thousands of them as a slideshow right alongside your regular printed photos.
Click here to check out the Skylight 10 inch WiFi Digital Picture Frame 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 misty morning view of the Virginia Creeper Trail in rural Washington County, Virginia. This was taken just a short distance from the river bridge in Alvarado, on the Abingdon side of the trail. 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.
All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.
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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.
Good luck!
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Question from Lawrence: Hi, Rick. I’m hoping you can answer a question for me about hard drives.
I have an older Seagate STHN2000400 2TB external hard drive that I used for several years to store photos and other files from my old MacBook. Well that MacBook finally died and I replaced it with this MacBook Pro.
The problem I’m having is the MacBook Pro won’t work with the Seagate drive because there’s no connector on the laptop that will accept the old-style USB plug on the drive cable.
If at all possible I’d like to keep using this drive with the new MacBook Pro because it contains thousands of photos that don’t exist anywhere else.
Is there any way I can use this drive with the new laptop? Maybe some kind of adapter? [Read more…]
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If you have a broadband Internet connection you probably use a router to share that connection among multiple computers and mobile devices.
I frequently receive emails from folks asking if I think they need to replace their aging routers, and I usually answer them by asking a few questions of my own: [Read more…]
Technology growth inside organizations happens through accumulation rather than singular transformation. New tools, platforms, users, and integrations arrive gradually, often in response to immediate operational needs.
As such, this layered expansion changes how systems behave, how data moves, and how failures propagate. Managing growth requires attention to structure, dependencies, and oversight rather than focusing solely on functionality or speed of deployment. [Read more…]