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My “Pick” for today is this super-important FirstSurge FS140 Whole House Surge Protector.
Storm season is now upon us. Are you doing all you can to protect every gadget and appliance in your home from lightning damage?
This little gem will help protect everything that’s connected to the electrical grid in one fell swoop.
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Today’s POTD features a very colorful sunset over farmland in rural Powhatan County, Virginia. I hope you like it.
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This is an easy and very affordable way to add not just one, but two extra screens to your laptop (for three screens total).
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Well, summer is officially here, and that means the long, hot days to come will be spawning plenty of electrical storms.
There’s really nothing you can do to keep the coming storms at bay, but there are several things you can do that would greatly reduce the risk of a lightning strike damaging your expensive computer equipment.
Here are a few tips for protecting your computer from lightning strikes: [Read more…]
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Question from Alvin: I recently retired after working for the same construction company for 43 years.
Now I’d like to take up something new to occupy all this free time that I suddenly have to fill.
I’ve always wanted to learn about computers so I’ve started reading a few tech blogs, and RicksDailyTips is one of them (thanks to my brother Keith for recommending it).
I’m not tech savvy by any stretch (I hope to change that eventually) but I do believe I’m progressing ok for an older dude who still uses a flip phone.
There’s a term that keeps popping up in the articles I read that I just can’t seem to get my head around. Can you tell me what the word “bottleneck” means in regards to computers? [Read more…]
Your Atlanta company started with eight people sharing a handful of laptops, using Google Workspace for email, and calling your tech-savvy employee whenever something broke. It worked fine. You grew to 20 employees with the same basic approach—added more devices, same IT setup, occasional help from that one person who knows computers.
At 30 employees, you started noticing friction. Systems that used to be fast felt sluggish. The informal “ask whoever knows technology” support model created bottlenecks. But nothing was completely broken, so you kept going with the same approach. [Read more…]