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My “Pick” for today is this awesome Amazon eero 7 Dual-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 7 Router Kit.
You don’t have to put up with Wi-Fi dead spots or weak, unusable signals in your large home or office.
This three node mesh kit will blanket the entire area with strong Wi-Fi signal.
Click here to check out the Amazon eero 7 Dual-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 7 Router Kit at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a very colorful peacock putting on a very colorful display. 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.
Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).
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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 Kelly: I’m thinking about buying a new Apple MacBook Pro but I need a bit of advice first.
The reviews I’ve read were great, but they said this machine doesn’t have any old-style USB ports, only USB-C.
If I buy this laptop will I have to replace my external hard drive and other USB devices with new ones that have USB-C connections? [Read more…]
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Question from Bill: I have an Acer desktop PC with 4 GB of RAM that I updated to Windows 11 a while back.
When I have all the programs and browser tabs that I normally use open at the same time the Task Manager says there is approximately 1.2 GB of RAM not being used.
I recently bought a brand new Dell desktop with 8 GB of RAM and Windows 11.
When I have the same exact configuration of programs and browser tabs open on the new machine it says there is still less than 2 GB of RAM that’s not being used.
How can this be? [Read more…]
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I often hear from readers how much they hate having to contact “Tech Support” when an issue arises with their computer or one of their other gadgets.
As you probably know, calling Tech Support is usually about as much fun as having a tooth pulled without an injection of Novocain.
Well, truth be told, the Tech Support experience is often intentionally designed to be frustrating because some companies would rather have you resolve the issue on your own instead of utilizing their Support system.
Luckily, there are a few things you can try that just might help you resolve your issue without having to call Tech Support at all: [Read more…]