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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Lenovo V15 High-Performance 15.6″ Business Laptop.
This is an excellent all-around, general purpose laptop. It comes with a powerful Intel Core i7 CPU, tons of RAM, 1TB of super-fast SSD storage and Windows 11 Pro. Awesome machine for the money!
Click here to check out the Lenovo V15 High-Performance 15.6″ Business Laptop at Amazon.
Today’s POTD features a beautiful autumn scene from the Smoky Mountains region of North Carolina. This was taken from one of the many overlooks on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I hope you like it.
By the way, if you 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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August’s winner will receive this fantastic Aura Carver 10.1 Inch HD WiFi Digital Picture Frame.
Like most people these days, you probably have hundreds, and possibly even thousands of great photos that you’d like to display in your home. With this little gem you’ll probably be able to display ALL of them!
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The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on August 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.
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I’ve been receiving questions from folks who are confused about the terms Real-Time and On-Demand in regards to antivirus protection, so I thought it might be helpful to explain the difference between them here.
Both real-time and on-demand antivirus protection are important for keeping your computer free of viruses and other forms of malware, but while they are closely-related, they operate in very different ways. [Read more…]
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Question from Barbara: I recently learned that every email I send with my iPhone includes a line that says “Sent from my iPhone”.
There are times when I’d rather not tip off the recipient that I sent their email using my phone.
Is there any way to remove the “Sent from my iPhone” message from my outgoing emails? [Read more…]
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Do you do a lot of typing on your smartphone’s virtual keyboard?
If so, you surely know how difficult it can be trying to tap the correct letters and select the proper punctuation marks.
One tip that can really save you a lot of time when typing on your phone is skipping the period at the end of a sentence and pressing the space bar twice instead.
Pressing the space bar twice saves time in the following ways: [Read more…]