Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Most Windows users know how important it is to always have a recent backup on hand in case their PC’s hard drive or SSD goes south on them or some other disaster strikes.
Well, truth be told, it’s just as important to keep the hard drive or SSD in your Mac backed up as well.
Have you ever been reading something on the Internet and encountered a word or phrase you wanted to learn more about?
If so, you probably did something like this to do a web search on that term: [Read more…]
If you’ve been using the Internet for a while, chances are you’ve had trouble getting your computer or a mobile device to make or keep a working Internet connection at some point in the past.
While they can be quite irritating, many Internet connection problems can be fixed with a simple reboot procedure.
It might take you a few minutes to reboot all of your Internet-related devices, but it’s a simple procedure that will fix most any transient glitch that happens to afflict your local network. Here’s how to do it the right way: [Read more…]
By now you probably know that Facebook accounts are getting cloned by scammers right and left these days.
Luckily, having a scammer clone your account isn’t as bad as having someone hack into it, but it’s still bad – especially for the people on your friends list.
In case you’re unfamiliar with account cloning, it’s where a scammer creates a completely new Facebook account in your name and populates it with photos and personal information they’ve copied from your real account.
They then use the new fake account to send friend requests to all the people on your real account’s friends list. [Read more…]
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Modern personal computers are amazing machines.
They allow us to do things in minutes that once took hours or days as well as many other things that couldn’t be done at all in times past.
But even with all their awesome power and capabilities, computers are no fun to use when they’re running slowly and freezing up at random times.
Today I’m going to discuss a few things you can do to help speed up a sluggish PC and hopefully avoid having to deal with erratic system performance.
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