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Today’s Daily Deal: Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet

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Today’s Daily Deal features what I consider to be the very best tablet you can buy for a small child.

This Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet is built for the rough and tumble way a child will use it, yet it’s a full-featured and very powerful tablet.

Make no mistake about it, although it was designed for kids, this tablet is no toy.

If you’ve been looking for a rugged, yet powerful tablet for your child, this is the one I recommend.

Click here to read more about the Fire HD 8 Kids Edition Tablet at Amazon.

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This inexpensive device lets you log into any Windows 10 PC with a touch of your finger!

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Would you enjoy the convenience of logging into your Windows 10 laptop or desktop computer with a quick touch of your finger?

Windows 10 now has a feature called Windows 10 Hello that adds fingerprint login capability to computers running Windows 10.

But there’s a problem: Not every computer running Windows 10 has a fingerprint reader.

Well, now you can get an inexpensive fingerprint reader (less than $30 at the time of this writing) that adds fingerprint recognition and login capability to any PC running the latest version of Windows 10. [Read more…]

Avoid Spam by creating a ‘Junk’ email address

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stop-spamIf you’ve been using the Internet for more than a week you probably recognizes the following scenario…

You sign up to receive a free newsletter or to take advantage of a great offer, then before you know it your email inbox is getting stuffed chock full of spam, phishing emails and various other kinds of junk.

Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. It happens to all of us.

The fact is, once you use your email address to sign up for most anything (my own tech newsletter NOT included), it ends up on every junk mail list known to mankind.

The junk starts flowing in like water out of a fire hose, and you’ll find that it soon becomes a chore just wading through your new emails every morning!

But there is an easy way to avoid this scenario… [Read more…]

How to boot Windows into ‘Safe Mode’

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safe-modeIf you use a Windows PC there will likely come a time when you need to start up Windows in Safe Mode for trouble-shooting purposes.

Which brings up a question you might be asking…

What is Safe Mode? 

When you boot up Windows into Safe Mode only the bare essentials of the operating system are loaded.

Only the system’s basic hardware drivers are loaded, and no programs listed in the Startup folder are allowed to load and run.

In a nutshell, Safe Mode makes it much easier to troubleshoot and fix software problems such as bad drivers, corrupted Windows files, really viruses and a lot more.

How to boot Windows into Safe Mode [Read more…]

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