Tech Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Are you expecting to have guests staying at your home at any time during the holiday season?
If so, it’s possible that one or more of them might ask to borrow your computer to check their email, get on Facebook, or do whatever it is they enjoy doing online.
There’s really nothing wrong with allowing a visitor to use your computer, but there are a few things you might want to do before your guests arrive: [Read more…]
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Today’s Daily Deal features the awesome CyberPower 1500VA/900W PFC Sinewave UPS.
I consider this to be the best consumer-grade battery backup/UPS device on the market today.
Now that we’re heading into winter most of us can expect occasional power outages and flaky power grids.
This powerful UPS will protect your sensitive electronic devices from transient power fluctuations and keep your computer powered up while your neighbors are staring at a black screen!
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I receive hundreds of tech questions every week and they tend to vary quite a bit. But some topics just seem to come up time and again.
One of those recurring topics involves the potential danger of certain people discovering your IP address.
While I usually don’t worry all that much about folks discovering my IP address, there are times when it does pay to keep it a secret if at all possible. [Read more…]
Do you have a laptop or desktop computer with a built-in DVD burner that no longer works?
Or have you purchased a new laptop or ultrabook that doesn’t have a built-in optical drive at all?
If you never use CDs or DVDs and you don’t think you’ll be needing to in the future, you can easily get by without a working optical drive.
But what if you do need one because you have a stack of CDs you want to listen to while you work?
Or perhaps you have a stack of DVDs crammed full of old family photos that you scanned back in the day?
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