Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
A few days ago a reader asked me if it’s possible to use a full-size PC keyboard with a Windows tablet. The answer is yes as long as the keyboard supports Bluetooth connectivity.
As I was answering that question it got me to thinking about all the Apple users out there who might have a Bluetooth-enabled Mac keyboard laying around.
As one would imagine, a Mac keyboard should be the perfect keyboard to use with an Apple device running iOS. [Read more…]
I often receive questions about updating the UEFI BIOS firmware on a computer’s motherboard.
Horror stories abound about firmware updates that went bad and bricked the devices so many folks are understandably nervous about attempting to update the BIOS on their own motherboards.
In a nutshell, the UEFI BIOS firmware is a basic set of instructions and settings that inform your CPU about the various hardware components that are inside your PC and how it should interact with them.
If this firmware get’s corrupted somehow one or more of your computer’s hardware devices could fail to operate correctly. [Read more…]
Hey, I have a news flash for you…
If you are a Facebook user, you have been labeled by Facebook as either “Liberal”, “Moderate” or “Conservative” in regards to your political leaning.
And guess what? You have been assigned a “political leaning” even if you NEVER make any posts that are political in nature.
How Facebook determines your political leaning is quite interesting… [Read more…]
If you use Twitter, you probably already know that you can post a tweet from virtually anywhere using your smart phone in conjunction with one of the many Twitter apps that are in use today.
But did you know that you can also tweet from virtually any cell phone just by sending Twitter a text message? Well, you can, and it’s a lot faster than loading your Twitter app!
Setting up your Twitter account to accept tweets from any mobile phone via SMS is very easy. Here’s how: [Read more…]
I’ve written several posts in the past explaining how you can recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your storage devices.
It’s actually quite easy to recover deleted files using a free file recovery program such as Recuva.
But did you know that files can even be recovered from drives that have been formatted? Well, it’s true, and it’s just as easy as recovering files that have been “deleted”. [Read more…]