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4 tips for successfully updating your motherboard’s UEFI BIOS firmware

Posted on March 30, 2018

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…]

Save time by posting Tweets from your phone via a text message

Posted on March 23, 2018

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…]

How to prevent others from recovering your files from a formatted drive

Posted on March 2, 2018

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…]

How to snag items on ebay for $1 or less

Posted on February 20, 2018

Every day thousands of ebay auctions end without receiving a single bid, and many of these auctions are for valuable items that have a starting bid of $1 or less.

Why so low? Because lots of ebay sellers like to start their auctions off with a ridiculously low price with the hope that a bidding war will ensue and drive the price way above the item’s actual value.

Sometimes this strategy works, and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s a gamble, and the sellers know it. That’s why you shouldn’t feel guilty if you end up snagging a $50 item for 50 cents.

How do you track down these super bargains? Well, as luck would have it there is a very cool website for that: [Read more…]