Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
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…]
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…]
Yahoo Mail is the second most used email service on the web, and it’s also one of the oldest.
But if you use Yahoo Mail you’re probably painfully aware of all the troubles the service and its users have endured in recent times.
Those issues have prompted a lot of users to switch from Yahoo to a different email service.
I’ve received several emails of late asking me how to forward Yahoo Mail to another email account, so I thought it might be a good idea to just write a how-to post explaining the procedure. [Read more…]
By default, when you receive a notification on Facebook your speakers will make a beeping sound.
That’s fine if you’re alone and you don’t receive all that many notifications, but if you’re at work or in a public place all those ‘beeps’ can really get annoying to the people around you.
Even worse, all that beeping can get on your own nerves as well, especially if you tend to receive lots of notifications throughout the day.
Luckily, it’s quite easy to disable beeping notifications on Facebook. Just follow the steps below: [Read more…]
It’s no secret that using multiple monitors with your computer greatly enhances the user experience and boosts productivity.
For example, you can use your primary display for your essential tasks while your email and other tangential apps are running on one or more side monitors where they are out of the way, yet always in view and ready to use when you need them.
The biggest drawbacks to installing additional monitors have always been the need to have multiple video ports on your PC and the complexity involved with setting everything up in Windows or OS X. But thanks to the wonderful world of USB, that is no longer the case. [Read more…]