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If you enjoy getting great deals on tech items you should check out TigerDirect’s Daily Deal page every day. The items they offer there are usually overstock, closeout or refurbished items (the refurbs are always clearly marked as such), and it’s almost always great stuff!
These deals are only good for that day, and usually only for a few hours since they tend to sell out rather quickly. [Read more…]
Letting other Dropbox users upload files to your Dropbox account is easy, but what about folks who don’t have a Dropbox account of their own?
Well, now there’s a free app called Dbinbox that lets you easily allow anyone equipped with a web browser to upload files directly into a special folder in your Dropbox account!
Setting up Dbinbox is easy. Here’s how: [Read more…]
As I explained in this post, Ubuntu Linux is definitely worthy of consideration as a replacement operating system should you ever decide to ditch Microsoft Windows, but it does have a few quirks. Most of those quirks can easily be mitigated however.
One example is the way Ubuntu insists on placing every program window you open in the top left-hand corner of the screen and leaving it there. But there is a simple way to break those windows free of their constraints and move them to the center of the screen (a location that makes infinitely more sense in my opinion). Here’s how: [Read more…]
Linux is one of the most secure operating systems in use today, and one of the things that makes it so secure is its insistence that you enter a password before doing anything that can possibly cause harm to your system.
But if you’re the only person who has access to your computer, you really don’t need to enter a password just to load the operating system.
If you use Ubuntu (the most popular Linux distro), you can easily set it to bypass the login screen and boot directly to the Desktop. Here’s how: [Read more…]
Millions of computers are infected by viruses and other forms of malware every month, and a large percentage of those infections occur as the result of clicking on a bad link. That’s why I’ve written several times in the past about the importance of avoiding links that will take you to an unfamiliar website.
But there’s a problem. With so many people using shortened URLs on Facebook and Twitter, it seems all but impossible to determine where a link will take you without clicking on it first. Well, now there is an easy way to determine exactly where a shortened link will take you, and even get a quick “opinion” from security experts about just how safe the landing page is! [Read more…]