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WiFi 6 offers several important improvements over the earlier 802.11 b/g/n/ac generations of WiFi technology so I was eager to give this D-Link USB 3.0 AX1800 Dual Band WiFi 6 Adapter a try as soon as I found out it was available.
As a blogger, you know how important it is to have lots of people visiting your blog.
After all, a site that no one ever visits is pretty much useless, especially if you hope to make money with it.
If your blog is new you’ve probably spent some time searching Google for ways to increase the number of visitors you have coming to it on a daily basis.
And if that’s the case, chances are you’ve come across a service called TrafficSwarm.
In this post I will explain how TrafficSwarm works and give you my honest opinion about whether you should use it or not. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you’re probably always on the lookout for opportunities to boost your blog traffic.
After all, more traffic results in more conversions (sales, advertising revenue, email signups, etc.), right?
Well, I recently began researching ways to boost the traffic to RicksDailyTips as well, and one of the tools I stumbled across is a service called 10DollarSoloAds.
This post is a review of my experience with them.
This is now a digital world, and chances are you use multiple devices to communicate with friends and family, watch videos, play games, share photos and any of 100 other digital activities.
Have you ever stopped to think about what would happen if you lost all the precious photos and other files you’ve accumulated on your computer or mobile devices over the years?
Unfortunately, bad things happen, and it pays to be prepared when disaster strikes. After all, hard drives crash and files get accidentally deleted. And yes, it will happen to you if it hasn’t already.
That’s why I’m constantly stressing the need to back up your data on a regular basis.
But the thing is, backups alone aren’t enough. Why? Because backups themselves can get lost or corrupted! What would you do then? [Read more…]
If you’re like most folks these days, you probably take tons of photos with your smart phone, and maybe even a point-and-shoot digicam or DSLR.
If so, you probably know that it’s very easy to make a photo smaller.
All you have to do is load it into your favorite image editor and either crop it or resize it, and the resulting image is almost always as crisp and clear as the original.
But try enlarging a photo instead and you’ll quickly realize that you have a problem. When you resize a photo to make it larger, you typically end up with an image that’s blurry and pixelated.
In short, you generally end up with a mess. [Read more…]