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These days it seems like we’re always needing to find a replacement charger for our phones because they’re so easy to lose, and they “tear up” so often.
The next time you find yourself in need of a new charger, keep in mind that you have several options.
Question from Gloria: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me find a solution to a problem we’re having with my husband’s iPad.
He recently started using Facebook to keep in touch with the grandkids and some of our other family members.
The problem is he’s completely deaf and he can’t hear the notification alerts when someone sends him a message on the iPad.
Is there any way to have it light up with every new notification?
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Do you have some favorite apps and games on your Android device that you’d love to run at full screen on your laptop or desktop computer?
Well, thanks to a fantastic Android emulator called BlueStacks, you can!
BlueStacks will allow you to run thousands of popular Android apps and games right on your Mac or Windows PC. [Read more…]
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Question from Melanie: My dad just bought a new iPhone 12 Pro and gave me his year-old iPhone 11.
I’ve had several iPhones in the past and it seems like they all charged a lot faster than this one. It seems like it takes forever!
My question is how can I get this phone to charge faster? [Read more…]
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One of the great things about modern smartphones and tablets is their ability to run apps that perform a wide variety of useful tasks.
If you can think of something for your device to do on your behalf, there is probably an app for it.
In reality, smartphones and tablets are in fact tiny computers, and the apps they run are actually computer programs, and there’s a downside to that…
Any device that can run a computer program is subject to being attacked by hackers. [Read more…]