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ATTN Bloggers: Contextual ads service Chitika has shut down

Posted on April 18, 2019

If you’re a blogger, you’re probably familiar with Chitika.

If you aren’t familiar with them, they’re very similar to Google’s popular Adsense contextual ad service.

In fact, Chitika is where many bloggers who were turned down for admission to the Adsense program (or got booted from it) ended up turning to earn revenue from their blogs.

Although Chitika never really gained a lot of traction against the ultra-popular Adsense, they did serve as a vital source of income for quite a few bloggers who were unable to take advantage of the Adsense program for whatever reason.

If you currently have Chitika ads running on your blog(s), I have some bad news for you: The service has been shut down, effective immediately.

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Windows 10 users no longer have to ‘Eject’ removable drives before disconnecting them

Posted on April 8, 2019

If you’re a Windows user you’re probably very familiar with the need to “Eject” your removable drives before disconnecting them from your PC.

In the past Microsoft has always cached the data written to removable media to make the system run a little faster.

That meant we had to “Eject” a removable drive before disconnecting it from the PC to prevent losing any cached, but unwritten data and possibly corrupting the drive’s file system.

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If you have a Smart TV, get ready to see targeted ads like the ones that follow you around the web.

Posted on March 20, 2019

Have you ever looked at an item on an online shopping site and then seen an ad for the very same item show up on the next website you visited?

Or perhaps you’ve done a web search on a topic only to see ads for items related to that topic follow you around the web from site to site?

Those creepy “follow me around” ads are officially called “targeted ads”, and they’re extremely effective at getting people to buy the products they’re hawking.

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If you own an HP laptop its battery might have been recalled due to a fire hazard.

Posted on March 19, 2019

In January 2018 HP issued a recall notice for 150,000 defective laptop batteries that were at risk of over-heating and catching fire.

Now, just as that particular recall was winding down the company has been forced to add 78,500 additional batteries to the recall list.

Here’s a complete list of the laptops what were sold with defective batteries: [Read more…]

Yes, you do need to update your Chrome browser right now!

Posted on March 12, 2019

Several people have messaged me this morning asking if the viral notice to update their Chrome browser to the latest version is real or a hoax.

Well, as you know, hoaxes abound on Facebook, but this isn’t one of them.

If you haven’t done so already, you really do need to install the latest update for Chrome in order to prevent hackers from exploiting a very dangerous security flaw.

And you need to install this update right now because the flaw is actively being exploited as we speak!

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