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Don’t you hate it when you have several Chrome tabs open and all of a sudden one of them starts playing a video ad at full volume?
I sure do because those stealthy (and irritating) video ads that pop up out of nowhere are often startling and almost always difficult to track down and pause.
Well, thankfully auto-playing Flash ads are now a thing of the past in Chrome (or at least they soon will be on your machine). [Read more…]
Sprint is now offering a full year of free cellular service to any DirecTV customer who switches from AT&T to Sprint between August 28 and September 30, 2015.
Now that AT&T has merged with DirecTV, Sprint is hoping to lure as many AT&T customers over to their side as they possibly can to combat the newly announced AT&T/DirecTV bundles.
The free service that Sprint is offering to DirecTV customers includes unlimited talk, unlimited text and 2 GB of data per line on up to five lines, all while on the Sprint network. [Read more…]
It’s hard to believe, but the operating system that we all tend to either love or hate is now 30 years old.
Microsoft released Windows 1.0 way back in 1985, and now 30 years later Windows is still the 800 pound gorilla of the computer world. [Read more…]
Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus has earned a reputation for taking amazing photos with its integrated iSight camera, but some of the phones have been found to capture blurry images.
The problem is caused by a defective component in some of the iSight camera modules that were installed on phones sold between September 2014 and January 2015.
If your iPhone 6 Plus is producing blurry photos, enter its serial number on this page to see if it qualifies for a free replacement iSight camera module. If it does, you’ll find information on that page explaining how to go about having your phone serviced.
Many of are used to upgrading to a new mobile phone every couple of years and receiving the new phone either for free or at a greatly reduced price. But if you are a Verizon customer, that perk is about to come to an end.
The major cell carriers have traditionally offered their customers a selection of subsidized phones in exchange for having them sign on to two year contracts. If a customer subsequently canceled their contract before the two years was up, they would have to pay for the phone by coughing up a huge Early Termination Fee. [Read more…]