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As you probably know, every new generation of laptops seems to be thinner than the one before it.
While being thin is good with laptops, it also results in a few downsides.
One of the most important of those downsides is the lack of ports available for plugging external devices into the machine.
Luckily there’s a simple solution to this lack of available ports…
“Privacy Warnings” of one type or another have been making the rounds on Facebook ever since the site first came into existence.
While most of those warnings range from completely worthless to downright malicious, a few of them actually have some merit.
Privacy is indeed a serious concern on Facebook, but many folks understandably attempt to attack the problem from the wrong angle.
Question from Elizabeth: I have a question for you, Rick.
I bought my daughter her first phone (it’s an iPhone) and she loves watching videos on it.
The problem is she’s hearing impaired and she cannot make out a lot of the dialog that’s spoken in the videos.
I know that lots of the videos available online are closed captioned, but I don’t know how to turn “Closed Captioning” on.
Can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]
Truth be told, modern home computers are generally pretty reliable.
In fact, most of the laptops and desktop computers that are sold today will still be working fine when software advances eventually make their hardware components obsolete.
But that being said, some machines will inevitably end up needing some type of covered repair before the warranty expires.
And guess what? Yours could well be one of them.
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Question from Chris: My family has two laptops and a desktop computer, all of which need more RAM. How can I find out which type of RAM to buy for each computer?
I checked online and there’s DDR, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, DIMMs, SODIMMS, etc. and they all seem to operate at different speeds. It’s all so confusing! [Read more…]