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Speed up your phone by uninstalling this popular, but unnecessary app

Posted on August 1, 2025

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Does your smartphone seem sluggish and slow compared to the way it ran when you first got it?

If so, there is one hugely popular, but quite unnecessary app that could be slowing your phone down to a crawl. And even if it isn’t horribly impacting the speed of your device, it’s probably draining its battery.

Chances are you use this app every single day, even though you don’t really need it and you’ll give up absolutely nothing by removing it.

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Four ‘back to school’ tech recommendations for students

Posted on July 31, 2025

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It’s been a few years (well, a lot of them, truth be told) since this old fellow has seen the inside of a classroom so I can’t claim to be an expert in the field of education.

But I do have a bit of experience with technology and I’ve seen first-hand how its use can affect (and in some cases alter) both the learning process and emotional growth of children.

With that in mind, I have a few ‘back to school’ recommendations for students. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why don’t you charge anything when you help someone?

Posted on July 30, 2025

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Question from Brenda: I think it’s wonderful that you take the time to provide all this great information and help people with their problems.

I’ve noticed that you never ask anyone for money or request any type of payment for helping people and answering their tech questions on your blog.

I believe you really should because your time is valuable and you deserve to be paid for using it to help all of us. Why do you do all this for free? [Read more…]

How to delete your entire Google search history (and prevent Google from collecting it in the future)

Posted on July 29, 2025

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Did you know that Google keeps a record of everything you have ever searched for via the Google search engine?

Well, they do, and unless you have already deleted your Search history at some point in the past it dates all the way back to the very first search you made on Google!

Truth be told, Google has always provided a way to delete your Search history IF you knew where to look. The thing is, it was always very hard to find.

Luckily, Google has now made it a lot easier to delete your Search history.

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Q&A: Will the RAM in my old laptop work in a new one?

Posted on July 28, 2025

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Question from Mike: I know it’s time to buy a new laptop and I’m looking to save as much money as possible.

The machine I’m replacing is a Dell Inspiron 14 5000 that I bought back in January 2015.

Since the old Dell has 16GB of RAM in it I was wondering if it’s possible to buy a new laptop with just 4GB of RAM and then swap the RAM from the Dell into the new laptop?

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