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Question from Rod: My friend and I were discussing the advancements that have been made in technology when an interesting question came to mind.
Are the fastest hard drives made today still slower than the slowest SSDs?
I say no, but my friend says yes. [Read more…]
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There’s a very dangerous scam going full force right now that puts every penny in your bank account at immediate risk.
Scammers have been installing skimming devices on the card readers that are built into ATMs for years, and now they have branched out to the card readers on gas pumps.
Truth be told, there are probably skimmers in use on some of the gas pumps in your own town at this very minute. [Read more…]
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Question from Tina: Our church hosted a gospel music festival this past weekend and I videoed the performances of eight groups, each of which sang several songs each.
There was a considerable gap between the performances so I stopped recording after each group had finished singing their last song.
That left me with eight relatively short videos instead of just long one.
How can I combine all of those short videos to make one long video? [Read more…]
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If you’ve been on Facebook for a while you have probably uploaded lots of photos and posted countless status updates to your Timeline.
If so, you might be wondering if it’s possible to download all of those pics and updates to your local computer.
Well, it is, and it’s quite easy to do. [Read more…]
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If you’ve been using Microsoft Windows for a while you probably know that deleting a file doesn’t really remove it from the system.
Instead, it’s actually moved to a special folder called the Recycle Bin.
That’s generally a good thing because we all occasionally delete a file by mistake or wish we hadn’t deleted a file at some later point in time.
Having our deleted files go into the Recycle Bin makes it easy to restore one of them to it’s original folder in either of the above-mentioned cases.
But unfortunately some files can become problematic if we allow them to sit idly in the Recycle Bin.