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Question from Kerrie: I have a MacBook Pro and don’t own a Windows computer.
If I copy files from my MacBook Pro onto a thumb drive will my sisters be able to copy those files from that same thumb drive onto their Windows PCs?
If you’re a blogger you probably know that Google and the other major search engines now take page load times into consideration when ranking web pages in their search results.
In a nutshell, that means all other things being equal, your blog’s pages will rank lower in the search results for a given search query than other similar pages that load faster than yours.
And as you know, that can be a huge problem. [Read more…]
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Question from Stephanie: I need some advice Rick. I’ve done quite a bit of research on video cables and I’m still confused.
I’m getting ready to order a new computer and monitor from Amazon. I’ve already selected the computer and monitor, but now I have to decide on a video cable.
I have the option of using either DVI or HDMI, but I don’t know which I should choose. [Read more…]
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Well, summer is officially here, and that means the long, hot days to come will be spawning plenty of electrical storms.
There’s really nothing you can do to keep the coming storms at bay, but there are several things you can do that would greatly reduce the risk of a lightning strike damaging your expensive computer equipment.
Here are a few tips for protecting your computer from lightning strikes: [Read more…]
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Question from Eric S.: I’m seriously considering taking your advice about installing an SSD in my Lenovo desktop PC just to install my programs on.
I mostly just use Photoshop and Lightroom along with a couple of web browsers.
I’m not really interested in making the SSD the boot drive by installing Windows on it because I don’t feel confident in my ability to get it done correctly.
My question: Is it worth adding an SSD as a second drive just to make my programs load faster? [Read more…]