Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
As technology continues to evolve, the realm of mobile connectivity is experiencing a revolutionary shift with the advent of digital SIMs, or eSIMs. The question arises: Is a digital SIM better than a physical SIM card?
In this article, we delve into the intricacies of eSIMs and traditional SIM cards, highlighting their differences, advantages, and drawbacks. [Read more…]
If you’re a blogger you probably depend on email to communicate with your readers, your advertisers and any other folks that you talk to in the course of writing and managing your blog.
And chances are you even use email to deliver an informational newsletter to your subscribers.
If you’ve noticed that many (or even most) of your emails are being ignored, there’s a good chance that your email server has somehow landed in an email blacklist database. [Read more…]
I recently received a message from a reader asking if the “fix-all” programs that keeping popping up in ads on his computer will really help fix the issues he’s having with it.
Here is his message in full, followed by my response… [Read more…]
Question from Bailey: Hi, Rick. I have a bad problem and I need help ASAP.
I was browsing Facebook last night and clicked on a link that caught my attention. As soon as I clicked it my screen went solid blue and the computer froze up completely.
I finally just unplugged it and it booted back up into Windows, but now none of my programs will open. It’s running real slow too.
I’m sure the link I clicked probably put a virus on my system but my Norton antivirus software won’t open so I can’t run a scan.
Is there anything I can do to fix this problem besides just buying a new computer? [Read more…]
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
A while back I wrote a post explaining how you can put your computer on steroids by replacing its hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).
Until fairly recently upgrading to an SSD would have cost you dearly if you wanted to keep (or even increase) your system’s current amount of storage space.
Well, that changed a while back when the prices of 2TB SSDs dropped like a rock.