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The cameras built into modern smart phones and tablets are getting better all the time, and many of those devices already take photos that are at least as good as those taken with consumer-grade point-and-shoot cameras.
Now that most of us are carrying such capable cameras around with us 24/7, doesn’t it make sense to have a great photo editing app on our devices as well? [Read more…]
Question from Marie P.: I have a 7 year old Sony 55-Inch Sony LCD TV that I like better than any TV I’ve ever owned.
The 55 inch size is just perfect for my living room, but now I can’t use it because it’s torn up.
My kids were horsing around and knocked it to the floor and now there’s a long crack across the screen.
The TV will turn on but there’s no picture. The screen just stays black. I can hear the sound though.
My question is do you think it would be cost effective to have this TV repaired or should I just grit my teeth and buy a new one?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Accidentally getting some files permanently deleted from the computer’s Recycle Bin is something that happens to everyone from time to time.
The consequences can be disastrous if the lost files are very important like a video you’ve spent hours editing, a long Word file, a business-related PDF, or even some old family photos.
And as you can imagine, emptying all the files from the Recycle Bin makes things even worse!
If you don’t have any luck finding the missing files in the Recycle Bin and you don’t have it backed up somewhere, you can always recover deleted files using remo recover.
The proliferation of smartphones has transformed our world in a multitude of ways, and most of them are generally for the better.
However, there is one huge downside to smartphones that keeps rearing its ugly head from time to time…
One of the most frequently asked questions here at Rick’s Daily Tips is how much RAM a particular version of Windows will support.
After receiving another such question this morning, I thought it might be worthwhile to put that info in a blog post.
Just scroll through the list below until you find the Windows version that’s running on your machine.