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Q&A: How can I watch a DVD on Windows 10?

Posted on November 5, 2019

Question from Shannon: I’m a movie buff and I have a large collection of movies on DVD.

I have a DVD player in every room in my house but I also love watching them on my computer while taking short breaks from my work (I’m self-employed and I work from a home office).

The problem is I could watch a DVD with Windows Media Player on my old computer but it won’t play DVDs on my new one.

Is it not possible to watch DVDs with Windows 10? Surely you can, but how?

This is very frustrating so I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

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ATTN Bloggers: You need to stop using the ‘Broken Link Checker’ plugin on your WordPress blog immediately!

Posted on November 5, 2019

If you’re a blogger you probably know how important it is to keep your blog free of broken links.

And if you do, there’s a good chance that you have a plugin titled “Broken Link Checker” installed on your WordPress blog.

If so, you need to remove it right away!

It’s recently been discovered that this plugin is compromised by an extremely dangerous XSS (Cross Site Scripting) vulnerability.

I won’t go into the details of this critical security flaw here, but if you’re interested in why it’s do dangerous you can get all the info right here.

For now, suffice it to say that having this plugin installed leaves your blog wide open to hackers.

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Review: Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free

Posted on November 4, 2019

I’ve been a huge fan of Amazon’s growing line of Fire tablets since day one. I truly believe these are the best tablets you can buy for the same money.

I recently had the opportunity to check out the new Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free , and in my opinion it’s one of the best tablet values on the market.

Although it only costs about half the price of the cheapest iPad model, this new tablet from Amazon offers as much or more in terms of features and utility.

Just take a look at the hardware: [Read more…]

How to limit the number of Post Revisions that WordPress will save for your posts and pages

Posted on November 2, 2019

If you have a blog that runs on WordPress you’ve probably noticed how every time you make a change to a post or page WordPress creates a copy of the previous version and stores it in the WordPress database.

These copies are called “Post Revisions”, and they can come in real handy when you want to revert back to an older version of a post. Simply select the version you want to revert to and the WordPress editor will make it happen.

But there’s a problem with these Post Revisions. Every time one is created it basically creates a new copy of the post you’re working on and stores it in the WordPress database. [Read more…]

Q&A: How do I remove the hard drive from my laptop?

Posted on November 1, 2019

Question from Ethan K.: Hi Rick. My uncle gave me his old HP Pavilion dv4 1123us laptop because the hard drive died.

I have a hard drive to replace it with but I can’t get the old hard drive to come out of the laptop. I removed all the screws that hold the hard drive in place, but one side of it refuses to budge.

Is there another screw that I’m not seeing? I’d really appreciate any help you can give me.

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