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If you’re a blogger you’ve probably wondered how your blog looks on different mobile devices and at different screen resolutions.
If so, there’s an easy way to find out right now, in mere seconds. Simply type your blog’s URL into the search box at Sizzy!
Sizzy will automatically load your blog into ten different mobile templates so you can see exactly how your pages and posts will look on both iOS and Android devices and at various screen resolutions.
Every now and then I have a need to combine two or more photos into a single image by arranging them side by side and/or over top of one another.
To get an idea of what I’m talking about, take a look at the image on the right.
It’s actually pretty easy to create a mini-collage like this with most popular image editing programs, but I’ve found a much easier and faster way to do it.
Just fire up your web browser and click over to the wonderful online Combine Images tool from the folks over at QuickPictureTools.com. [Read more…]
By now you probably know that upgrading your computer’s RAM, adding a stand-alone graphics adapter or replacing the hard drive with an SSD can make it run faster and more smoothly.
But if you’ve ever actually shopped for computer parts you probably also know how difficult it can be to determine whether a given part is compatible with your particular computer.
All the info you need to make that determination is available on the Internet (and in many cases right in the product’s item description), but unless you’re very familiar with computer hardware it can be difficult to figure out which info is even relevant to the determination.
Well, Amazon has a handy tool that can help…
I’ve written many times about the habit of some free software download sites bundling unwanted “add-on” software with their downloads.
Of course you can usually “opt out” of downloading the extra software by unchecking a box or two, but it’s very irritating that those boxes are typically checked by default.
Well, I recently received a message from a reader complaining about Adobe’s habit of bundling add-on programs with the downloads on their own site and I thought I should probably post a warning about it.
Question from Tom L.: I bought bought my daughter a Mac mini in November 2014 hoping she could use it when she started college in January.
The salesman told me that the only Mac minis they had in stock came with 4GB of RAM but I could always upgrade the RAM to a greater amount later if it turned out that 4GB wasn’t enough.
Well, it turns out that she does need more RAM now in order to run a program she’ll be using for one of her classes next semester.
The problem is she took the computer into Best Buy for a RAM upgrade and they told her that her model of the Mac mini can’t be upgraded. Is that true? She loves this computer and wants to keep using it if she can.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]