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If you are a Facebook user, you have been labeled by Facebook as either “Liberal”, “Moderate” or “Conservative” in regards to your political leaning.
And guess what? You have been assigned a “political leaning” even if you NEVER make any posts that are political in nature.
How Facebook determines your political leaning is quite interesting… [Read more…]
Does it seem like it takes forever for your PC to boot up or Restart? If so, chances are you have several applications that load automatically every time Windows boots up, and the boot process gets bogged down when several apps try to load at once.
You can (and probably should) prevent some of those applications from loading automatically, and the best way to do that is with a free download that I wrote about a while back called Autoruns. That being said, some programs are indeed worthy of automatic startup, but they don’t have to all start up at once.
Startup Delayer is a free Windows utility that allows you to delay the automatic startup of any or all of your auto-loading applications. Here’s how to download and install Startup Delayer: [Read more…]
Regular readers of this blog know that I love technology, and I always have.
It all started back in the early 1970’s when I began taking old vacuum tube radios and TVs apart to learn how they worked.
By the time that decade drew to a close the tech world had begun to make the move from analog to digital.
Before I knew it I was taking my Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I computer apart and souping it up with modifications of all types. [Read more…]
Question from Sara A.: The screen went bad in my laptop so I’m looking for a new one. I’ve been to all the local stores, and all of laptops they have come with Windows 10.
I’m used to Windows 7 and I’ve heard that Windows 10 is a lot different. If I buy a laptop with Windows 10 on it will I be able to install Windows 7 if I don’t like it? I have the Windows 7 CD that came with my old laptop.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
If you use Twitter, you probably already know that you can post a tweet from virtually anywhere using your smart phone in conjunction with one of the many Twitter apps that are in use today.
But did you know that you can also tweet from virtually any cell phone just by sending Twitter a text message? Well, you can, and it’s a lot faster than loading your Twitter app!
Setting up your Twitter account to accept tweets from any mobile phone via SMS is very easy. Here’s how: [Read more…]