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Question from Travis: I’ve been wanting to build a gaming PC for a while and I’ve finally saved enough money to build one as long as I can keep the cost of the CPU and motherboard to around $400 total.
I’ve found several combos in that price range but I’m most interested in this Intel Core i5 CPU and ASUS ROG motherboard.
Do you think these will make a good gaming computer if I install 16GB of RAM and a good video card?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Well, another week, and yet another major successful hack.
This time the victim is Sonic Drive-In Restaurants (or more accurately, their customers).
Sonic has now confirmed a recent Krebs on Security report that their restaurants’ credit card processing system has been hacked and potentially millions of customers’ credit and debit card information has been stolen.
What’s more, it’s already been confirmed that the stolen credit/debit card info is actively being sold on the black market as we speak. [Read more…]
Question from Ariela F: I read your post that explains how to download pictures from a website by clicking them and dragging them to the desktop.
I love that trick. It worked perfectly for the first few days but now I’m having a problem with it.
All of a sudden my computer has started creating a new file on the desktop called Thumbs.db every time I download a picture onto it. I always delete it but it just comes right back the next time I download another picture.
How can I prevent that Thumbs.db file from coming back every time I download a picture? I hate seeing it there because it’s really distracting!
My laptop has Windows 10 on it if that makes any difference. I hope you can help me.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
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Or perhaps you’d like to start one to supplement your retirement income?
Whatever your reason for wanting to create a new blog, there’s a little secret that will allow you to purchase your new blog’s domain name from Godaddy for just 99 cents! [Read more…]
Serious “gamers” are always thirsting for the latest, greatest and fastest gaming PC money can buy. Well, I just found it.
Acer has released the fastest, most powerful and (possibly) the largest gaming laptop ever built.
Simply put, the Acer Predator 21 X Gaming Laptop is almost beyond belief.
This thing packs a punch that would knock out all but the most powerful desktop gaming computers, and the price tag reflects it: roughly 9 grand at the time of this writing!
But check out everything you’ll get for that 9 grand: [Read more…]