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Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
Are you thinking about starting a blog to share your thoughts and experiences with the world?
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…]
Question from Cindy H.: Hi Rick! I so love your tips! I have a question for you.
My boyfriend is in the Army and he’s currently stationed in Germany.
Is there a way to turn on Facebook Chat just for him so that my other Facebook friends won’t bother me during our nightly chats?
I have an Acer All-In-One computer with Windows 10 on it.
Thanks a lot!!
Rick’s answer: Yes Cindy, there is. And it’s really easy to do. just follow the steps below: [Read more…]
One of my biggest pet peeves is audio that starts blaring from my computer’s speakers just as soon as I visit a web page.
It makes no difference whether its coming from an ad, a cute video or simple background music, if it starts playing on its own, I don’t like it.
In fact, I dislike it so much I immediately hit my browser’s “Back” button when music or some other sound starts playing just as soon as the page loads unless I REALLY want to view the content on the page. [Read more…]
I have often wondered why so many companies and individuals continue to pay big bucks for Microsoft Office when there are a number of outstanding free alternatives to choose from.
I haven’t owned a current version of either Microsoft Word or Excel for over a decade, and the free software on my PC can read and write those files just fine.
I have used Apache OpenOffice for some time and highly recommend it, but I recently downloaded and began testing Kingsoft Office. So far I find myself very impressed. Here’s why: [Read more…]