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GoPro has become one of the world’s most popular camera brands thanks to their line of amazing action cameras.
Adventurous folks use GoPro gear
To celebrate the passing of 2015, GoPro has put together a short video featuring some of the best action captured by their cameras during the year 2015. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. [Read more…]
Today’s top-selling gaming laptops can hold their own against many of the most powerful desktop PCs. It seems that their CPUs get faster, their RAM gets bigger and their graphics cards get more powerful by the day.
While the fantastic MSI G Series GE72 Apache Pro-003 17.3″ Gaming Laptop isn’t the most powerful gaming laptop your money can buy, it is definitely one of the most powerful laptops you can buy without having to sell the farm or take out a mortgage in order to pay for it.
Although this computer is billed as a “gaming laptop”, it also makes a fantastic general purpose computer or business PC thanks to features like these at such a reasonable price: [Read more…]
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Modern Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports have replaced a number of older data transmission technologies over the years due to its increased speed and dead-simple ease of use.
Nowadays we can buy a wide variety of USB devices such as USB printers, external USB hard drives and USB flash drives that make our day-to-day lives so much easier than they were just a few years ago.
There are currently two generations of USB technology in common use: USB 2.0 and USB 3.0.
USB 3.0 offers a couple of important advantages over the older (yet still widespread) USB 2.0: [Read more…]
In the past, I have typically recommended having automatic updates enabled on Windows machines, for one reason: Protection against recently discovered security threats.
I still believe that to be the best course of action for most Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users.
That being said, a recent string of bad updates have created serious problems on some Windows 10 PCs, prompting me to start recommending that you disable automatic updates on your Windows 10 machine for the time being. [Read more…]
Question from Gracie: The touch screen on my iPhone 6 Plus has started freezing up on me at random times.
There doesn’t seem to be any kind of pattern as to when the issue arises. The screen just stops responding to taps and swipes on occasion. It will usually start working again after a few minutes if I just leave it alone and don’t touch it.
This is really irritating because I can’t even answer a call if it comes in when the screen is froze. Can you tell me how to fix it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]