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Don’t you hate it when you have several Chrome tabs open and all of a sudden one of them starts playing a video ad at full volume?
I sure do because those stealthy (and irritating) video ads that pop up out of nowhere are often startling and almost always difficult to track down and pause.
Well, thankfully auto-playing Flash ads are now a thing of the past in Chrome (or at least they soon will be on your machine). [Read more…]
I can tell you from personal experience that passing the exams to become an A+ Certified Computer Technician is no walk in the park. Although I passed the exams on my first try, I had to prepare for them by reading every A+ training guide I could get my hands on.
But if I had to study for the A+ exams today, I would only need one training package. It’s titled the CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, and it truly includes everything you need in order to pass both of the A+ exams (220-801 & 220-802).
This amazingly comprehensive book contains almost 1,600 pages of PC troubleshooting theory and instructions as well as practical tips for troubleshooting virtually every possible computer hardware and O.S. problem imaginable.
But there’s a lot more to this package than just the book. You’ll also get a virtual media library that includes the following: [Read more…]
Sprint is now offering a full year of free cellular service to any DirecTV customer who switches from AT&T to Sprint between August 28 and September 30, 2015.
Now that AT&T has merged with DirecTV, Sprint is hoping to lure as many AT&T customers over to their side as they possibly can to combat the newly announced AT&T/DirecTV bundles.
The free service that Sprint is offering to DirecTV customers includes unlimited talk, unlimited text and 2 GB of data per line on up to five lines, all while on the Sprint network. [Read more…]
I receive several reader emails each week asking whether I recommend upgrading to Windows 10 or staying with an older version of Windows.
The problem is, that’s a difficult question to answer because we all have different preferences and “tastes” when it comes to computer software. [Read more…]
I review a lot of products on my blogs, and it isn’t often that an item makes me say “WOW!!!”
Well, let me take a few moments to tell you about one that did.
I just finished testing the Coolreall BOX21 Mini Portable Car Jump Starter & Power Bank Set, and let me tell you – it simply amazed me!
I can easily hold this thing in my open hand, yet it packs more than enough power to jump start most any car on the road today. [Read more…]