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Q&A: How do I change the screen resolution in Windows 8?

Posted on January 22, 2014

Question from Allie R.: Rick, I just bought a new monitor for my Dell Inspiron 660s computer with Windows 8 (which I am SOOOO confused about). I bought a new monitor and hooked it up but the text is so small I have trouble reading it.

My question is how do I change the screen resolution to make everything look bigger?

On my old computer with Windows Vista all I had to do was right-click on the background and I could change the screen resolution, but I can’t figure out how to do it with Windows 8. Can you help me?

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Facebook to show fewer text-only posts from Pages in fans’ newsfeeds

Posted on January 22, 2014

Facebook announced yesterday that they plan to start placing fewer text-only posts from Facebook pages into the newsfeeds of the users who have “Liked” the pages.

This change will effectively limit the reach of a given page’s posts even further than the already diminished reach due to the rather unpopular EdgeRank algorithm. [Read more…]

LogMeIn has stopped offering free accounts

Posted on January 22, 2014

If you use the free version of LogMeIn, you’ll have to start paying if you want to keep using it. The popular remote desktop service has now dropped the free access plan that was so popular for so long.

Existing users of LogMeIn Free have 7 days to sign up and pay a discounted yearly fee that starts at $49, but new customers will be required to pay $99 a year.

If you’d rather not pay to use a remote desktop service, there are still several options available to you. Just click the links below to check them out and see what will work best for you: [Read more…]

How to restore the vertical scroll bar arrows in Google Chrome

Posted on January 21, 2014

Have you ever noticed the little arrows at the top and bottom of your web browser’s vertical scroll bar? Clicking and holding one of those arrows will cause the current web page to scroll up or down, but if you don’t use them you might not even realize they are there.

But if you do use the scroll arrows, you’d probably feel lost without them.

Well guess what? If you update Google Chrome to version 32 you’ll discover that the scroll arrows have been removed. [Read more…]

Q&A: Can I use a regular USB keyboard with my Surface RT?

Posted on January 21, 2014

Question from Hannah G.: I have a Surface RTand I’ve been wanting to buy a keyboard for it, but they’re a little pricey. And they don’t look all that well made either.

I noticed today that the RT has a full size USB port. Can I just buy a cheap USB keyboard that’s made for a PC and plug it into it?

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