Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Do you use the same computer for both work and home use?
If so, keeping those activities isolated from one another could help prevent confusion and perhaps even embarrassment in the event that the two were to somehow become entangled with one another.
Luckily, it’s very easy to keep your work and home computing activities completely isolated from one another. All you have to do is create a new user account to sign into while you’re working. [Read more…]
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Do you have a laptop or desktop PC that you use exclusively for visiting websites, checking Gmail, Facebooking, watching YouTube videos or most any other Internet-based activity?
If the answer to the above question is yes, did you know that you would almost certainly enjoy a better user experience by running Linux on your PC instead of Windows?
Well, it’s true, and here are the reasons why: [Read more…]
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Question from Marie: I have a two year old all-in-one Windows PC and its screen has just gone out.
This computer runs well and it has all my files on it so I’d like to keep using it if I can.
I’d really prefer a larger screen if that’s a viable option.
Is it possible to connect an external monitor to an all-in-one computer or will I need to just have the bad screen replaced? [Read more…]
Question from Kevin: Can you settle an argument between me an my cousin?
I told him that smart phones are really just small computers that are designed to make phone calls.
He said that since you can’t install programs on them or hook them to printers and stuff they can’t really be considered computers.
I think I’m right, but so does he. In your opinion, which one of us is right? [Read more…]
Question from Ellen: I need to purchase a new laptop. What are your thoughts on an SSD drive vs a regular hard drive?
Costco has two HP computers going on sale both with 12GB of memory. Both come with an Intel i5 CPU.
The difference between the two machines is the first one comes with a 512GB SSD and the other one comes with a 1TB hard drive.
They both are coming with Windows 11 (which I’m not thrilled about).
Which drive do you recommend? [Read more…]