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Question from Bobby: Per your suggestion, I recently bought an inexpensive 250GB SSD to replace the hard drive in an older Acer laptop.
And you were right – the speed increase is astounding! Thanks for the info!
As I was installing the SSD I noticed how much larger it is than the 256GB SD card that’s inside my phone.
Why is the SSD so much larger than the SD card when they both hold roughly the same amount of data?
Question from Gabby H.: Rick, I made a really stupid mistake and I’m hoping you can help me out of a jam.
I’m not a pro photographer or anything, but I do love taking pictures, and I take a lot of them.
I use my trusty Canon Powershot camera with two SD cards (I swap them out when the first one becomes full).
What happened is I accidentally formatted the wrong card and wiped out a ton of pictures that I really want to keep. Is there any way to get those pictures back?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Kelsey W.: I bought my wife a brand new Pentax K-50 camera back in 2014 and now she’s having a problem with it.
After she first got the camera she used it almost every day for a couple of months, then she had a stroke and was unable to use it for quite some time.
Her recovery from the stroke was long and difficult, but she is now finally able to resume some of her most loved activities, including taking pictures.
The problem is the camera doesn’t work now. When she turns it on it says there’s no memory card. But there is one and it’s inside the camera.
I read the manual and it said to format the SD card, but every time I try to format it the “no memory card” error pops up.
It’s hard to believe this is happening because she was only able to use the camera for a couple of months before she had the stroke.
Do you think the problem is a bad camera or a bad memory card?
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Google’s Nexus 7 is an awesome tablet, but it does have one major drawback: the lack of an SD card slot. But that doesn’t mean you can’t transfer files from other devices onto it using an SD card!
In this post I’m going to explain how you can easily use an SD card to copy files onto your Nexus 7. And while this solution isn’t free, it won’t cost you an arm and a leg either.
First, start with the following:
1 – Purchase an inexpensive OTG USB cable. You can buy these locally at most any electronics store, but this one from Amazon is dirt cheap and it works quite well.
2 – Purchase a small, inexpensive card reader. Most any of them will do, but this one from Amazon is also dirt cheap and works well. [Read more…]