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Question from Elaine: Hi Rick. I’m hoping you can help me.
I joined your Rick’s Tech Tips group on Facebook a couple of months ago to make sure I didn’t miss any of your posts.
I just found out however that I’m not being notified every time you publish a new post (and I want to be!).
How can I fix this so I can see all of your posts?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Guess what? It’s almost time for the kids to head back to school for the new year!
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me like their summer vacation gets shorter every year – and this year’s is just about gone.
That means it’s time to start shopping for some new clothes as well as a bushel of school supplies like spiral notebooks, pencils, glue sticks and sanitary wipes.
But the really serious shopping will be for the tech items the older kids will need. You know, the laptop and other goodies that are pretty much required these days.
With that in mind, here are five suggestions to help you get started… [Read more…]
With the federal government spending trillions of dollars each and every year, wouldn’t you expect our most critical government agencies to be using the latest technology?
Well here’s a news flash for you: They don’t.
According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), some of the government’s most important tasks are still being completed using computer equipment and software that was developed as far back as the 1950’s.
If you’re thinking that tasks being completed using such outdated equipment can’t be all that important, consider this quote from the GAO report: [Read more…]
Hello again everyone. I hope you all had a great week!
Technology is advancing at breakneck speeds these days, and I believe we’re on the verge of seeing some truly amazing breakthroughs in the tech world before 2016 comes to an end.
With that in mind, here are a few predictions:
1 – Larger and faster solid state drives (SSDs) will render traditional spinning hard drives obsolete. In fact, SSDs that store more data than a typical hard drive are already here, but as of now they are extremely expensive. But that will change, and relatively soon.
Thanks to new technologies for producing non-volatile memory, manufacturers will soon start selling SSDs with speeds that approach the blistering speed of RAM while storing dozens of terabytes of data. Look for them to start showing up by the end of the year. [Read more…]